Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), Ranking Member Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) wrote to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf to urge the agency to move forward with guidance to improve the diversity of populations represented in clinical trials.
A month after reporting to work in the top job at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taofeek K. Owonikoko reflected on the obligations that come with being a Black director of an NCI-designated cancer center.
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.
