NCI has truncated the just-renewed five-year Cancer Center Support Grant held by Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center as that institution undergoes a bumpy transition of leadership—in the midst of a challenging integration with Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute.
Fox Chase Cancer Center used to be a place where Nobel laureates toiled. Now, people who love the place—and in oncology, many people do—are hoping that Jonathan Chernoff, Fox Chase’s new director, will restore vitality to the venerable Philadelphia-based cancer center.
The Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) was and is a hotbed for basic and translational discovery. Initially a standalone institute, the ICR is currently the main science engine for the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
God did not intend directors of NCI-designated cancer centers to last in their jobs forever.
Every cancer center seeking to obtain (or keep) an NCI designation will soon have to present a plan for increasing the diversity of their faculty and workforce.
DEI Network founders: Let’s work together to increase diversity across all cancer centers in America
Christopher Li and Wendy Law, both of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have a message for leaders of DEI programs in oncology.