Clayton, Dubilier & Rice funds, the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI), and McKesson Ventures are investing in M2Gen, an oncology data and informatics platform focused on transforming cancer care, in partnership with its existing shareholders.
FDA will hold a three-day meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee April 27-29 to consider five indications that received accelerated approvals, but that have not been shown to produce a clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
NCI recently announced a master plan for its $500 million Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, a pilot project designed to set the stage for building a publicly accessible, comprehensive data federation for all cancers (The Cancer Letter, Dec. 4, 2020).
Xiongbin Lu was named co-leader of the Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Regina Bou Puerto, Mijin Kim named 2021 Kravis Women in Science Endeavor fellowship grant recipients
Regina Bou Puerto and Mijin Kim, Sloan Kettering Institute researchers, were named 2021 Marie-Josée Kravis Women in Science Endeavor (Kravis WiSE) fellowship grant recipients.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has announced one of the first cloud-based data management platforms in the country to identify, track, follow and monitor patients with pancreatic cysts.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published new best practice recommendations for Management of COVID-19 infection in patients with cancer.
A comprehensive review by University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues of hundreds of publications, incorporating more than two dozen articles on prevention screening for lung cancer with low-dose spiral computed tomography, shows there are both benefits and harms from screening.
JScreen, a national public health initiative based out of Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Human Genetics, has established a program that offers at-home testing for more than 60 cancer susceptibility genes associated with hereditary risks for breast, ovarian, prostate, colorectal, skin and other cancers.
A John Hopkins study suggests gaining a better understanding of physical frailty could eventually help people age more healthfully.
