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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have presented findings from three clinical trials that highlight results t…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Over the past 30 years there has been a considerable effort to improve early-phase oncology trials. One such effort is the Experimental …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have created a laboratory-grown three-dimensional "organoid" model that is …

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University Sendurai A. Mani, PhD, has been appointed associate director for translational oncology at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and profe…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center While it has long been recognized that drugs that block the cancer-promoting activity of estrogen reduce the risk of developing new breast cance…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and School of Dentistry found that certain drugs can change the fundamental makeup of c…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A new therapy that makes the immune system kill bone marrow cancer cells was successful in as many as 73 percent of patients in two clinical trials, a…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Norman Wolmark, MD, received the 2022 Susan G. Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction at the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Dr. Wolmark, chair…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The UF Health Cancer Center has received a three-year reaccreditation from the Commission on Cancer, or CoC, a quality program of the American College of S…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Charles Gersbach, PhD, associate professor of surgery, orthopedic surgery, and cell biology, and Duke Cancer Institute member, has been elected …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Christopher Flowers, MD, division head ad interim of cancer medicine and chair of Lymphoma and Myeloma at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, was honored with the 2022 ESMO Award for Immuno-Oncology from the European Society for Medical Oncology in recognition of her outsta…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine In a new study, the majority of individuals treated as children for Hodgkin lymphoma who are now in their 30s, showed signs of being an average of 7.7 year…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute In a new study, scientists from the Center for Tobacco Research at The Ohio State Un…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumor …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have revealed how the gene HOXA5 may work to suppress formation of b…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center David Y. Lee, MD, PhD, has been named director of radiation oncology at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. He joined UNM in September 201…

WVU Cancer Institute West Virginia University Medicine is proud to announce the appointment of Ali Hajiran, MD, as the new chief of Urologic Oncology. He specializes in treating complex cases …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD, has been named associate director for basic research at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC). Dr. …

Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center With a focus on expediting the development of early-phase clinical trials and enhancing chemoimmunotherapy responses in bladder cancer, ge…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, and Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, have been named to the 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers by Cla…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center One of every 10 patients with appendiceal cancer carries a germline genetic variant associated with cancer predisposition, according to a new study that is the …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Phase III clinical trial of the DCVax®-L cancer vaccine, conducted at the Wilmot Cancer Institute and other centers internationally, has shown that the v…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and So…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A new preclinical study, led by researchers currently at Emory University and UT Southwestern who began the work while they were at Duke University…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Kate Hitchcock, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been appointed v…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center As cancers grow and potentially spread to new parts of the body, they often shed cells and DNA into the blood stream. DNA can be analyzed for both th…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A family history of cancer and genetic variants that might be inherited appear to be important risk factors for Black men diagnosed with e…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health has completed its first set of surgeries using the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved implantable prosth…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Two years ago, when C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, joined Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to lead the myeloma program, he told Direc…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University Robert W. Sobol, PhD, has been appointed associate director for basic research and co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Legorreta Cancer C…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A University of Arizona project, with funding from the state's New Economy Initiative, creates humanlike cancer models and growth environments to help i…

AACI is pleased to add Ellis Fischel Cancer Center to its membership roster. Directed by Gerhard Hildebrandt, MD, FACS, Ellis Fischel’s strategic imperative is to use research and innovation to creat…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers from across the University of Kansas Medical Center have contributed significantly to the field of obesity research over the years. Now, the …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Roy Jensen, MD, vice chancellor and director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, has been named to the national board of directors for the American Canc…

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, FACP, has been named president and executive director of Atrium Health's cancer service line—which includes both Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute and Atrium Health Wake Forest…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved the initiation of the construction of the new UK HealthCare cancer and advanced ambulatory complex. It also approv…

Yolanda Sanchez, PhD, has been named to head the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Sanchez is currently associate director of basic sciences at Dartmouth Cancer Center. She will start in her new r…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Cancer Institute member Laura Attardi, PhD, received the National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award. Dr. Attardi's research will provide crucia…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a small study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immu…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with Gero and Genome Protection Inc., recently published new work that demo…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Andrea Porpiglia, MD, MSc, FACS, was recently inducted as a fellow into the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. Founded in 1879, the aca…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A team of researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed a nanotechnology platform that can change the way the…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone The recent development of drugs that can kill cancer cells with KRAS mutations has been a major breakthrough. But in nearly all patients…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Having completed his undergraduate and medical degrees in his native India before coming to the U.S., Shashank Cingam, MD, completed an int…

UK Markey Cancer Center The Division of Surgical Oncology is pleased to welcome Mautin Barry-Hundeyin, MD, to the UK College of Medicine Department of Surgery. Dr. Barry-Hundeyin joins the NCI…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Physician scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have published a r…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have identified an investigational therapeutic approach that could be effective against treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Results …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Myocarditis can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare, the mortality rate is nearly 50 percent.…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Shellie Ellis, PhD, has been awarded a $1.2 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to test an intervention she and her colleagues des…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health will help Winship Cancer Institute scientists investigat…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a novel treatment approach to an aggressive type of pediatric brain can…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A targeted therapy for children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma was shown to significantly reduce relapse rates when tested in a large multicenter …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed and used by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center research…

