A $10.6 million grant from NIH will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to expand its proteomics resource.
Baylor's Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center received $11 million in renewed SPORE funding from NCI.
Biochemist Charles Brenner was named the inaugural holder of the Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Chair in Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism at City of Hope.
Henry A. Pitt was named chief of oncologic quality at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a RWJBarnabas Health facility.
George Simon was named executive medical director of the joint Moffitt Cancer Center-AdventHealth new clinical research unit in Celebration, FL.
Dorina Avram was named vice chair of the Department of Immunology at Moffitt Cancer Center, where she will work closely with department chair Jose R. Conejo-Garcia. Additionally, Avram will have a secondary appointment in the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded 62 new grants totaling over $114 million—consisting of 52 academic research grant awards, eight prevention awards, and two product development research awards.
Yale's Ranjithmenon Muraleedharan has received the SebastianStrong Foundation's $225,000 2020 Discovery Science Award.
A research team at the University of Arizona Health Sciences is developing a novel imaging technique to detect the spread of small liver tumors in patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
Kristen Gonter-Aubin joined the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute. She is seeing patients at the FCS Englewood office in Venice, FL. Prior to joining FCS, she was a member of the Hematology/Oncology Fellow Committee, the Program Evaluation Committee and the Resident Advisory Committee at the University of South Florida.
