Sir Paul Nurse is the recipient of the 26th Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer. A geneticist and cell biologist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nurse is founding director and chief executive officer of the Francis Crick Institute in London.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has been approved for research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study whether adding chemotherapy before standard treatment with immunotherapy, radiation, and surgery for certain sarcomas will reduce the risk of the cancer returning.
