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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and The Ohio State Univ…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Innova Therapeutics Inc., rare pediatric disease designation for IVT-8086 f…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco scientists have launched a precision medicine initiative to offer free voluntary whole genome sequencing to all UCSF Healt…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Lois B. Travis, MD, ScD, at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a fi…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Women are underrepresented in the field of academic surgery, but women surgeons are earning a disproportionate share of research grants from the National I…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Overlap syndromes are distinct blood cancers that have features of both myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). The most common …

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute has appointed Ami Patel, PhD, as a Caspar Wistar Fellow in the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center. Her research…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A $3.7 million grant, part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will support a clinical trial designed to test a personalized family genetic…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by researchers at UK Markey Cancer Center highlighted differences in patient diagnosis and treatment in those with non-small cell lung cancer across the sta…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Whether a liver cancer cell is primed to grow or move affects its ability to resist cancer drugs, according to new work from researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Having dedicated his career to developing better treatments for cancer, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP, has be…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With the aid of a $3.1 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey leaders Eileen White, PhD, Edmund L…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Overall health care costs decreased for patients at clinics participating in Arkansas Blue Cross and Shield value-based primary care programs, acc…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Efstathios "Stathis” Karathanasis, PhD and William Schiemann, PhD are leading a team of researchers from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke Universi…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center have received a $2.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to look at how HPV behaves in patients…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Studies will allow Justin Leung, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medi…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant to fund 3D gene imaging research at Yale Cancer Center. Th…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center is launching a nationwide study to help educate oncologists and address health care disparities among LGBTQ+ patients. The study’s findings will inf…

UK Markey Cancer Center The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1,163,869 grant to the University of Kentucky to develop state-of-the-art metabolomics data analysis tools th…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Analyzing data for about 16,500 advanced colorectal cancer patients, City of Hope researchers found that Black people are more likely than other ethnic…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC) has announced two leadership roles focused on quality and safety in cancer care. Mark…

Stanford Cancer Institute Michael Lim, MD, has been appointed chair of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery. He joined Stanford from the Johns Hopkins Univer…

Siteman Cancer CenterJulie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, a Washington University professor of radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected vice president of the Radiation Research Society. …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Of any racial group, African-American men have the lowest five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer. A major contributing factor is low …

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Patients treated for bladder cancer with a surgery known as radical cystectomy have worse outcomes if they are smokers, according to a systematic review …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s status as a community site of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) has be…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In laboratory studies, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University researchers observed a key step in …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD, MEd, has been named associate dean for population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She also joins The Universit…

Siteman Cancer Center Jiayi Huang, MD, has been named chief of the central nervous system/Gamma Knife service at Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center. He had been…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthFox Chase Cancer Center’s Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, was recently admitted to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. He is chief o…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, has been appointed as associate director for population sciences at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, starting…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah5 For the Fight, a global movement inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer, has announced the inaugural recipients of the 5 For …

The 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting will virtually convene AACI cancer center members with national cancer research and advocacy groups, industry, and government health agencies on October 12-13. At tw…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Researchers at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health have reported that genetic testing is cost-effective and beneficial for newly diagnosed patients wi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A nationwide clinical trial funded by the National Cancer Institute and now open at VCU Massey Cancer Center will examine the short- and long-term outcom…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study by researchers at OSUCCC – James shows that RNA nanoparticles have elast…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine James B. Yu, MD, MHS, has been promoted to associate chief Medical officer for radiation oncology for Smilow Cancer Hospital and Smilow Cancer Hospi…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer CenterBreast cancer researcher Stuart S. Martin, PhD, has been installed as the inaugural Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Pro…

Moffitt Cancer Center Targeted therapy with BRAF-MEK inhibitors is effective against advanced melanoma that cannot be surgically removed or has spread to other areas of the body. However, many…

Stanford Cancer Institute There are currently two main ways of treating ocular melanoma: radiation therapy or removal of the eye. Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, and Darius Moshfeghi, MD, are invest…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research from a team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center explains how radiation helps boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer in co…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Results from a Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center suggest that a combination of ipilimumab…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine may open the door to an entirely new approach to treating cancer: by disrupting a vital cond…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai Cancer is continuing to expand its clinical and investigative research staff with the addition of several new faculty scientists who bring a breadth of experti…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Ruth O’Regan, MD, chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the next chair of medicine at th…

This fall, AACI will welcome new members to its Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) and Government Relations (GR) Forum steering committees. The new members will formally assume their duties during th…

AACI is seeking recommendations for the Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) Steering Committee. The PCLI steering committee helps guide the activities of the initiative, identify barriers…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A team of researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center received an $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to …

UK Markey Cancer CenterB. Mark Evers, MD, FACS, director of UK Markey Cancer Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Evers was elected for his expertise on intestinal horm…

Indiana University School of Medicine has announced the hiring of Kelvin Lee, MD, to lead the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, bolstered by a $15 million fund est…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Walther Cancer Foundation will invest $11 million to advance collaborative cancer research at Indiana University and Pu…

