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Stony Brook Cancer Center The Stony Brook University Cancer Center has received funding from the New York State budget to help it attain National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Cente…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A recent study by Cleveland Clinic researchers suggests that interactions between the breast microbiome and local immune responses may influence breast cancer de…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A research team co-led by Andrew Godwin, PhD, deputy director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, and Yong Zeng, PhD, has been awarded a $3.1 mill…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Jessica Jin, RN, BSN, BMTCN, a clinical nurse III, is the 2021 Blood and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse of the Year. The annual award by the …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine The University of Rochester has been selected by the American Society of Clinical Oncology as one of five host schools to participate in the inaugural Onco…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at UVA Cancer Center have unveiled new insights into how androgens act on our cells – and the discovery could boost efforts to develop better t…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool th…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center $4 million in cont…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Leland W. Chung, PhD, who served as director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer for 12 years, died May 10 of kidney cancer. He was 80. …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The New Jersey State Cancer Registry, under the direction of the State Department of Health in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, h…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Ken Batai, PhD, a health disparities researcher at the UArizona Cancer Center, has documented an increased risk of mortality among Arizona’s Hispanic Am…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine has been awarded more than $17.5 million in grants by the Cancer Prevention & Research Ins…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, and Peter Kuhn, PhD, director of the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer at the USC Michelson Center for Conve…

Cancer Center at Illinois In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu, PhD, received a $250,000 CCIL Seed Grant to support his research on the characteriza…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences conducted more than 100,000 digital health visits following the COVID-19 outbreak, seeing its high…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New data published by researchers at OSUCCC – James suggests that an oral drug curre…

Stanford Cancer Institute To advance studies of cell migration, Stanford researchers have worked to develop and test new types of material that closely imitate the real tissue that surrounds c…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Suyun Huang, PhD, recently discovered how cholesterol becomes dysregulated in brain cancer cells and showed that the …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons, launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the Univ…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia suffer remarkably fewer relapses and are far more likely to survi…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer starts with mutations in a cell’s DNA, but new UC San Francisco research shows that the endurance of a tumor relies on its ability t…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new article, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers demonstrate how an important defect in STING gene expression in melanoma cells contributes to their evasion from immun…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center People with ovarian cancer frequently receive aggressive end-of-life care despite industry guidelines that emphasize quality of life for those with a…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey deputy director, Eileen White, PhD, has been elected to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The American Association for Cancer Research has named Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, MD, PhD, as co-winner of the Molecular Cancer Research Michael B. Ka…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study at OSUCCC - James will evaluate how COVID-19 impacts the immune system of ca…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center used machine learning techniques to detect mutational signatures in …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Cardiovascular disease-related mortality among prostate cancer patients is significantly higher among Black patients compared with white patient…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Funded by a two-year, $2.08 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a new collaboration between two western New York cancer research leaders …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Wilmot Cancer Institute team is launching a two-year research project to develop different types of text messages for smoking cessation, and then study t…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at City of Hope have developed a novel, noninvasive liquid biopsy test for detecting lymph node metastasis in individuals with high-risk T1 …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Analyzing tumors from more than 2,600 patients and 38 cancer types, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Neeraj Agarwal, MD, a physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, has been appointed senior director of clinical research innovation, …

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, FASCO, has been appointed as chief of the division of hematology and oncology in the UF College of Medicine. Dr. Ma…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute A $2.7 million U.S. Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Academy Leadership Award has been awarded to Nita Maihle, PhD. She shares the award with Doug…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Early results from a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy trial led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center foun…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using a field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored, and…

University of Virginia Cancer Center New research from the UVA Cancer Center’s Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD, could rescue once-promising immunotherapies for treating solid cancer tumors, such as…

University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD, has been selected to lead the Cancer Therapy Discovery and Development program at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Can…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute physician assistant Scott Balderson, PA-C, has begun his term as president of the national Association of Physician Assist…

Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, has been appointed director of The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine. He joi…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of c…

Siteman Cancer Center Justin M. Sacks, MD, has been named director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Sacks wil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Agnes Witkiewicz, MD, as director of cancer genetics and genomics. She will also hold the John &…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center congratulates the Cleveland Clinic's Nima Sharifi, MD, on his selection as the 2021 recipient of the American Association for Ca…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A study by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine suggests the rate of cancer recurrence or survival may be no…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Two studies led by Baylor College of Medicine shed new light on the unanswered question of why estrogen receptor-positive…

Moffitt Cancer Center Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the new vice president of digital. This newly created position will be instrumental in Moffitt’s …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Xiongbin Lu, PhD, has been named co-program leader of the Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics (EDT) research progra…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun utilizing a new program called MyCareCompass that is designed to support patients with necessary information about thei…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD, will join the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh as chief of the Division of Hemato…

