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VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A study by VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers shows that triplatin is effective against triple negative breast cancer. Triplatin, a 30-year-old drug, h…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has named Sanjay Goel, MD, MS, as director of its Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program. He is also a profe…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ten years ago, the University of Kansas Clinical Research Center opened its doors. The facility looked like a building in a suburban office park, not a p…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah An international study of colorectal cancer called the ColoCare study has received a five-year renewal and $10 million to fuel new innovatio…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH, associate research professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently recognize…

"After implementing Patient Resource Guides, 60 percent of patients who came from other cancer programs for a second opinion selected our center to receive their care." - Mark S. Roh, MD, Former Pres…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers with the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine have been awarded more than $…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone When Abraham Chachoua, MD, walks into a patient’s room, he stays for a while. His patients are an extension of his family, and he loves …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A Phase II study led by Anwaar Saeed, MD, and investigators at The University of Kansas Cancer Center shows promising efficacy in people with metastatic …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, is stepping down on June 30 to focus on a combined leadership role for Vanderbilt Univ…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Raymond N. (Ray) DuBois, MD, PhD, will join the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research as executive chairman of the board. He will ass…

Last month President Joe Biden announced a relaunch of the White House Cancer Moonshot. To implement the plan, the administration will convene a "cancer cabinet" of government officials with the goal…

On February 17, an opinion piece co-authored by AACI President Caryn Lerman, PhD, and Vice President/President-elect Robert A. Winn, MD, appeared on TheHill.com. In "Ending Cancer As We Know It," Drs…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Craig B. Thompson, MD, has announced his intention to step down as president and chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. T…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University will radically expand treatment options for liver and liver-related metabolic diseases thanks to a historic $104 million…

Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, Cornelius Abernathy Craig Professor of Medicine, and deputy director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named the center’s new director. Park will begin ser…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medic…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using data from over 300 patient tumors, UC San Francisco researchers have described 12 classes of "immune archetypes" to classify cancer t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Gerald Arthur Grant, MD, an internationally known surgeon-scientist, has been named the new chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Duk…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Bobbie J. Rimel, MD, has been appointed medical director for the Cancer Clinical Trials Office (CCTO) at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. Dr. Rimel’s research has focused on clinical t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The first study to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of fully vaccinated patients with cancer who had breakthrough COVID-19 infections indicate…

Siteman Cancer Center Geoffrey L. Uy, MD, a Washington University physician at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named co-chair of the Leukemia Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in O…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center has been conducting research on disparities in prostate cancer, specifically evaluating the interplay between social and biological mechanisms that …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that chemotherapy after surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma is significantly…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center University of Arizona Cancer Center Member Jennifer Barton, MD, has spent nearly a decade developing a falloposcope to detect ovarian cancer in its earl…

University of Illinois Cancer Center Researchers from the University of Illinois Cancer Center have developed a compound that more than doubles mean survival time in animal models of pancreati…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center On March 1, Renato G. Martins, MD, MPH, will become the new chair of hematology, oncology and palliative care at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Departm…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Faith E. Davies, MD, has been appointed the inaugural director of the Center for Blood Cancers at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery and co-director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Amy Jo Jenkins, MS, CCRP, has been named associate director of administration for the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Succeeding Je…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center To investigate mutations in a key cancer-promoting genetic pathway, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers led the development of a melan…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Over the past four years, Manali Kamdar, MD, has been the lead investigator on a global, multicenter, Phase III clinical study that shows that Breyanzi (li…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a color-coded test that quickly signals whether newly developed nanopart…

University of Colorado Cancer Center The University of Colorado Cancer Center is pleased to announce several leadership transitions. Patricia Ernst, PhD, will join Tin Tin Su, PhD, as co-leade…

Stanford Cancer Institute A combination of anti-cancer antibodies produced a powerfully synergistic response in two hard-to-treat pediatric cancers, according to a new study in mice, led by re…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Some women with BRCA-1 mutations choose to have their breasts or ovaries and fallopian tubes surgically removed even though they may never develop cancers in these tissues.…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida researchers have developed a new genomics-based score to deliver more personalized and effective chemotherapy treatments to ped…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A new data portal called Cancer-Immu established by a team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center biostatisticians can help cancer clinicians and researchers p…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A blood test, combined with a risk model based on an individual’s history, more accurately determines who is likely to benefit from lung cance…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has named David C. Smith, MD, chief medical officer and associate director for cancer clinical …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Cheryl Sampson, MBA, has joined the Clinical Research Office at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. She brings more than 20 years of exper…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Two University of Mississippi Medical Center physicians have been honored by the American Cancer Society for partnering with the nonprofit in preventing and…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The combination of two novel immune therapy agents could be an effective new treatme…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone A new risk score can identify men and women under age 50 most likely to develop a cancer of the colon or rectum, an international study …

University of Virginia Cancer Center Women who live in urban and rural areas get screened for breast cancer at similar rates, but rural women get screened for colorectal cancer at significantl…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Candice Lucas, EdD, MBA, has been named Wilmot Cancer Institute’s first chief community impact officer. The position is located within the Community Outrea…

Moffitt Cancer Center Elsa R. Flores, PhD, has been named Moffitt Cancer Center’s associate center director of basic science. In her new role, Dr. Flores will oversee the Basic Science Divisio…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center member Asrar Malik, PhD, was awarded the 2021 Solbert Permutt Trailblazer Award in Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine by the …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University When thousands of schools transitioned to online learning in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many children with cancer …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A collaborative research team led by scientists from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has det…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The National Cancer Institute has awarded Mount Sinai researchers Arvin Dar, PhD, Ernesto Guccione, PhD, and Amaia Lujambio, PhD, $3.15 million in gra…

