Adam Marcus, director of Emory University’s Integrated Cellular Imaging Shared Resource, has been appointed as Winship Cancer Institute’s new associate director for basic research and shared resources. He replaces Paul Doetsch, who served in the position since 1999. Doetsch has been designated to become the deputy scientific director in the Division of Intramural Research of... […]
NRG Oncology, one of the five funded network groups within NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network said Robert Mannel will serve as one of its three group chairmen. He joins Walter Curran and Norman Wolmark as the NRG Oncology group chairmen and principal investigators of the group’s federal awards. Mannell, director of the Stephenson Cancer Center,... […]
James Allison and Robert Schreiber won the Balzan Prize for their contributions to immunological approaches in cancer therapy. According to the prize committee, “Professors Schreiber and Allison have played transformative roles in the field of tumor immunology, Schreiber by demonstrating that the immune system is crucially involved in fighting tumours and by introducing the concept... […]
David Penson, chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was named associate editor of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Penson, the Paul V. Hamilton and Virginia E. Howd Professor in Urologic Oncology, also serves as director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research at Vanderbilt University... […]
The American Association for Cancer Research is accepting nominations for the 2018 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research.The AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research will recognize a worthy cancer researcher who has conducted highly meritorious translational and clinical cancer research who... […]
The FY17 Defense Appropriations Act provides $10 million to the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program to support United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program Research,... […]
The European Commission approved Merck's Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of certain patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
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.
