Trial shows atezolizumab combined with carboplatin has efficacy in TNBC

Steinhart, Foisey, Ganguly, Yamada-Hunter receive PICI Early Career Researcher awards

Zachary SteinhartMaxwell FoiseyDebolina GangulySean Yamada-HunterThe Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, a collaborative consortium of the world’s leading immuno-oncology experts, named its 2024 class of Early Career Researcher awardees.

June 28, 2024

Vol.50 No.26

In Brief

Noam Auslander receives $600K grant to identify connections between gut microbial genes and melanoma immunotherapy

The Wistar Institute’s Noam Auslander, assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program at the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, was awarded a $600,000 Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

June 28, 2024

Vol.50 No.26

In Brief

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute receives five NCI grants

Researchers at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have been awarded five grants from NCI in 2024, totaling $4.6 million.

June 28, 2024

Vol.50 No.26

Clinical Roundup

Tai Chi reduces risk of inflammatory disease, treats insomnia among breast cancer survivors

Both Tai Chi and cognitive behavioral therapy can reduce insomnia in breast cancer survivors but also may provide additional health benefits by reducing inflammation and bolstering anti-viral defenses, according to a study led by UCLA Health researchers. The work was published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

June 28, 2024

Vol.50 No.26

In Brief

Wistar Institute receives $10M donation

The Wistar Institute received a $10 million donation from an anonymous donor who previously committed $20 million to support Wistar’s new Center for Advanced Therapeutics.

June 21, 2024

Vol.50 No.25

Obituary

“Father of tamoxifen” V. Craig Jordan dies at 76

Pharmacologist V. Craig Jordan, a professor of Breast and Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who discovered selective estrogen receptor modulators and developed breakthrough breast cancer treatments, died June 9 at his home in Houston.

June 14, 2024

Vol.50 No.24

By MD Anderson Cancer Center staff