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City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope announces the hiring of Stanley Hamilton, MD, and Alexey Danilov, MD, PhD. Dr. Hamilton brings more than four decades of expertise to his …

This bill, which requires state Medicaid programs to cover routine patient costs for items and services that are provided in connection with a qualifying clinical trial regarding cancer or other life…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Prior to COVID-19, video visits at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center were used sparingly. UC San Diego Health had completed just 870 telehealth appointments i…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute and collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have published research extending o…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Innovent Biologics, Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration agreement to co-develop…

University of Florida Health Cancer CenterChristopher R. Cogle, MD, a professor of hematology and oncology at the University of Florida, is among the 10 leaders announced by the National Academy of…

This bill includes certain lymphedema compression treatment items as covered durable medical equipment under Medicare. (Lymphedema is a condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling that…

AACI members have elected Caryn Lerman, PhD, as vice president/president-elect of the association. Cornelia Ulrich, MS, PhD, and Robert Winn, MD, have been elected as new board members, and Charles S…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park staff and patients are mourning a devastating loss. Oscar Colegio, MD, PhD, the Lawrence P. & Joan Castellani Family Endowed Chair in …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In the first study to look at objective measures of sedentary behavior and cancer mortality, researchers from The University of Texas MD Ander…

Siteman Cancer Center Siteman Cancer Center has been recognized once again as "exceptional" by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) after having received a nearly perfect score on its most rece…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer CenterThe American Association for Cancer Research has named Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, director of the University of Chicago Medicine Compreh…

Last month AACI welcomed University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC) and Cancer Center at Brown University to its membership roster, bringing the association’s total number of memb…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has identified what they believe …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Royal Philips are collaborating to provide oncologists with evidence-based therapy and c…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Flags were lowered to half-staff across Duke University for Neil Spector, MD, a nationally recognized physician-scientist, translational r…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center David Cortez, PhD, has been named associate director for basic science research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He is an expert in the field of DNA damage r…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center To help identify people who have inherited genes for genitourinary cancers, UCLA Health and the Department of Urology at UCLA have created a new telehe…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center For many medical researchers, studying and combating disease means going to work in exam rooms, offices and laboratories. For Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The Fox Chase-Temple University Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program will soon become the newest department at Fox Chase. It will be chaired by Henry …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new center at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer…

Cancer Center at Illinois Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, PhD, has been appointed senior advisor to the director of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Rohit Bhargava, PhD. She will counsel stra…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky and ArtemiLife Inc., will collaborate on a clinical study using the extract of a medicinal plant grown in Kentucky to test for anti-cancer ac…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer The team tasked with designing the new Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai had one overarching goal: creating a safe, soothing patient environment. The new facility…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Health care leader Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD, has been elected the new board chair of City of Hope, effective June 1. He joined the board in January…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah About 15 percent of lung cancers are classified as small cell lung cancer. Recent studies have indicated that four major subtypes of small c…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute William Russel "Rusty" Robinson, MD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Center and Research Institute as a professor in gy…

WVU Cancer Institute Using a $3.62 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the West Virginia University Cancer Institute will continue working with clinics across th…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers analyzed gene-expression patterns in the most aggressive prostate cancer grade group and found tha…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center For years, evidence has shown the negative effects of smoking cigarettes on cancer patients’ health outcomes, but sometimes quitting is easier said t…

University of Virginia Cancer Center An innovative use of focused ultrasound is showing promise against glioblastoma and could prove useful against other difficult-to-treat cancers. The techni…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A research team led by cancer researcher Justin Leung, PhD, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has uncovered the role of the prote…

Moffitt Cancer Center Eric B. Haura, MD, and Nikhil Khushalani, MD, have been named to new leadership positions in Moffitt Cancer Center’s clinical science research division.Read More

Moffitt Cancer CenterSusan Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH, associate center director of community outreach, engagement and equity at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been selected to serve on the National Cancer…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Rebecca Martin, PhD, and two of her students have developed an extremely rapid experimental molecular diagnostic assay that decreases the amount of time …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Treatment with the targeted therapy osimertinib following surgery improves disease-free survival in patients with early-stage, non-small cell lung c…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new UK Markey Cancer Center study finds that many Kentucky patients with colon cancer are not receiving the recommended standard of care therapy for their disease. Av…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center New preclinical work by a team of researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program suggests that the…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Disease hits Black and brown people harder. Same for Indigenous people, individuals in rural areas, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and others who are medically …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate and model cytokine signaling related…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center People with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel had fewer complications and lived longer than those who received another chemotherapy tha…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have presented the first outcomes evaluation of patients participating in an adult oncology hospita…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers have shown that women related to a patient with a breast cancer caused by a hereditary mutation—but who don’t have the mutation themselves—have no higher …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson HealthAndrew E. Aplin, PhD, has been recognized with the Melanoma Research Foundation Humanitarian Award. His research focuses on better understanding the m…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer treatment has advanced with the advent of immunotherapies that, in some cancers, can overcome tumors’ ability to evade the immune sy…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Physician-scientists at the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have been working not only to improve the results of ch…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Efforts in recent years to reduce four procedures deemed low value for early stage breast cancer patients have met with only mixed success, according…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A nanochip created by researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center and the University of Kansas has the potential to detect and track breast can…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Using induced pluripotent stem cells and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer…

