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RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers Cancer Institute welcomes first patients

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Vol.51 No.25

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Fred Hutch announces eight recipients of 2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award

2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award Recipients, top row left to right: Caitlin Cornell, PhD, Elizabeth Kaweesa, PhD, Leandro Fernández-García, PhD, Almudena Chaves Pérez, PhD. Bottom row left to right: Luis Cedeño-Rosario, PhD, Nicole Halmai, PhD, Megan E. Meuser, PhD, Sarah Elisabeth Pierce, PhD. Fred Hutch Cancer Center has announced eight recipients of the 2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award.

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Vol.51 No.24

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Justin Taylor named recipient of Stanley J. Glaser Award to reseach potential colorectal cancer treatment

Justin Taylor, a physician-scientist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has received a Stanley J. Glaser Foundation Research Award to continue the research.

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Vol.51 No.24

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Candace Johnson and Jonathan Friedberg on living through uncertainty at NCI, payment woes
Directors of two neighboring cancer centers in Upstate New York will face challenges, but “we’ll get through it”

Candace S. Johnson leads America’s oldest cancer research center and Jonathan W. Friedberg leads the newest NCI-designated center. Their catchment areas are contiguous, their faculty and staff members collaborate often, and together their institutions embody the culture of NCI-designated cancer centers.

In first NCAB meeting since Trump’s inauguration, Lowy reflects on funding choices in lean times
“In the NCI director’s office, we have a photograph of a stone bridge, and it asks the question, which stone holds up the bridge? And the answer is all of them.”

In the first meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, NCI Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy addressed many of the burning questions the oncology field has for the institute. On indirect costs: NCI will continue to use previously negotiated and approved indirect cost rates, with the exception...

The Cancer Letter receives nine journalism, design awards

The Cancer Letter staff were finalists for nine 2025 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists—seven for journalism; two for design—and won first place for four. The Cancer Letter’s entries recognized by SPJ include investigative journalism, series, breaking news, features, photojournalism, commentary, illustration, and front page design. This is...

June 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.23

By Katie Goldberg

NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (with up to $600,000 a year) goes to 17 scientists

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RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers Cancer Institute welcomes first patients

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The Directors: Candace Johnson and Jonathan Friedberg on living through uncertainty at NCI, payment woes
Directors of two neighboring cancer centers in Upstate New York will face challenges, but “we’ll get through it”

In first NCAB meeting since Trump’s inauguration, Lowy reflects on funding choices in lean times
“In the NCI director’s office, we have a photograph of a stone bridge, and it asks the question, which stone holds up the bridge? And the answer is all of them.”