NCI will immediately start the process of streamlining IND-exempt trials in order to make them faster, simpler, more flexible, less expensive, and easier to integrate with clinical practice, James Doroshow, NCI deputy director for clinical and translational research and director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, said to The Cancer Letter. On Nov. […]
It’s time to supercharge NCI’s role in redefining clinical trials and in strengthening the cancer research enterprise, NCI Director Monica Bertagnolli said Nov. 9 in her first director’s report.
Gregory Reaman was named scientific director of the NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. The initiative represents a national commitment to harnessing and sharing data in ways to make faster progress in childhood cancers.
Catherine Bollard and her team have an ambitious goal: To establish CAR T-cell therapies as the standard of care for pediatric solid tumors within the next 10 years. CAR Ts have made little to no clinical traction in solid tumors thus far, despite their success in some blood cancers.
Cancer Grand Challenges, a funding initiative co-founded by Cancer Research UK and NCI, brings together a community of diverse, world-class researchers to tackle cancer’s toughest challenges. Researchers, patient advocates, and the public are invited to submit ideas to shape its next round of funding and to help drive vital progress against cancer.
In her first public speech as NCI director, Monica Bertagnolli said that under her stewardship NCI would modernize clinical trials and double patient accrual.
Cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the U.S. from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
Fox Chase Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine were selected to develop a new Cancer Prevention-Interception Targeted Agent Discovery Program.
Sudhir Srivastava won the Don Listwin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection.
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center formed a collaboration with the Chinatown Service Center to improve access to life-saving cervical cancer screenings, referrals, and treatment for Chinese and Latina women in Central Los Angeles.
