Marcella Nunez-Smith was appointed director of the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity for Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, as well as chief health equity officer and deputy chief medical officer, at SCH—and associate cancer center director for Community Outreach and Engagement at YCC.
As NCI paylines drop to 4%, cancer centers are tapping into their institutional funds to provide “bridge funding,” typically in $50,000 to $100,000 increments, to enable investigators to keep their labs open until better times return—next year God willing.
