Cellect Biotechnology Ltd. said the FDA has granted orphan drug designation for Cellect's ApoGraft for the prevention of acute and chronic graft versus host disease in transplant patients.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey appointed H. Richard Alexander as its new chief surgical officer. He is also appointed as a professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a five-year, $11.3 million Specialized Programs of Research Excellence grant from NCI to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
The Senate Appropriations Committee Sept. 7 marked up its version of the fiscal 2018 Labor-HHS spending bill, giving NIH an increase of $2 billion over the current year.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology has selected 43 recipients to be presented with one of its 2017 Annual Meeting Abstract Awards. These individuals will be recognized for their top-rated research abstracts at ASTRO's 59th Annual Meeting, taking place Sept. 24-27 in San Diego.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is working with MEDITECH to integrate the NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates into MEDITECH's Web Electronic Health Record as standard cancer treatment protocols for use at point of care.
Camille Ragin, associate professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, received a grant from NIH to create a center of research excellence at the University of the West Indies, a regional university with its main campus in Jamaica.
Guenther Koehne was named chief of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Hematologic Oncology at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation has announced grants totaling $6 million to six teams of investigators conducting innovative research on treatments and cures for prostate cancer.
Rick Kittles joined City of Hope as professor and founding director of the Division of Health Equities within the Department of Population Sciences. Kittles' research focuses on understanding the complex issues surrounding race, genetic ancestry and disease, particularly health disparities among different ethnicities.His work focuses on research into prostate cancer and health disparities among African-Americans, a field of study motivated by his grandfather's late-stage prostate cancer diagnosis and subsequent death while Kittles was in graduate school.“It was just so shocking and quick how it happened,” he recalled. “I had no idea it was such a big issue in the black community.”
