Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced a collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative focused on the development and expansion of CSHL's bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) preprint service, a free platform that enables life science researchers to quickly and easily share drafts of papers before they are published in peer-reviewed research journals.
Jason Chesney was named director of the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center, pending approval by the UofL Board of Trustees.
Kimberly Stegmaier received the St. Baldrick's Foundation Robert J. Arceci Innovation Award. Stegmaier is the vice chair of pediatric oncology research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and co-director, Pediatric Hematologic Malignancy Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
Lori Brown was appointed to the new role of chief experience officer at the The Oncology Nursing Society. Brown joins ONS with more than 18 years of combined marketing experience in retail, customer relations, and the healthcare industry.
Western IRB, a provider of ethical research review serving 2,300 academic medical centers and hospitals, announced today an alliance with Huron, a global professional services firm serving the health care, higher education, life sciences, and commercial sectors.
The Cancer Letter sent the following questions to the University of Utah and a nearly identical list of questions to Soon-Shiong's spokesperson. Julie Kiefer, manager, scientific communications at the University of Utah, provided responses to these questions. No response was received from Soon-Shiong's offices.
Starting in 2008, I worked closely with Peter Phillips to establish the Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium designed to generate a biorepository of rare biospecimens, with associated clinical information and genomic data, that could be shared with the research community.
Under ordinary circumstances, a $12 million gift from a charitable foundation to a university is a cause for celebration.
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Nearly 100 cancer patients and others gather for a march to University of Utah President David Pershing's office on April 24, calling for the reinstatement of Mary Beckerle as director and CEO of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.Cover Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsA week after her abrupt firing, Mary Beckerle is back in her job as director and CEO of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
