PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES and the Institute for Systems Biology announced an affiliation focused on personalized medicine. Leroy Hood, will serve as senior vice president and chief science officer of Providence Health & Services, a five-state, not-for-profit health system, and continue as president of the Seattle-based ISB. Providence and ISB will establish a number of... […]
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY published The State of Cancer Care in America: 2016, in the Journal of Oncology Practice—ASCO’s third annual assessment of national trends in cancer care delivery. The report was also presented at a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., The report highlights many promising cancer care developments, including new drugs and... […]
CHARLES SERHAN received the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Serhan is director of the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Serhan’s research focuses on... […]
JENNIE CREWS was elected president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers during the association’s 42nd annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. Crews brings more than 18 years of experience in advancing quality oncology care, currently as the medical director for cancer services in the PeaceHealth Northwest Network, which includes cancer centers in Washington state and... […]
DEBRA PATT was named editor-in-chief of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, a new publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Patt, who specializes in medical oncology and hematology, is a vice president of Texas Oncology, and medical director of outcomes research and the pathways task force for The US Oncology Network. She was formerly medical... […]
The FDA and NIH Workforce Authorities Modernization Act was introduced in the Senate by Republican and Democratic leaders of the health committee. The bill aims to help FDA and NIH “attract top talent during this exciting time in science.”
WILLIAM GRADY was awarded a $180,000 grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Research and the Price Family Foundation for a two-year project to develop methods to identify people at the highest risk for esophageal adenocarcinoma. Grady is a clinical researcher and cancer geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The... […]
ROBIN MJELLE received a $300,000 grant from the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Mjelle is a researcher at the Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The ALCF-IASLC Joint Fellowship Award supports novel, innovative and translational... […]
ARON PAREKH received a four-year, $790,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to further his research into the mechanical and biological properties of cancer cells and the methods by which they leave the initial tumor and spread or metastasize to other parts of the body. Parekh is an assistant professor of otolaryngology at... […]
JORGE LOPEZ JR. was named general counsel for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, effective July 1. Lopez is a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. He will succeed Roger Parker, who held the role since 1998 and earlier this year announced his plan to retire after 41 years... […]
