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Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Aik Choon Tan, PhD, has been appointed senior director of data science at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and will also serve as a member of…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Sophia George, PhD, the inaugural associate director of diversity, equity, and inclus…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center During an event marking a decade of the Chuckstrong initiative, more than $2 million was raised for the Indiana University …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Kimberly Leslie, MD, was awarded a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the Department of Defense to further study high-risk uterine cancer. …

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center report the results of a clinical trial exploring the role of stereotactic ab…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Worried about health effects from the U.S.’s increasingly smoky summers? One day, you may be able to pop a few pills that will help your cells pinpoint and extrac…

Moffitt Cancer Center Sarasota resident Phebe Morgan has made a $5 million gift to Moffitt Cancer Center to honor her lifelong love who had oral cancer. A longtime smoker, Glenn Hoffman was fi…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Laura Calvi, MD, a leader at the Wilmot Cancer Institute and the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Medicine, has been voted president-elect of…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Wilmot Cancer Institute scientist published data that show a new microchip-like device that his lab developed can reliably model changes in the bone marr…

Siteman Cancer Center A grant to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will support research into understanding lung cancer recurrence. Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, and his colleagu…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The NCI recently awarded Larry Fong, MD, an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35). These awards support investigators with outstanding recor…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Following a national search, David Darr has been named associate director of administration and senior director for research strategy and …

UK Markey Cancer Center Physicians and researchers from UK HealthCare's Transplant Center and the UK Markey Cancer Center conducted a study of patients over the age of 70 with hepatocellular c…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center New research from Vanderbilt investigators suggests that clinicians should take a deeper dive into distinguishing EGFR mutations when prescribing targeted thera…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Family medicine doctor Nicholas Shungu, MD, focuses on reducing health disparities, patient by patient, day by day, in his practice…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine received a five-year, $5.5 million-plus grant from the National Cancer Institut…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center After a decade of researching inequities in clinical trials with a team of researchers and physicians in cancer digital health, Hala Borno,…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced the establishment of its scientific adviso…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, a leading expert on tobacco-related health disparities and co-founder of the National Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Research…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A gift of more than $5.75 million from anonymous donors will allow UVA Cancer Center to speed the development of new treatments for rare blood cancers and …

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a $9.5 million National Cancer Institute Program Project grant to …

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai investigators have created bio-realistic and complex computer models of individual brain cells, in unparalleled quantity. Their research details how these mode…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, and his team from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, studying the molecular landscape of over 500 patients wit…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently renewed the University of Arizona Cancer Center’s status as an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center a…

Association of American Cancer Institutes AACI was saddened to learn that Mary "Dicey" Jackson Scroggins passed away on August 1. In her keynote at the 2021 AACI CRI Annual Meeting, she advoca…

Association of American Cancer Institutes In an interview with HemOnc Today, AACI President Caryn Lerman, PhD, said, "There’s an awareness of limited diversity at the highest levels of leaders…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center While children receiving chemotherapy routinely undergo hearing tests, adults don’t, and a new study by UC San Francisco reports for the fi…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) surgeon-scientist Tammara Lynn Watts, MD, PhD, has been named associate director of Equity, Diversity and Incl…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced that Donna Hansel, MD, PhD, has been named division head of pathology and labo…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) announced that nine outpatient oncology group practices have achieved certification through the new …

President Joe Biden has appointed Carol Brown, MD, FACOG, FACS;Elizabeth Jaffee, MD; and Mitchel Berger, MD, FACS, FAAN, to the President’s Cancer Panel. Dr. Brown is senior vice president and chief …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Eunyoung Choi, PhD, and colleagues identified for the first time that Trop2+/CD133+/CD166+ dysplastic stem cells are a key source of clonal evolution of dysplas…

Moffitt Cancer Center To analyze images of tissue specimens to their fullest potential, scientists ideally need an application that enables multiple images to be viewed simultaneously. In a re…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Two new innovations could make it easier to decipher when cancers that impact women are present and need urgent attention. A system to detect circulating t…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University In an investigator-sponsored study, 91 percent of participants with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) experienc…

UK Markey Cancer Center The UK Markey Cancer Center’s Community Impact Office recently launched Cancer InFocus: Kentucky – a new, online data mapping application that allows users to explore c…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Although there has been a significant increase in the number of U.S. residents insured through Medicaid since the expansion of the Patient Protectio…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center UT Southwestern is joining with medical centers around the nation to apply advanced sequencing to pediatric brain tumors as …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The Cancer Research Institute announced two UCSF investigators in the newest cohort of scientists chosen for the Lloyd J. Old STAR Program …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA Health’s Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division has been designated a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence by the Societ…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Zambia are partnering on a program to develop a cadre of researchers and educators to lead cancer epi…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A new study conducted by Winship Cancer Institute finds that COVID-19 vaccines are much less effective for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and c…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Marc Botnick, MD, has been named regional medical director for radiation oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. His primary clinical practice site will be at Cedars-Sinai Tarzana…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have been awarded a Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Health Disparity Research Award for New Investigators. T…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center University of Michigan and Rogel Cancer Center researchers have discovered brain tumors contain highly active cells that move throughout tissue in co…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical trials form the backbone of the care provided at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. "At the end of the day, everything we do that is…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Data collected by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immu…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Howard Sandler, MD, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer, has been named president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). H…

