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Cheryl L. Willman, MD, has been named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. In her new role, Dr. Willman will lead the expansion a…

The AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Steering Committee, with the assistance of peer reviewers from CRI committees, have selected three abstracts from 62 submissions for formal presentation at…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Nearly 10 million cancer screenings in the U.S. failed to happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers, including the f…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Nearly a quarter of pregnant women say they’ve been around secondhand smoke—in their homes, at work, around a friend or relative—which, according to new …

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine When resecting tumors, surgeons aim to spare as much healthy tissue as possible while ensuring removal of the entire tumo…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Brandon Lennep, MD, a University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) assistant professor of cardiology, has been named to head the UMMC Cancer Center…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthMary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP, professor in the Department of Clinical Genetics and director of the Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, recently …

Registration is now open for the 2021 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, which will take place October 19-21 in a virtual format. This three-day event convenes AACI cancer center members with national cancer …

On March 4—International HPV Awareness Day—Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced the PREVENT HPV Cancers Act (H.R. 1550), which AACI has endorsed. We encourage cancer centers to reach out to …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson HealthThe American Association for Cancer Research has recognized Edith P. Mitchell, MD, with the 2021 Minorities in Cancer Research-Jane Cooke Wright Lectu…

AACI's Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host The Role of the Clinical Pharmacist in an Academic Hematology/Oncology Practice at 2:00 pm eastern time on Tuesday, August 24. This we…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have continued to draw research support, garnering more than $34…

Robert Winn, MD, director of VCU Massey Cancer Center, has been elected to serve as vice president/president-elect of AACI’s board of directors. Marcia Cruz-Correa, MD, PhD; Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP; and…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center has earned renewal of it…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New JerseyRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Director Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, has been named by the business journal NJBIZ as a 2021 Healthcare Hero in the heal…

Last month AACI welcomed the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine to its roster, bringing its membership number to 103. Directed by Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, the Meyer Cancer …

Judy E. Garber, MD, PhD, FAACR, chief of the Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will receive the AACI Distinguished Scientist Award on Wednesday, October …

Siteman Cancer Center Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is planning a nine-story, 659,000-square-foot facility that will…

Moffitt Cancer Center The family of It Works! founder Mark Pentecost has donated $10 million to Moffitt Cancer Center to establish a research center dedicated to finding a cure for multiple my…

Since President Biden first proposed the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the health care advocacy community has been eager to learn more. Last month, the National Institutes of…

Siteman Cancer CenterJeff M. Michalski, MD, MBA, vice chair and director of clinical programs in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has b…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and Seattle Children’s have announced plans to explore restructuring their long…

Moffitt Cancer Center Sarabdeep “Sabi” Singh has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Moffitt Cancer Center. Prior to joining Moffitt, Singh served as the chief o…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Younger cancer survivors—those between ages 18 and 64—faced fewer financial barriers to health care after the Affordable Care Act was implemented tha…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Cancer deaths were lower in the five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early on as part of the Affordable Care Act, c…

Stanford Cancer Institute A diet rich in fermented foods enhances gut microbe diversity and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to Stanford researchers. In a clinical trial, 3…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A new endowed professorship at The University of Kansas Cancer Center has been named to honor Carol Fabian, MD, founder of the cancer center’s Breast Can…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center analyzed the variation in vaccination rates among boys and girls within zip codes in Virginia. The results showed…

Cedars-Sinai CancerNeil Bhowmick, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer, was one of 10 Indian American scientists honored by the Society of Asian American Scientists i…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nancy Davis, MD, has been promoted to vice president for cancer care network and strategy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a new position responsible fo…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers Paul B. Fisher, MPh, PhD, FNAI, and Xiang-Yang (Shawn) Wang, PhD, were recently awarded $2.3 million in total fundin…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR MedicineLynne E. Maquat, PhD, founding director of the University of Rochester’s Center for RNA Biology, received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in recognition of pi…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Marcus Zachariah, MD, is co-lead author of a study on breast cancer brain metastasis, "HIF1A signaling selectively supports proliferation of breast ca…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center With a $2.26 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Rogel Cancer Center researcher Christine Veenstra, MD, MSHP, will seek to understand t…

Cancer Center at Illinois A new approach to treating breast cancer kills 95-100 percent of cancer cells in mouse models of human estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancers and their metastases …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UCSF researchers are beginning to engineer much more complex living therapeutics by tapping into the innate capabilities of living cells to…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Urologic surgical oncologist Michael Cookson, MD, MHA, FACS, has been appointed chief of the Duke Division of Urology. He will join Duke f…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthElizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently appointed medical oncology editor f…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, director of the Office of Community Engagement at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, founded Um…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers found that multiple myeloma patients mount variable and sometimes suboptimal responses after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech or …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Susan G. Komen has announced breast cancer research grants, including $1.2 million in funding for three separate initiatives led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Cen…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice Unive…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent study demonstrated the benefit of utilizing drugs to promote radiation sensitivity in models of a rare tumor subtype. The research, conducted in the lab of Pio…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A study led by Wilmot Cancer Institute researchers describes a three-step process for attacking leukemia and its significance for patients who face acute m…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, vice chancellor and director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sc…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A highly specialized UAMS research team that serves as a national resource recently helped the University of North Carolina discover a key driver …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Myron Schwartz, MD, is director of the new Center of Excellence for Liver and Bile Duct Cancer at Mount Sinai’s Tisch Cancer Institute.Read …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah has announced the appointment of Howard Colman, MD, PhD, as the new co-leader of t…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found specific intestinal microbiota signatures correlate with high-grade a…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The oral targeted therapy drug ibrutinib is an effective treatment option for high-r…

