JOAN MASSAGUÉ received the International Award for Cancer Research, presented by the Pezcoller Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research.
VANTAGE ONCOLOGY LLC will be acquired by McKesson Specialty Health. Vantage is a provider of radiation oncology, medical oncology, and other integrated cancer care services. “We are excited about what Vantage can accomplish as part of the McKesson platform,” said Michael Fiore, chief executive officer and co-founder of Vantage. “By joining together, we will be... […]
FDA will provide $2 million in two to five research grants for the study of the natural history of rare diseases. The objective of the grants is to expedite the development of products for these conditions.
IBM and the New York Genome Center will collaborate on a comprehensive and open repository of genetic data to accelerate cancer research, using Watson technology. The collaboration was announced at the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. IBM and the center will build the capacity to house the contributed data, train Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities... […]
Ovarian cancer should not be categorized as a single disease, but as many different cancers involving the ovary, according to a report published by the National Academy of Medicine.
THE INTERNATIONAL CANCER GENOME CONSORTIUM authorized its 1,000th user, giving them access to the Consortium’s Controlled Access datasets. ICGC datasets that catalogue tumor-specific mutations are unrestricted and freely available to the scientific community. However, the consortium developed an authorization process to distribute clinical and inherited genetic data associated with unique individuals in order to minimize... […]
MICHAEL BUKOSKY was appointed chief operating officer of USMD Holdings Inc., and will oversee daily operations of therapeutic, diagnostic and centralized services, including hospital services, cancer treatment centers, clinical and pathology labs, imaging, human resources, contracting, revenue cycle, marketing and communications and IT. Bukosky will retain his position as president of USMD Physician Practice Management,... […]
LAUREN STREICHER joined Northwestern Medical Group as medical director and gynecologist for Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Sexual Health, anticipated to open in late 2017. Streicher is an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Streicher has appeared in numerous national and local media outlets discussing all aspects of... […]
DAVID WEINER was named executive vice president of The Wistar Institute, director of the Vaccine Center, and the W. W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. Weiner will also contribute tumor immunology-focused research as a professor in Wistar’s Translational Tumor Immunology program. Previously, Weiner was a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University... […]
NCI is developing patient-derived xenograft mouse models as a potential substitute for the NCI-60 cell lines, a standard screen which experts say can no longer keep up with advances in cancer research and targeted molecular therapy.
