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.
The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will meet Jan. 7, 2015, to discuss a biologics license application for a proposed biosimilar to Amgen Inc.'s Neupogen (filgrastim).
As Congress goes into recess and Democrats relinquish their eight-year control of the Senate, advocates for biomedical research are rethinking their approaches to a political reality not observed in nearly a decade: a Republican-controlled Congress.
The Cancer Letter asked leaders of science and cancer advocacy groups to comment on the half-percent increases in federal funding for NIH and NCI in fiscal 2015, and on the prospects of science funding when Republicans take control of Congress in January.
The 113th Congress staggered through its final spending bill, approving $1.1 trillion in a massive “cromnibus” Dec. 13, keeping most of the federal government funded through September 2015, and locking in a half-percent increase for NIH and NCI in FY2015.
