BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB and Celldex Therapeutics Inc. entered into a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of nivolumab, BMS's investigational PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, and varlilumab, Celldex's CD27 targeting investigational antibody in a phase I/II study.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY named new officers during its 91st Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference.
The Translational Genomics Research Institute and George Mason University announced a strategic research alliance May 6.
The 340B drug discount program is causing a rise in the costs of treating cancer patients, according to a new report.
AAUP: “Term Tenure” is “Oxymoronic”MD Anderson's “term tenure” system is not tenure, AAUP said.
No Justification Provided AAUP Demands Reinstatement of Faculty Denied Tenure Renewal at MD Anderson
The American Association of University Professors sent a letter to Ronald DePinho, president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, urging the reinstatement of two faculty members who were denied tenure renewal without stated reasons.
NCI: NCTN Makes “Amazing Trials” Possible“It is important to note that the $151 million does not capture the many other functions that NCI provides in support of the NCTN and the entire clinical trials enterprise,” Garrett said. “A few of these key centralized functions include the Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU), a 'one-stop shop' for the groups to access all trials, a Central Institutional Review Board (CIRB) to eliminate the need for local IRB approvals, tumor banking for each group, and ancillary studies funded to support biomarker and quality of life research.
The budgets of operations and statistical centers of adult clinical trials groups were cut by about $20.4 million, group chairs say.
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER honored 16 junior faculty members with the first R. Lee Clark Fellow awards. The award was established to recognize outstanding work by junior faculty members.
PETER BACH's account of his wife's death from breast cancer—"The Day I Started Lying to Ruth"—was published in New York Magazine May 6.
