Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

The challenge of making the move from conversational AI to autonomous scientific discovery
Advancing from level II to level III AI agents in precision medicine

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming biomedical research and healthcare. Large language models, foundation models, and AI agents are increasingly being deployed to assist with data interpretation, literature review, clinical decision support, and translational research.

July 10, 2026

Vol.52 No.27

By Enrique Velazquez-Villarreal

Clinical Roundup

Young women diagnosed with breast cancer within three years of childbirth may face more aggressive disease, UCLA study finds

Breast cancers diagnosed during the first three years after childbirth, particularly within the first year, may be biologically more aggressive than similar cancers in women who have never given birth, according to a study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

July 10, 2026

Vol.52 No.27

Clinical Roundup

Portable ultrasound system could make reliable breast imaging more accessible, MIT study finds

For people at high risk of developing breast cancer, yearly mammograms may not be enough to detect tumors early. To make earlier diagnosis easier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has developed portable detectors based on ultrasound, which could be used much more frequently. The team reports that they have improved the resolution of the images produced by their system, making it easier to spot potential tumors, as well as cysts and microcalcifications.

July 10, 2026

Vol.52 No.27

Clinical Roundup

MammaPrint + BluePrint genomic profiling predicts anthracycline chemotherapy benefit in HR+HER2- early-stage breast cancer

MammaPrint + BluePrint can help identify a subset of patients with hormone receptor positive, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer most likely to benefit from anthracycline-based chemotherapy, according to the results of the prospective FLEX Study (NCT03053193).

July 02, 2026

Vol.52 No.26

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Trodelvy for first-line treatment of mTNBC

FDA approved Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy), a first-in-class Trop-2-directed antibody-drug conjugate, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

July 02, 2026

Vol.52 No.26

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Directors of two Midwestern cancer centers tell us about the challenging healthcare economics in rural areas
“Institutions are feeling crunched in so many different directions”

How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.

June 26, 2026

Vol.52 No.25

By Paul Goldberg and Claire Marie Porter

Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN

The challenge of making the move from conversational AI to autonomous scientific discoveryAdvancing from level II to level III AI agents in precision medicine

Young women diagnosed with breast cancer within three years of childbirth may face more aggressive disease, UCLA study finds

Portable ultrasound system could make reliable breast imaging more accessible, MIT study finds

MammaPrint + BluePrint genomic profiling predicts anthracycline chemotherapy benefit in HR+HER2- early-stage breast cancer

FDA approves Trodelvy for first-line treatment of mTNBC

The Directors: Directors of two Midwestern cancer centers tell us about the challenging healthcare economics in rural areas“Institutions are feeling crunched in so many different directions”

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The challenge of making the move from conversational AI to autonomous scientific discovery
Advancing from level II to level III AI agents in precision medicine

The Directors: Directors of two Midwestern cancer centers tell us about the challenging healthcare economics in rural areas
“Institutions are feeling crunched in so many different directions”