At a Senate hearing that considered her nomination to the post of NIH director, Monica Bertagnolli laid out an agenda that includes expanding access to clinical trials and making health care innovation affordable and accessible to the public.
Amid the gridlock that has seized Washington, NCI faces a grim and disturbing FY2024, the institute’s Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy said at the annual meeting of the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
As Robert A. Winn begins his two-year term as president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes, his presidential initiative of “Inclusive Excellence” aims to increase collaboration among cancer centers, their communities, and other cancer organizations in the United States and abroad.
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.
Results from a collaborative study on universal hereditary cancer genetic testing in all patients with breast cancer in a rural population in the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Conducted by Invitae in collaboration with The Outer Banks Hospital in North Carolina from 2019 to 2022, the study analyzed the implementation of universal hereditary cancer genetic testing in all patients with breast cancer, as recommended by the American Society of Breast Surgeons guidelines in 2019.
Research grants provided by the Community Foundation of Broward have helped Memorial Cancer Institute, in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, establish a patient registry and biorepository (tumor bank) for minority cancer patients.
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.
Amelie Ramirez, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences and leader of Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, won the 2023 Association of American Cancer Institutes Cancer Health Equity Award.
