Sheldon L. Holder knew he wanted to pursue a career in medicine in the second grade, thanks to a career day at his school on the island of Bermuda.
Edith P. Mitchell, a medical oncologist, champion of health equity, and the first woman physician to attain the rank of U.S. Air Force brigadier general, died unexpectedly Jan. 21. She was 76.
Edith P. Mitchell, a pioneering researcher in cancer health disparities, director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, professor of medicine and medical oncology, and enterprise vice president for cancer disparities at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, died Jan. 21.
Juliana Hofstatter AzambujaCarlos Mendez-DorantesMaritza Puray-ChavezTigist TamirChristine VazquezJohanna Melo-CardenasGina Gallego LopezKari PriceFred Hutchinson Cancer Center has announced the recipients of the 2023 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award, which recognizes early-career underrepresented minority scientists and scientists with disabilities.
Rady Children’s oncologist Paula Aristizabal receives $4M to diversify clinical trials participation
Paula Aristizabal, a pediatric oncologist at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and associate professor of pediatrics in pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of California San Diego and Moores Cancer Center, received a $4 million R01 research grant to expand a pilot program aimed at improving diverse participation in pediatric cancer clinical trials.
At a time of intensifying national polarization over critical race theory and affirmative action, leaders of cancer centers are faced with two challenges that appear to be diametrically at odds with each other
A $10.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help establish the University of Hawaiʻi Pacific Center for Genome Research.
Robert A. Winn, director of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, became president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes at the conclusion of the 2023 AACI/CCAF annual meeting in Washington, DC, Oct. 3.
OK, name a movie doctor—fast!Chances are, you are thinking of Robin Williams as Patch Adams in the eponymous flick or of Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble in “The Fugitive.”
The world’s only biobank that collects healthy breast tissue is once again taking the lead to fulfill another unmet need in breast cancer research: collecting tissue from men to understand how male breast cancer develops.
