JOHN PORTER, former member of Congress, partner in the law firm Hogan Lovells, and chair of Research!America, was named the recipient of the 2014 Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The medal will be presented April 27 during the academy's 151st annual meeting.
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE will offer over $580 million in the 2014 fiscal year through its office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.
JUSTIN KLAMERUS was named chief quality officer and executive vice president for community-based programs at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.
The American Cancer Society and Stand Up To Cancer announced a collaboration to fund translational research and advocacy programs.
In his state of the union address to Congress Jan. 28, President Barack Obama called for reversing the cuts made to basic research in the federal budget.
Peter BoyleClick Here to Download and Listen to The Cancer Letter's Conversation with Peter BoyleThe International Prevention Research Institute has published “The State of Oncology 2013,” a report that highlights disparate cancer outcomes between higher- and lower-resource countries and proposes long-term recommendations.
Congressional appropriators instructed NIH to cut spending on communications activities and coordinate the broad range of activities that fall under the category of public relations.
FDA approved Miltenyi Biotec's CliniMACS CD34 Reagent System as a Humanitarian Use Device for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease in patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first complete remission undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation from a matched related donor.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation reported a 22 percent decline in contributions in fiscal 2013—totalling over $77 million—in recent financial statements.
The Community Oncology Alliance and the American Society of Clinical Oncology issued a joint statement on payment reform in cancer care and proposed alternative approaches to paying for cancer care.