There is still time to register for the 12th Annual AACI Clinical Research Innovation Meeting, next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 7-8. Although the meeting will be virtual due to safety concerns amid t…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Cen…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Scott Soderling, PhD, has founded a Duke spinout company, CasTag BioSciences, based on a technology developed in his lab that marks protei…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Daratumumab, a treatment for multiple myeloma, only increases patient survival by a few months, with cancer cells quickly developing resistance to the drug, New …

To prioritize the health and well-being of AACI meeting attendees, supporters, and cancer center patients, AACI's Board of Directors and the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting Program Committee have decid…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at City of Hope, working in collaboration with researchers at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and other colleagues across t…

Stanford Cancer Institute By making two different alterations to a single messenger protein, a research team led by Jennifer Cochran, PhD, has induced the body’s biochemical control system to …

Siteman Cancer Center A blood test developed by Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center could help determine next steps for patients whose prostate cancer has spread despite…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Someday, hundreds of millions of vaccinations against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could show up in people’s mailboxes and be applied as simply a…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthFox Chase Cancer Center researcher Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD, has been appointed to serve as an associate editor for the journal Health Psychology.Read More

AACI encourages you to write your representatives in Washington to express concern about two recent presidential proclamations that suspend visa processing for individuals from China and for certain …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The findings of the first large observational study of nearly 1,000 patients with cancer who contracted COVID-19—gleaned from over 100 institutions participating …

WVU Cancer Institute COVID-19 tests are in short supply. The companies that make the necessary chemicals—called reagents—can’t keep up with demand. But researchers at West Virginia University …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute KIYATEC, Inc., has announced that the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has joined the growing roster of institutions participating in…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health An international panel led by researchers and thought leaders at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health and the Department of Urolo…

The AACI Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host "Implementation of Germline Testing for Prostate Cancer" at 1:00 pm eastern time on Wednesday, July 22. The webinar will highlight a…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists have found that diet can cause microbes in the gut to trigger changes in the host’s response to a chemotherapy drug. Common components of our da…

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre welcomes back renowned multiple myeloma clinician and researcher, Keith Stewart, MB, ChB, from the Mayo Clinic. Effective June 1, Dr. Stewart is the vice president, ca…

Stanford Cancer Institute Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor and chair of radiology at Stanford School of Medicine and an internationally recognized pioneer in molecular imaging, died July…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect whether an individual has one of five common types of cancers, fo…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Amy Overby has been named director of the clinical trials office at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Joining Winship from the Universi…

Joann Sweasy, PhD, has been named director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, and the inaugural holder of the Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge Endowed Chair for the director of the cancer center.…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed the designation of Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah as a Comprehens…

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has announced the appointment of MUSC College of Medicine Dean Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, to the additional role of director for the MUSC Hollings Can…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded an $11 million grant renewal from the National institutes of Health (NIH) for the Yale Specialized Progr…

Edward Chu, MD, MMS, has been named director of the National Cancer Institute-designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center, effective October 1, 2020. Dr. Chu currently serves as the deputy director of U…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Renal cancer specialist Robert A. Figlin, MD, has been named deputy director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer. The Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology will oversee a…

Moffitt Cancer CenterDave Summitt, chief information security officer at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been selected for the Federal Communication Commission’s newly formed federal advisory committee,…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Dana Dolinoy, PhD, received a $6.9 million R35 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The award is granted from the NIEH…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have launched a strategic collaboration uniting the nation’s first ind…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center at University of Haifa and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have launched a collaboration that will c…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute IntraOp Medical Corporation has announced delivery of its pre-clinical high dose rat…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Faculty members at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research are expanding the cur…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers showed that patients who already used opioids, sedatives, or antidepressants prior to colorectal surgery experience s…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Black patients with esophageal cancer are at a higher risk of death compared to white patients. Although many reasons have been suggested, a new…

Moffitt Cancer Center Issam El Naqa, PhD, joins Moffitt Cancer Center as the founding chair of its new Machine Learning Department. The new department is focused on accelerating scientific dis…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer InstituteThe radiation oncology residency program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council fo…

The University of Kansas Cancer CenterRonald Chen, MD, MPH, has been elected radiation oncology co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network Prostate Cancer Ta…

Registration is now open for the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, which will take place October 12-13 in a virtual format. Meeting registration is free for AACI cancer center members and sustaining mem…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Sanofi have announced a five-year strategic collaboration to accelerate the development …

University of Illinois Cancer Center Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has enacted a health care package that includes a proposal requiring the state’s Medicaid program to cover routine care co…

Cancer Center at Illinois In a new study, researchers report that they have dramatically broadened the potential targets of CAR T therapy — their engineered T-cells attack a variety of solid-t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Debra Friedman, MD, MS, is expanding her leadership role in improving cancer outcomes both within and beyond the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center catchment area.…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe American Society of Clinical Oncology honored Hyman B. Muss, MD, FASCO, with the 2020 Allen S. Lichter Vis…

William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, will receive AACI's Distinguished Scientist Award on October 12, during the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting. AACI is recognizing Dr. Kaelin, the Sidney Farber Professor of M…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Experts at City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are using one of the world’s most comprehensive genomic analysis tools…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A $5 million gift from the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation will create and support the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Cancer …

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A new study sheds light on proteins in particles called extracellular vesicles, which are released by tumor cells into the bloodstream and promote the spread of cancer. The…