THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY launched an online Resource Center to help oncologists and patients understand the Patient Information and Affordable Care Act and the law's impact on oncology practices and patients.
The Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program will provide $10.5 million to support innovative, high-impact lung cancer research during fiscal 2014.
SUSAN GOODIN was named executive officer of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium.
The Special Awards honorees at the 2014 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology are:
Moffitt Cancer Center and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute earlier this week announced that they are constructing a bioinformatics framework that would enable a multi-center collaboration.
Douglas Boyd, a professor at MD Anderson, sent his own letter to the American Association of University Professors, responding to DePinho's version of events.
Responding to an inquiry by the American Association of University Professors, MD Anderson Cancer Center President Ronald DePinho said his critics are incorrect in asserting that his administration gave no formal explanation for denying tenure renewal to two faculty members.
Confronted with the prospect of censure by an academic freedom group, Ronald DePinho, president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, is defending his decision to deny tenure renewal to two faculty members.
IRWIN KRAKOFF received an honorary degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. In 1976, Krakoff became the founding director of the Vermont Cancer Center.
JOYCE NILAND was named chief research information officer at City of Hope.