Of more than 85,000 patients surveyed: Improves outcomes: 95% state the guides assist them in following their doctor’s treatment plan Increases market share: 90% report the guides will influence the…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nashville Biosciences, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has announced an agreement with Illumina, a leading genomic technology…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Chicago Medicine breast cancer expert Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, has been named the recipient of this year’s William L. Mc…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Less than half of Americans understand that alcohol consumption increases cancer risk, and a majority of people surveyed say they would support warning lab…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Research led by scientists at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA provides new insights into molecular "crosstalk" in pancreas cancer cells…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Scientific evidence supporting the involvement of the enzyme MAPK4 in cancer growth and resistance to certain therapies h…

Stanford Cancer Institute Pathologist Paul Mischel, MD, and postdoctoral scholar Junfeng Bi, PhD, have discovered that fluoxetine (commonly known as Prozac) appears to target glioblastoma, at …

Siteman Cancer Center Alexander H. Stegh, PhD, a leading brain cancer scientist, has been named research director of the Brain Tumor Center at Siteman Cancer Center, which brings together the …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The American Cancer Society (ACS) has hired Arif Kamal MD, MBA, MHS, FACP, FAAHPM, FASCO, as its first chief patient officer to lead its p…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center According to a new study co-authored by Joseph McGuirk, DO, a form of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy known by its brand name, Yescarta …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The FANS (Female Asian Never Smokers) Study aims to collect data from Asian American women to shed light on the issue of non-smoking lung c…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Grasping the genetic mutations that drive non-small cell lung cancer has led to new treatments. Yet when a patient is diagnosed with an alteration in…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has approved a purchase agreement for $6.9 million to acquire residential parcels across from UK Albert B. Chandler Hospita…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Massey Cancer Center is working with analytics company SAS to power vital research into higher cancer and mortality rates among low-income and vulnerable…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) has appointed M. Eileen Dolan, PhD, as its deputy director…

As part of the presidential initiative of Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, AACI surveyed its members in 2020 to understand catchment area coverage. Results of the survey were published in a manuscript, "A…

The George Washington University (GW) is pleased to announce that Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, will join its academic medical enterprise to serve as the director of GW Cancer Center in March 2022. In th…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center An international research team co-led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Cent…

Dr. Wendy Brewster is associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. A story in the “Leadership Transitions” section of the December 2021 AACI U…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center The new Massey Cancer Center Community Grant Program will help community partners expand programs focused on the promotion of health, health equity, pers…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center member Jiyeon Kim, PhD, received a four-year grant from the American Cancer Society to investigate whether the pathway…

Stanford Cancer Institute The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infection in most cancer patients, according to a nationwide study of veterans diagnosed with cancer in t…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah have created a device, named URSKIN, that exploits changes in the electr…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center led a large international study providing what is believed to be the first evidence (albeit ind…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey In a recent viewpoint paper, investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School explored how artificial intell…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health New research shows that women with advanced melanoma are twice as likely as men to die when treated with a combination of the checkpoint inhibit…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Rebecca (Becky) Cammy, LCSW, manager of social work at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health, has been accepted into the Cambia Health F…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center hematology experts in leukemia, lymphoma, and other specialties presented new research at the 63rd annual meet…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center have identified a drug compound that makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy. Studying mi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The University of Florida Health Cancer Center announces two leadership changes aimed at advancing innovation and excellence in cancer research, care…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has named computational biologist Robert Bradley, PhD, scientific director of the Hutch’s Translational Data Science Integr…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center Since 2004, only two therapies have been approved for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma, which affects about 3,000 people a year in the United Sta…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified growth hormone in the colon that increases as the colon ages – a discovery that can help guide the development of a new anti-a…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, a qu…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Combination therapies including venetoclax and another therapy have displayed promising results against subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia(AML…

Moffitt Cancer Center Results from the ZUMA-7 clinical trial, led by Frederick Locke, MD, vice chair of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy Departmen…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A team of Vanderbilt researchers has revealed some of the mechanisms by which polyps develop into colorectal cancer, setting the framework for improved surveill…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Women who live in urban and rural areas get screened for breast cancer at similar rates, but rural women get screened for colorectal cancer at significantl…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A subgroup analysis of a Phase III study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found consistent progression-free survival …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Roman Skoracki, MD, has been named medical director of the Stefanie Spielman Compreh…

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University received a $2,997,215 federal grant to help determine why African Americans show poorer r…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever drug to be used for the prevention of acute graft versus host disease (aGVH…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Wilmot Cancer Institute researchers are a step closer to understanding the complex gene interactions that cause a cell to become malignant. In a new study,…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center In the battle against one type of leukemia, a genetic mutation could hold the key to more effective, lower-dose treatments. The new, early findings b…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center With $3 million in support from a longtime donor to the University of Vermont Cancer Center, Director Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, was invested as the …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center  STAT News has named Arnethea Sutton, PhD, as one of this year’s 27 STAT Wunderkinds – the news organization’s award recognizing rising stars in biomedical rese…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has announced study results of a Phase II clinical trial showing monotherapy with sotorasib resulted in anti-tumor activity and a favorabl…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Stephanie Greco, MD, FACS, an assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, became a Fellow of the American College of…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Although Black lung cancer patients are more likely to die from their disease than white patients, they have better outcomes than whites w…