Moffitt Cancer Center Jarett Rieger, Esq., MBA, has been named Moffitt Cancer Center’s new vice president and chief innovation officer. He will continue to oversee Moffitt’s Office of Innovati…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center has announced the appointment of Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, as its inaugural associate director for cancer workfor…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Cribriform prostate cancer is an aggressive subtype of the disease characterized by its histology, but little is known about its molecular pathways. Research fr…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A dietary change could be a key to enhancing colon cancer treatment, a study from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center finds. One of the mo…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD, has been named the chair of the department of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Steidl assumes hi…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Antonio Iavarone, MD, has made a decades-long commitment to finding better treatments for glioblastoma and other aggressive brain tum…

Stanford Cancer Institute Crystal Mackall, MD, and lead author Katie Freitas, a Stanford Immunology PhD candidate and Mackall lab member, have published an article demonstrating that the Media…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke University Provost Sally Kornbluth, PhD, has been appointed president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), beginning i…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center’s efforts to increase minority accrual to cancer treatment trials got a boost from the National Cancer Institute’s Connecting Underrepresented Popul…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The new Lung Nodule Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center has launched the Geriatric Oncology Center of Excellence to address the needs of a growing patien…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced that Eyal Gottlieb, PhD, has been named the institution’s vice president for r…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The Radiation Research Society has bestowed its highest honor—the Failla Memorial Lecture Award—on Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, executive directo…

Joseph A. Califano III, MD, has been named director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. He succeeds Scott Lippman, MD, who announced in November 2021 that he would be stepping down as dir…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS, has been formally named president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center following a period of interim leadership. In addition, D…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute announces the appointment of two researchers as holders of endowed chairs at the University of Utah. Another colle…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Dina M. Jones, PhD, MPH, has received a grant to study disparities in smoking cessation among African American menthol cigarette smokers. The proj…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health has announced the appointment of physician and researcher Oren Cahlon, MD, as senior vice president and deputy chief …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding a cancer-promoting protein and how it causes tumor growth. The findings are an im…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Researchers at UT Southwestern and the University of Miami have discovered that a molecule—estrogen-related receptor gamma, …

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A team of University of Arizona researchers have developed a drug compound that appears to stop cancer cell growth in triple-negative breast cancer. The…

UK Markey Cancer Center A UK Markey Cancer Center researcher’s team developed new chemical compounds that show promise as a potential anticancer therapy to treat aggressive tumors. The new gol…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Jan Lowery, PhD, MPH, who started her career as a researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, has returned as assistant director for disseminat…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The addition of four new oncologists—Sonia T. Orcutt, MD; Cesar Giancarlo Gentille Sanchez, MD; Santanu Samanta, MD; and Anusha Jillella, MD—will …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new national survey commissioned by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The combination of an immunotherapy, PD-1 blockade, and biologic therapy, IL-2 therapy, generate higher quality effector CD8+ T cells which resembl…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone A new study, led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, has generated data…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer. UK Markey is one of around 60 centers in the nation a…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is proud to break ground on a new Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) building. The project, which include…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Health Care’s Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy program performed its 500th Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy infusion i…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Cancer Institute members Matthew Frank, MD, PhD, and David Miklos, MD, PhD, have received FDA breakthrough therapy designation on a trial using CAR22 to trea…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) welcomes Wade Christopher, MD, who will be part of the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute's…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced the establishment of its internal advisory c…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Scientists from The Tisch Cancer Institute have uncovered a mechanism by which certain breast cancer cells regulate their own metastases, fuel dissemi…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered that the organization of different types of immune cells within pa…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center A clinical trial now kicking off at Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center will test whether scalp cooling can protect Black and Latina women with te…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center was recently awarded a grant for $6 million over the course of five years to develop a new Cancer Prevention-Interception Targete…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jaye Gardiner, PhD, has received the Merton Bernfield Memorial Award, established to honor outstanding postdocs or graduate students, from the American Society…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center In Michigan, 40 percent of callers to the state’s Tobacco Quitline are menthol users. Now, a new partnership between the University of Michigan Rogel…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Finding valuable therapeutic interventions for prostate cancer has long guided the research of the lab of Feng Yang, PhD,…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Yuan Yuan, MD, PhD, a breast medical oncologist and physician scientist who specializes in triple-negative breast cancer and breast cancer immunotherapy, has joined Cedars-…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) welcomes transdisciplinary population health researcher Terry Hyslop, PhD, as co-leader of the Cancer Risk an…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and World Health Organization have announced a formal agreement to establish a new internati…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center is now a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN) as pa…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Ruth Etzioni, PhD, has received a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award, which comes with around $7.4 million in…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center An enzyme called Fic, whose biochemical role was discovered at UT Southwestern more than a dozen years ago, appears to play …