AACR has named its newly elected class of Fellows of the AACR Academy.
Charles L. Sawyers, chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was elected president-elect by the fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2020-2021.
Steven A. Rosenberg, fellow of the AACR Academy, has received the 2020 AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology.
John E. Dick, fellow of the AACR Academy, has received the the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research.
Real-world data is everywhere. During the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are literally generating, and collecting, real-world data every single day—from electronic health records, insurance claims, patient registries, and a myriad of other sources. But the question remains: how do we use this data to better understand, prevent, and treat this disease?
In March, as SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly across the United States, cancer researchers scrambled to find clues about the virus and ways to mitigate its damage.
NCI has issued two Requests for Applications and a Request for Proposals focused on COVID-19 serology and immunology.
The name of the session was a message in and of itself: “Racism and Racial Inequalities in Cancer Research.”
The proportion of racial and ethnic minority patients in NCI-funded clinical trials has nearly doubled over two decades—from 14% in 1999 to 25% in 2019, according to data from NCI's National Clinical Trials Network and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program.
