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.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center will be the national coordinating center for a new epidemiological cohort study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Miria KanoCurtis HenryMiria Kano and Curtis Henry were named associate director and deputy associate director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Cancer research centers conducting clinical trials could enroll more patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups by placing greater emphasis on relieving
Lifebit, gen-t, and Omica.bio have partnered to help diversify genomic research and reduce health inequality in Latin America.
Progress against cancer, as brought about by high quality academic cancer centers, requires individual excellence from experts who apply distinct, highly specific skill sets to a common goal within the cancer center. The cancer center coordinates and supports these efforts.
Brian D. Gonzalez was named the inaugural associate center director of Research Diversity and Workforce Development at Moffitt Cancer Center.
The Diversity in Cancer Research Internship Program, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was established to give undergraduate college students from under-represented communities exposure and experience in the hopes of increasing diversity among cancer researchers.
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE), now augmented with the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED), is critical and central to the impact of NCI-designated cancer centers, and both are set forth as required components for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).
