GRAIL and United Kingdom's National Health Service are collaborating to make GRAIL's multi-cancer early detection blood test, Galleri, available to UK patients starting in 2021.
Raymond Bergan was named deputy director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at University of Nebraska Medical Center.
E. Ramsay Camp was named professor and chief of surgical oncology in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery's Division of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Harikrishna Nakshatri, a researcher at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Defense to characterize unique biomarkers within the normal breasts of Black women and how that impacts health disparities in breast cancer.
The American Association for Cancer Research and FDA will collaborate on the Project Livin' Label, an educational initiative that aims to foster broad understanding of specific oncology product labels and increase awareness of recent oncology drug FDA approvals.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has established a center dedicated to maintaining and expanding the legacy of the late Clara D. Bloomfield. The center will be initially supported by a $5 million commitment from the OSUCCC – James.
On the way out, the Trump administration has finalized a rule that uses international reference prices to lower Medicare Part B prices.
NCI has joined a nationwide initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minority faculty at NIH-funded cancer hospitals.
NCI is using a hub-and-spoke structure to engineer an ambitious data federation for pediatric cancers—which, if done right, is anticipated to become the gold standard for a new generation of comprehensive cancer databases.
FDA has approved the liquid biopsy next-generation sequencing-based FoundationOne Liquid CDx test Oct. 26 and Nov. 6 as a companion diagnostic device for multiple additional biomarkers detected in cell free-DNA isolated from plasma specimens.
