FDA expanded the approved use of Cyramza (ramucirumab) to treat patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA selected WIRB-Copernicus Group to help expand its clinical research program. WCG will assist CTCA in the centralization of its regulatory and ethical review process.
At a meeting Dec. 2, the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors approved three concepts during a joint meeting with the National Cancer Advisory Board.
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY and FEI expanded their Living Lab for Cell Biology agreement that includes the installation of a complete correlative microscopy workflow in the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building on the OHSU campus. This expansion adds a new instrument, the FEI CorrSight, to the OHSU-FEI correlative light and electron microscopy suite.
THE ROBERT H. LURIE Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, the Northwestern Medicine Developmental Therapeutics Institute, and NeoGenomics Inc. entered into a research agreement with plans to initiate a translational program focused on expanding the use of genomic profiling technologies.
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Cancer Institute received a $150,000 memorial gift from the Center for Advancing Health to support a new patient engagement center.
THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $25 million pledge from philanthropists James and Elizabeth McDonnell for the schools genomics institute. With the gift, the institute will be named The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute named the winners of its 2014 James Hope Award.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and UnitedHealthcare launched a pilot program for a cancer care payment model for head and neck cancers using bundled payments.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute opened in a new hospital building, following a four-phase transition that involved 700 staff and volunteers, spanning three days.