Jan Kitajewski, PhD, has been appointed director of the University of Illinois (UI) Cancer Center effective November 13, 2020. He has served as interim director since December 2019 and joined UI Canc…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and OSUCC – James have been…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Ginny L. Clements has given $8.5 million to the UArizona Cancer Center to strengthen the center's breast cancer patient care and research programs. She …

Results from a leadership diversity survey conducted by AACI in partnership with The Cancer Letter (TCL) show that there’s a long road ahead in confronting cancer disparities in the oncology leadersh…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will receive more than $7.3 million from the National Cancer Institute as part of its new…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai has been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to study the diversity and determinants of the immune-inflammatory response t…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Nearly 1 in 8 commercially insured patients nationwide who underwent an elective colonoscopy between 2012 and 2017 performed by an in-network provider rece…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been named executive director of the Mays Cancer Center. The appointment broadens Dr. Mesa's scope of responsi…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Deirdre J. Cohen, MD, MS, has joined Mount Sinai Health System as director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program and medical director of the Cancer…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Michaela A. Dinan, PhD, has been appointed co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center beginning January 1…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson David Gius, MD, PhD, a breast cancer and radiation researcher, has joined the Mays Cancer Center. He was recruited from the Robert H. Lu…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Focus Fund GP, LLC, in partnership with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has launched Cancer Focus Fund, LP, an oncology…

Cancer Center at Illinois Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement betwe…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A new study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has discovered that mutations found in cancers do not accumulate randomly, …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Risk for melanoma can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to A. Hunter Shain, PhD, who led a new study to…

Siteman Cancer Center A broad collaboration of scientists co-led by Robert Schreiber, PhD, has identified five features of neoantigens that optimize the ability to trigger T cells to attack ca…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center With a new $7.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Rogel Cancer Center researchers and their national collaborators will test whether …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer CenterAntoni Ribas, MD, PhD, has been named to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized for defining the mechanistic basis of how patients respond to or…

UK Markey Cancer CenterCardiothoracic surgeon Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, has started a two-year term as chair of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. He serves as m…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical CenterThe national breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen® has announced that Donald McDonnell, PhD, is one of two breast cancer researchers named …

Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, MD, associate chair of surgery for cancer services and a native West Virginian, has been named the permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute after having served in the pos…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A study from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has the potential to change how patients whose prostate cancer recurs after prostatectomy…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center In his previous role at Moffitt Cancer Center, Said Sebti, PhD, and colleagues discovered FGTI-2734, a drug that overcomes a major hurdle in halting the …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center After serving as interim director since January 1, Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, has been named director of the division of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt Univer…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have secured $4 million in funding fr…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute OSUCCC – James and the Ohio State College of Pharmacy have been awarded a five-year,…

The coronavirus pandemic has challenged the cancer research community in countless ways, and the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting was no exception. Held virtually for the first time during two days in O…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Subhamoy Dasgupta, PhD, has received a five-year, $2.52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support investigations into how communi…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthColleen Tetzlaff, MHS, PA-C, an advanced practice clinician at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named president of the Association of Physician Assistants…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health were more likely to survive or experience a longer period without t…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida Health researchers Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, MD, PhD, and Michael McIntosh, PhD, and their collaborators have published new rese…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have genetically modified h…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A promising new biomarker that appears in patients before stomach cancer develops may help with early detection of the disease and improve patient respo…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Interim Dean Stanton L. Gerson, MD, has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. Dr. Ge…

AACI's Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) has published a digital book of abstracts and posters from the 12th Annual AACI CRI Meeting. The book features 77 abstracts from 31 cancer centers submitted …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a drug that activates the body’s natural defenses by behaving like a virus …

Moffitt Cancer Center For patients with non-small cell lung cancer, two major treatment strategies have emerged: tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, choosing …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center In a large randomized clinical trial, researchers evaluated the immunotherapy drug avelumab for patients with advanced urothelial cancer. And the findings of the …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Brad Cairns, PhD, has accepted an appointment as chief academic officer at Huntsman Cancer Institute. In addition, Alana Welm, PhD, has acce…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has received a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to support the Rutgers Youth Enjoy…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical CenterThe Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO) presented the third annual Mary Pazdur Award for Excellence in Advanced Pr…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Opioids for pain relief are often a necessity for cancer patients, but opioid use comes with its own set of risks. Two papers published by researchers at…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Peng Mao, PhD, and his team have discovered an intricate series of events that cells use to repair DNA, finding that in transcription-coupl…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has quantified the impact of repealing the 201…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Research Project Cooperative Agreement grant to Yale Cancer Center. The two-year, $1.4 million U01 a…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and the most costly to treat. Now, Jefferson researchers have shown that although th…

At the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, AACI President Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, announced plans for her presidential initiative, which will leverage the expertise of North America's 102 leading canc…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Ambitious efforts at the UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread to the brain have yielded important insights a…