Moffitt Cancer Center Turnstone Biologics Corp. and Moffitt Cancer Center have announced the formation of a broad strategic alliance, deepening their existing multi-year research collaboration…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced Kimberly Hoggatt Krumwiede, PhD, as dean of MD Anderson’s School of Health Pro…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a $3 million grant to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptis…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded $4.2 million over five years to Mount Sinai resea…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A study that surveyed cancer screening data included in medical journals worldwide from January 2020 into December 2021 showed significant decreases in the number of …

In 2021, AACI surveyed members on diversity in cancer center leadership. A group led by Caryn Lerman, PhD, AACI president and director of USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared the results of…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A team of researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center were the first to generate a bona fide mouse model of a Merkel cell carcinoma…

Cancer Center at Illinois Developed by Cancer Center at Illinois scientists, an innovative camera technology recently led to a $9 million award from the National Cancer Institute in which rese…

UK Markey Cancer Center Kentucky has established a lung cancer screening program, supported by the Kentucky Cancer Consortium (KCC) Lung Cancer Network—with over 100 organizations—and the Kent…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Surveillance programs for people at high risk of developing pancreatic cancers can help detect precancerous conditions and…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Coral Omene, MD, PhD, medical oncologist in the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, has been awarded a grant …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has selected Chyke A. Doubeni, MBBS,…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC) has been designated a "Comprehensive" cancer center – the highest level of recognition award by the Nationa…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone A team of New York City lung cancer experts, led by investigators at NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center, have received a thre…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have revealed a mechanism by which prostate cancer cells become resistant through molecular modification of the androgen receptor protei…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Experts from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have analyzed patient samples, along with studies conducted in animal models, to identify a novel immune checkpoint pathway to treat hepato…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study led by Joel Palefsky, MD, found that routine screening for and removal of precancerous anal lesions can significantly reduce th…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a Phase II clinical trial, immune checkpoint blockade before surgery was associated with favorable responses and outcomes in undifferentiat…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that an advanced radiotherapy technique called radiation segmentectomy may be effecti…

WVU Cancer Institute Edward Harrison has joined the WVU Cancer Institute as its vice president of cancer services. His first day on the job was May 16. Prior to WVU, he served in various leade…

University of Colorado Cancer Center With more than 20 years of experience in gene therapy and personalized medicine, Hatim Sabaawy, MD, PhD, steps into the role of associate director of trans…

UK Markey Cancer Center The UK Markey Cancer Center has received a $5 million gift to establish the Ambassador William Stamps Farish Program of Excellence in Urologic Cancer. Read Mo…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A Duke Cancer Institute study led by Gayathri Devi, PhD, finds chronic stresses such as racism and poverty alter cellular functions that p…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers at Roswell Park, led by Dhyan Chandra, PhD, have uncovered evidence that could lead to the development of a new treatment option …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health New research shows in an animal model that using viral and bacterial vaccine approaches together is safe and far more effective at fighting trea…

The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center The Glioma Longitudinal Analysis Consortium (GLASS) is investigating why gliomas develop resistance and recur. By analyzing tumor samples from patients bef…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University New laboratory research directed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomber…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research leader with a record of important discoveries in cancer biology and precision therapeutics, Roswell Park’s Erik Knudsen, PhD, has been promo…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Stacy L. Palmer, MBA, has joined Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University as the new vice president of cancer clinical administration and strat…

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has announced a new community outreach and engagement (COE) leadership team to help develop targeted interventions that will l…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center researchers have released the results of a clinical trial that examined the effectiveness of varenicline in Africa…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A study of the lead agent (CPI-613) in a class of anticancer drugs undergoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials reveals that CPI-613 is effec…

University of Colorado Cancer Center For Sharon Pine, PhD, racial and economic disparities in cancer diagnosis and care add an urgency to lung cancer research. Dr. Pine will bring that motivat…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center After losing a close friend to acute myeloid leukemia, Kris Wood, PhD, devoted his research to helping find better treatment options for p…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have validated for the first time that a liquid biopsy could be a better predictor of whether cancer immunotherapy will be suc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH, has been awarded a 2022 Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award, which supports future research leaders and ensures they receiv…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new study, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers report on their identification of biomarkers based on a type of genetic modification called methylation that predicts th…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Male sex hormones interfere with the body’s ability to fight bladder cancer, likely explaining why males experience higher cancer rates and more deadly disease, according t…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A team of scientists from Stony Brook Cancer Center and Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University believe they have found a new process through which d…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Androgen receptor signaling affects response to BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy in both males and females with melanoma, researchers from MD Anders…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center An unexpected trick in cancer’s playbook may fool an important component of our immune systems into knocking down our natural defenses against solid tumors. Scien…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New data show that ammonia—typically known as a waste byproduct from protein degrada…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Heath D. Skinner, MD, PhD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, effective July 1. Clinically, he will focus on advancing UPMC Hillman Ca…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A $10 million gift from the Brock family will establish the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The gift will ac…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Sameer Patel, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently inducted into the American Assoc…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Carlos Ortiz-Bonilla, a Puerto Rican native who has been studying science at the University of Rochester (UR) for the past seven years, is the first gradua…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Cancer screening guidelines published last year expand eligibility for those at high risk for lung cancer, and new research shows that they also…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A novel, automated liquid biopsy test in development by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center can accurate…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has been awarded an $11 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to support research aimed at …

Selwyn M. Vickers, MD, FACS, a pancreatic cancer surgeon and researcher and pioneer in cancer health disparities research, has been selected to serve as the next president and chief executive officer…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is implementing a new statewide patient navigation program to help cancer patients across the st…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center An estimated one-quarter of adults in the U.S. have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an excess of fat in liver cell…