The FY18 Defense Appropriation provides $15 million to the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program to support the United States Medical Research Acquisition Activity. FY18 KCRP Program Announcements and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanisms are posted on the Grants.gov website. Concept Award Letter of Intent due July 11 Idea Development Award... […]
Steven Rosenberg received the 2018 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons.
Penn State Health and Highmark Health, announced plans for a strategic partnership aimed at securing the future of health care in the region.
NCI has renewed City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center's five-year Cancer Center Support Grant, with an overall rating of “outstanding.”
Stephen Forman, the Francis & Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, was inducted as a member of the Association of American Physicians.
City of Hope Provost and Chief Scientific Officer Steven Rosen was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Rosen was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers in recognition of his contributions to innovation in cancer treatment as a physician, scientist, educator and administrator.
Tanya Dorff has joined City of Hope as an associate clinical professor in the Department of Medical Oncology, heading the genitourinary cancers program. She was previously at USC Keck School of Medicine, where she served as an associate professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine.
Benjamin Djulbegovic, a professor and director of research in City of Hope's Department of Supportive Care Medicine, was named director of Evidence-based Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research, a new core program here at City of Hope created in response to an increasing realization that successful health care delivery and continuing improvement of patient outcomes depends on full integration of research, education and clinical practice.
To prevent and effectively respond to sexual harassment of women, institutions of higher education need to promote a system-wide change to the culture and climate on campus, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
In May 2018, President Trump announced his plan to lower drug prices. “We will have tougher negotiation, more competition, and much lower prices at the pharmacy counter. And it will start to take effect very soon,” he promised. The plan is outlined in a 40-page document by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services titled “American Patients First—The Trump Administration Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Cost.” (1)