Cancer Center at Illinois Several Cancer Center at Illinois members are joining forces with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Georgetown University on an expansive project targeting improved…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, New York University, and University Hospitals have been awarded a five-year, $3 million National Cancer Insti…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The immunotherapy agent pembrolizumab can provide clinical benefit to some patients with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors were found to have a h…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new paper, researchers at UC San Francisco and the Whitehead Institute describe a CRISPR-based tool called "CRISPRoff," which allows s…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study from UK Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that Artemisia annua, a plant that has been traditionally used for its anti-malaria components, shows promise…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH, has been named associate director for Population Sciences Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He replaces William Blot, PhD, w…

Siteman Cancer Center Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, has been awarded the George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians in recognition of his contributions to the field of gut microbiome…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new University of Florida study finds that male patients who have a single general physician were more likely to receive a prostate cancer screenin…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have received a grant award to lead a collaborative team of New York institutions in an initiative that addresses disparities …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center A $10 million grant from the AbbVie Foundation will support scientific and educational activities at the University of Chicago Me…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Sameer Patel, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center and…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Arizona residents, including underserved and underrepresented populations, will have better access to cutting-edge cancer therapies as the University of…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new study has found a substantial rise nationwide in new diagnoses at age 65 for lung, breast, colon, and prostate cancer, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A study led by The University of Kansas Cancer Center, with AlloVir, Certara, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, compares the economic burden, h…

Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Mark Juckett, MD, was appointed medical director of the Masonic Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office for the Cellular, Gene and Immunotherapy Ini…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, the founding director of the Center for RNA Biology at the University of Rochester, has been honored with the 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. …

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD, will join USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center as associate director for cancer equity, a newly created position. Her appo…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The National Academy of Sciences has elected Mary Beckerle, PhD, Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO and distinguished professor of biology and oncologi…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health A nursing team at Fox Chase Cancer Center has been honored as a recipient of the 2021 I AM Patient Safety award from the Patient Safety Authority. The third fl…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) recently announced that a multi-institutional team led by Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center researcher Veda N. Gi…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Chronic side effects among melanoma survivors after treatment with anti-PD-1 immunotherapies are more common than previously recognized, according to a new stud…

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University The Lurie Cancer Center announces several new leadership appointments, effective April 1, 2021: Marcelo Bonini, PhD, asso…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Ichiko Kinjyo, MD, PhD, was recently named a 2021 recipient of the Liz Tilberis Early Career Award. She was recognized for her work with Sarah Ad…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK HealthCare, home to the UK Markey Cancer Center, has officially been recognized as a System of Excellence for Hidden Scar breast cancer surgery, the highest level of Hidde…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A long noncoding RNA whose function was previously unknown turns out to play a vital role in mobilizing the immune response following a bone marrow t…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, in collaboration with Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Last spring, as COVID-19 began to tear through American cities and was disproportionately affecting communities of color, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of Roswell Park researchers has identified a new biomarker that could predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors shortly after patients wi…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine In January, breast oncologist Ruth O’Regan, MD, officially joined the University of Rochester Medical Center from the University of Wisconsin. Now she will…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Heather Hampel, MS, LGC, has been elected secretary/treasurer-elect for the National Socie…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A collaborative study by Stony Brook University scientists takes an initial step toward better understanding how KRAS drives immune evasion and demonstrates a lowerin…

Siteman Cancer Center Whole genome sequencing is a potentially viable approach for determining the best treatment regimen for individual patients with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Gaining a better understanding of physical frailty could eventually help people age more healthfully, suggests a Johns Hop…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A high rate of genetic mutations within a tumor, known as high tumor mutation burden, was only useful for predicting clinical responses to imm…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists have identified a new protein that provides insights into a fundamental biological process and may also lead to …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute demonstrate that changing the gut microbiome can transform patients with advanced melanom…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named Sarah Hawley, PhD, MPH, associate director for training, education and career development. S…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A five-year, $1.47 million National Cancer Institute grant has been awarded to researcher Justin Leung, PhD, at the University of Arkansas for Med…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Stephanie Greco, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named a new councilor for the Associat…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the National Cancer Act, the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention honors Christi…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center John D. Carpten, PhD, founding chair for the Department of Translational Genomics in the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named to the 2021 class of fe…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, MS, has been named Duke Cancer Institute’s new associate director of community outreach and engagement. Before joini…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A study by Vanderbilt researchers that analyzed both smoking history and genetic risk variants for lung cancer supports modifying current guidelines to include …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine An essential mineral used to boost the immune system and block sunburns, zinc—in a different form—can also stabilize a protein that helps to prevent most c…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Historically, researchers have mostly generated transcriptomic data from cancer tissues, seeking clues about altered cell…

Stanford Cancer Institute Kavitha Ramchandran, MD, and her team have drawn on their knowledge of both online and in-person environments to develop a virtual palliative medicine clerkship to pr…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A new technique for sampling and testing cells from Barrett's esophagus patients could result in earlier and easier identification of patients whose disease ha…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers found that nearly one-third of Black patients in their study would not have qualified for liver cancer screening using common …