WENDY SELIG plans to step down as president and CEO of the Melanoma Research Alliance, posts she has held for the past five years, in order to establish a new consulting venture.
UT SOUTHWESTERN and a Texas consortium plans to establish the country's first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy, targeted for completion in 2021. NCI awarded UT Southwestern a $1 million planning grant to develop research proposals for the center.
KARL DEISSEROTH was awarded the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for the development of tools to image the functions of cells, especially neurons.
BRCA gene testing rates increased by nearly 40 percent in the week of Angelina Jolie's 2013 announcement that she carried the BRCA 1 gene mutation and had an elective double mastectomy, according to a new AARP Public Policy Institute study released Feb. 11.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the “Oncology Care Model,” a multi-payer payment and care delivery model to support care coordination of cancer care.
Cigarette smoking may kill tens of thousands more from diseases that are not currently counted as caused by smoking, according to a decade-long study led by American Cancer Society researchers.
According to MD Anderson administration, Eugenie Kleinerman “decided to step down as Head, Division of Pediatrics, and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, effective Feb. 9 in order to pursue her interests in new initiatives in adolescent and young adult cancer.”
The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee will jointly review talimogene laherparepvec for the treatment of patients with injectable regionally or distantly metastatic melanoma at a meeting April 29.
Even at high cost, blood cancer drugs provide a good value, an analysis by Tufts Medical Center researchers found.
Roche acquired Signature Diagnostics AG, a privately held company based in Potsdam, Germany, that develops large blood plasma and tissue biobanks in multiple cancers, including colorectal and lung, which are constructed from multicenter prospective clinical studies.
