Issue 43 - Nov 17, 2017
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  • Defining the next level for Inova

    In 2010, John Knox Singleton, the CEO of the Inova Health System, had several meetings with John Niederhuber, a surgeon and scientist who had just been replaced as NCI director.

    At the time, Niederhuber still had a lab at NIH, but was plotting the next step in his career. Singleton had been Inova’s CEO since 1984.

  • Caligiuri resigns as CEO of the James after stepping down as director of OSUCCC

    Michael Caligiuri, who over the past 14 years demonstrated virtuosity in recruitment, lobbying, and fundraising, building the third-largest cancer hospital in the U.S., has stepped down as director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and as CEO of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

  • An Appreciation

    Hail to “The Chief” Donald S. Coffey, a scientist, a mentor, a wit, dies at 85

    Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D., cancer warrior, humanist, mentor to hundreds of researchers and physicians, friend to countless people, was filled with a burning curiosity to understand the world and to know personally everyone he came in contact with.

    Everyone has the story—“I met Don at a meeting and he sat me down and he asked me to tell him my life story—and I was forever changed.”

  • In Brief

    • De la Chapelle receives lifetime achievement award from colorectal cancer group
    • Gallagher named vice president and head of Global Oncology Development at AbbVie 
    • Sylvester geneticist Shiekhattar receives NIH “Pioneer Award” 
    • WPI’s Mattson receives $1.7-million NIH award to develop molecular methods
    • LUNGevity partners with ALK Positive Patient Group to fund research

  • Drugs and Targets

    • FDA approves adjuvant indication for Sutent in renal cell carcinoma
    • FDA approves obinutuzumab for previously untreated follicular lymphoma
    • FDA approves Sprycel for pediatric patients with CML
    • FDA approves Genentech’s Hemlibra to prevent bleeding in hemophilia A
    • FDA authorized MSKCC’s tumor profiling tests
Issue 42 - Nov 10, 2017
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  • Skip Trump builds a cancer center by the Beltway

     Should Donald “Skip” Trump look up while talking to you on the phone, he might see deer roaming in the pine forest outside his office window.

    Trump might let his gaze skim the brown granite skin of the building of his cancer center—the Inova Schar Cancer Institute—and watch the proton beam and radiation therapy center take shape.

  • Conversation with the Cancer Letter

    Trump’s plans for Inova reach across the Washington Beltway, through Virginia—and beyond

    Trying to build a cancer center in the middle of a saturated market should be difficult enough.

    Yet, preparing to face the competition from other established cancer centers across the Potomac is just one of the challenges Donald “Skip” Trump faces as CEO and executive director of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute.

  • CMS plan to slash $1.6 billion from 340B program will reduce discounts on cancer drugs

    Hospitals enrolled in the 340B program stand to lose up to $1.6 billion in Medicare Part B reimbursements through upcoming cuts to the drug pricing program, according to a final rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

  • In Brief

    • WUSTL’s DiPersio receives $6 million for leukemia research
    • Hopkins researchers launch interdisciplinary effort for breast cancer
    • Gad Getz, Chuan He, and Aviv Regev win Paul Marks Prize
    • Neuroblastoma foundation awards grant to Harvard’s Malgorzata Krajewska
    • Sanford Health wins ACCC David King Award
    • Ohio State receives Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award
    • NCI grant will support UA research in “lung cancer stigma”
    • NCCN publishes guidelines for cancer treatment in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Drugs and Targets

    • Alecensa gets FDA approval for ALK-positive metastatic NSCLC
    • FDA approves first treatment for Erdheim-Chester Disease
    • FDA approves Adcetris for cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma
    • Seattle Genetics submits sBLA for Adcetris in Hodgkin lymphoma
Issue 41 - Nov 3, 2017
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  • Conversation with the Cancer Letter

    Peter Pisters reflects on the upcoming challenge: leading MD Anderson

    With a month to go before his Dec. 1 start date as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Peter Pisters reflected on the challenges that await him in Houston.

  • House appropriators push back on Trump proposal to cap NIH facilities and administrative costs at 10%

    The Trump administration should consider NIH and the biomedical research enterprise as a component of the nation’s “defense” when making budgetary decisions, said Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor-HHS, Education, and Related Agencies.

  • In Brief

    • Kelly McMasters named editor of Annals of Surgical Oncology
    • Focused Ultrasound Foundation receives transformative $10 million pledge
    • Cancer imaging archive at UAMS bolstered by $8.3 million NCI grant
    • Wistar, Man’s Best Friend Therapeutics collaborate on veterinary vaccine
    • Bryant Gumbel named 2017 NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award Recipient
    • Colon Cancer Alliance changes name to Colorectal Cancer Alliance

  • Drugs and Targets

    • FDA approves AstraZeneca’s Calquence for mantle cell lymphoma
    • Consortium aims to accelerate preclinical cancer drug discovery

  • Funding Opportunities

    • The FY17 Defense Appropriations Act provides $10 million to the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program to support United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity 
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