Stanford Cancer Institute Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have built an inflammatory-aging clock that can predict how s…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute A study by The Wistar Institute describes an important function of alternative polyadenylation (APA) in allowing certain mRNAs to …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by Fumito Ito, MD, PhD, FACS, of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reports new data on the promise of combining standard tre…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center A UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center study, led by Stephanie Fine, MD, compared three-dimensional tomosynthesis mammography to digital mammogr…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Like a mystery detective, Sara G.M. Piccirillo, PhD, is hunting deadly bad actors in brain cancer and immune cells by studying the crime sc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthThree researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Prevention and Control Program were recognized by Temple University with the Social & Behavioral Sciences Commu…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A new study reports that one third of the most popular cancer treatment articles on social media contain misinformation. Further, the vast m…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The Mount Sinai Health System has announced a $60 million gift from James S. and Merryl H. Tisch to establish the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center. Thi…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center launched a new initiative to create a connected, integrated statewide cancer provider network. The initiative, which inc…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a subtype of cancer cells that could help predict how bladder cancers respond to certain therapies. Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, dir…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine has been awarded more than $20.7 million through 11 grants from the Cancer Prevention & Re…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study led by Kevin Nead, MD, and researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found a significant association between …

University of Florida Health Cancer CenterUF Health Cancer Center Director Jonathan Licht, MD, has received the 2021 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Mentor Award. The ASH Honorific Awards are …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine When Tracy Downs decided to quit smoking, she had little faith that it would actually happen. Having smoked for 26 years, including while she received trea…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Care Is Different, a coalition-based campaign effort to improve patient access to advanced cancer care in California, applauds the state Assembl…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, has been named deputy director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. His elevation to deputy director follows his promotion to director of t…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center An influential figure in cancer immunotherapy has returned to his Western New York roots to take on leadership roles at Roswell Park Comprehensive Canc…

AACI will honor Robert A. Winn, MD, with the inaugural AACI Cancer Health Equity Award during the 2021 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually October 19-21. Dr. Winn is AACI’s vice pr…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK HealthCare recently launched a new Pediatric Neuroendocrine Tumor Clinical and Research Program to improve treatment for children diagnosed with or at high risk for …

University of Virginia Cancer Center After reviewing outcomes of almost 14,000 patients with colorectal cancer, researchers determined that ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, and thiazide diuretic…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Chicago researchers have found lasofoxifene outperformed fulvestrant, the current gold-standard drug, in reducing o…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH, has been named interim director of the Breast Cancer Disease Group at Duke Cancer Institute. In 2016, Time magazin…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have described a prediction model they have created that includes information calculated from computed tomography images that can identi…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Gregory Riggins, MD, PhD, and his team used two different mouse models to determine that the anti-parasitic drug mebendazo…

Stanford Cancer Institute Great strides have been made in recent years combining artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging to improve cancer diagnosis. Now a research team led by Stanfo…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A biomarker that has proven to be a predictor for response to immunotherapies in melanoma patients also has clinical relevance for breast cancer patients, accor…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a grant of more than $4 million by the National Cancer Institute for a large-scale study …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The fiscal year 2022 New Jersey state budget included a $10 million appropriation to support pediatric cancer research. This legislation will support the…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthDavid S. Weinberg, MD, MSc, chair of the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named one of two new editors-in-chief of Gastroenterol…

Siteman Cancer CenterCarmen R. Bergom, MD, PhD, a Washington University associate professor of radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected to a three-year term as a councilor-at-l…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center It’s a scientific riddle tangled up in a complex web. How do you turn an immune cold cancer into one that responds to immunotherapy? Researchers led …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah New research reports how two separate DNA changes appear to predict aggressive childhood leukemias when they occur in combination. Over the …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Combining a histone deacetylase inhibitor drug with immunotherapy agents is safe, and may benefit some patients with advan…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer CenterBeth Karlan, MD, director of cancer populations at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from th…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope researchers looked at the most common type of metastatic colorectal cancer and discovered that these patients are more responsive to check…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center In the wake of findings that COVID-19 virus variants are more likely to spring from patients with weakened immune systems, Lawrence Corey, MD, and other leading m…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Moffitt Cancer Center received a five-y…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Mayumi Nakagawa, MD, PhD, was awarded $3.6 million from the National Cancer Institute to complete Phase II clinical trials of PepCan, a breakthrou…

Stanford Cancer Institute CAR T-cell therapy works for many types of blood cancers, but more than half of patients relapse. Stanford researchers studied whether simultaneously targeting two mo…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center New research from the University of Chicago shows that low doses of a four-drug combination help prevent the spread of cancer in …

AACI invites you to promote your cancer center by purchasing an ad in the 2021 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting program. The digital program book offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your center while…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The global COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to live in relative isolation fo…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A new study shows that women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, who were exercising moderately or vigorously before chemotherapy (getting the recommended …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Patients with various forms of pancreatic disease are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and other conditions that negatively impact…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A drug used to treat certain advanced breast cancers may offer a new treatment option for a deadly blood cancer known as myelofibrosis, new research from U…

Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers in Moffitt Cancer Center’s Lung Cancer Center of Excellence believe a combination of checkpoint inhibitors with adoptive cell therapy could be the answer for …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Rachel Katzenellenbogen, MD, has joined Susan Rawl, PhD, and Todd Skaar, PhD, as a co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and C…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center is launching a Mobile Cancer Screening program to better serve vulnerable populations in Greater …