Charles Edward Geyer Jr. will join UPMC Hillman Cancer Center as co-director of its NCI National Clinical Trials Network efforts.Â
Courtney DeVries was named deputy director of WVU Cancer Institute.Â
Ashlee Harrison was named executive director of innovation and transformation of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.Â
Miruna Sasu was named president and CEO of COTA Inc. In her new role, she will lead efforts to drive broader adoption of real-world data by the life sciences industry to safely accelerate the speed of development and reduce the cost of cancer drugs.Â
The Association of Community Cancer Centers conferred its first class of Fellows of ACCC (FACCC) at its 48th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit held in Washington, D.C., March 1-4.
AstraZeneca has launched the global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge to help accelerate the treatment of complex diseases, including cancer.
The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) is more than halfway to its recruiting goal of 128,905 participants, with more than 20% of participants in the United States being Black. Recruitment of women from diverse backgrounds is vital to ensuring that TMIST trial results will be applicable across races, ethnicities, and under-served communities.
In support of the reignited Cancer Moonshot’s goal of fostering data sharing in cancer research, the National Cancer Institute has launched the Molecular Characterization Initiative for pediatric tumors (The Cancer Letter, Feb. 4, 2022).Â
MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that first-line treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, achieved a high rate of complete response in patients with high-risk large B-cell lymphoma.Â
A computational approach developed by researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center combines data from parallel gene-expression profiling methods to create spatial maps of a given tissue at single-cell resolution. The resulting maps can provide insights into the cancer microenvironment and other tissue types.
