Edward Chu was named director of Albert Einstein Cancer Center, vice president for cancer medicine at Montefiore Medicine, professor of medicine and of molecular pharmacology, and will hold the Carol and Roger Einiger Professorship of Cancer Medicine at Einstein.
Erick Herrscher was named director of the Hyundai Cancer Institute at Children's Hospital of Orange County.
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah received a renewed NCI-designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The addition of 12 oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, Myeloma Center research director at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has received two grants of $3.14 million to study the molecular genetics and drug resistance of multiple myeloma.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and Association of Community Cancer Centers are working to foster participation in cancer treatment trials to more fully reflect the diversity of people at risk for or living with cancer.
Eighteen oncology practices receive Quality Certification from the Association for Clinical Oncology
Eighteen cancer practices have received the Association for Clinical Oncology's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification in the second quarter of 2020.
Nineteen members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology received Fellow designation.
St. Baldrick's Foundation awarded $12.9 million in grants in 2020.
Adjusting to the pandemic, NCI has developed shortcuts in the conduct of clinical trials that could make it easier to conduct clinical trials, NCI Principal Deputy Director Douglas Lowy said at the virtual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research on COVID-19 and Cancer.
