Ben Ho Park, the Donna S. Hall Professor of Breast Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology.
Michaela A. Dinan was named co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center received a $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to use the microbiome to limit complications of stem cell transplants for blood cancers and other diseases.
Yale Cancer Center member Sidi Chen, assistant professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, and a member of the Yale West Campus Systems Biology Institute, was awarded a $500,000 research grant from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy to advance multiplexed activation of endogenous genes as an Immunotherapy or MAEGI technology.
The American Association for Cancer Research has named the 2020-2021 inaugural class of FDA-AACR Oncology Educational Fellows.
Alliance Cancer Specialists and Northwest Oncology have joined the US Oncology Network.
The National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting Oct. 19.
Over the past five decades, a marked shift in the number of women practicing gynecologic oncology has transformed the field. The specialty began as 57 men gynecologists, who saw an unmet need in the care of women with malignancies of the female genital tract.
In March, COVID-19 threatened to bring research at cancer centers to a halt.
Rachelle Monteau first learned about Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through her father, who worked as a physician assistant, and who served on medical mission trips to Haiti, his home country.
