On June 3, two days after his 87th birthday, John Edward Porter, who represented the 10th Congressional District of Illinois as a Republican for over twenty years, died of pneumonia in a hospital in Northern Virginia.
The House of Representatives on June 22 voted 336-85 to pass legislation that would establish the authorities of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health (ARPA-H), President Joe Biden’s proposed high-risk, high-reward biomedical research agency.
NCI is moving forward with a plan to evaluate multi-cancer early detection tests, a technology that is rapidly making inroads into the healthcare system.
The Cancer History Project is highlighting survivor stories throughout the month of June, which we jumpstarted with interviews conducted by guest editor Deborah Doroshow, assistant professor of medicine at Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Alex A. Adjei was named chair of Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He succeeds Jame Abraham, who has been interim chair of Taussig Cancer Institute since May 2021.