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The University of Kansas Cancer Center In a collaboration between The University of Kansas Cancer Center, California State University San Marcos, and Brown University, scientists conducted a s…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD, professor and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been promoted to the role of a…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN, was awarded the 2020 Ada Sue Hinshaw Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. F…

University of Virginia Cancer Center UVA Cancer Center researcher Sanchita Bhatnagar, PhD, and her team have found that the breast cancer oncogene TRIM37 not only causes the cancer to spread b…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Daniel Sullivan, MD, a former member of Duke Cancer Institute, was recently honored by the Prevent Cancer Foundation with the James L. Mulshine …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Brian Rini, MD, is leading a study launched by the National Cancer Institute that will closely monitor cancer patients who acquire COVID-19 with the goal of pro…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center John Turchi, PhD, an Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher, has been awarded a fi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A novel clinical trial platform that aims to accelerate treatment discoveries for people battling pancreatic cancer is now enrolling patients at 15 s…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that patients with a particular type of human leukocyte antigen, a protein scaff…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has detailed striking findings on the effectiveness of a previously untried combination of old and…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center In a recent study, Brent Rose, MD, and colleagues tested the hypothesis that African American men undergoing active surveillance are at a significantly higher…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has appointed Lovoria Williams, PhD, as assistant director for cancer health equity, a newly created position within the Markey leadership struc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Erica Golemis, PhD, deputy chief science officer and co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently appointe…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A new study led by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh shows for the first time how certain drugs used to treat HIV and cancer…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center With the help of a three-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a team of Fred Hutch public health researchers will lead a collaboration to …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Bridget Fahy, MD, has been appointed to the position of Victor and Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor of Complex Surgical Oncology. Dr. Fahy i…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, and Philip Friedlander, MD, PhD, at The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working with co…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and other institutions have applied po…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Through large-scale profiling of protein changes in response to drug treatments in cancer cell lines, researchers at The University of Texas M…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Age may cause identical cancer cells with the same mutations to behave differently. In animal and laboratory models of mel…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Monica Cfarku, RN, MSN, BMTCN, CCM, NE-BC, has been named assistant vice president and chief of Oncology Nursing Services, Duke Cancer Ins…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A new initiative aims to speed the process of bringing lifesaving medical discoveries made in University of Utah laboratories to new drugs a…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Cleveland Clinic data scientist Daniel Rotroff, PhD, and anesthesiologist Joseph Foss, MD, have received a nearly $5 million grant from the National Institute of…

Siteman Cancer Center Barry A. Siegel, MD, a professor of radiology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who sees patients at Siteman Cancer Center, has received …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is one of just 21 hospital systems in the country and the only system in Pennsylvania selected to work with the Am…

Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Raymond Bergan, MD, has accepted the position of deputy director of the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. He began his duties on November 9. Dr. Be…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center has merged two of its existing research programs into the newly established Cancer Biology program. The former Cancer Cell Signa…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc., have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration designe…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University To improve maternal and children’s health care in the District of Columbia and surrounding communities, the A. James &…

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…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new modeling tool may be able to help doctors assess which treatments are best for individual patients with colorectal cancer. The artificial intelligence program a…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, associate director for Community Outreach and Engagement and director of the Office of Cancer Health Equity at Wake Forest Baptist Com…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a new medical records analysis of racial disparities in end-of-life care, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and thr…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Jeanine Guidry, PhD, compared how HPV vaccination was portrayed on Pinterest before and after the …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new study points to a need for oncologists to ask their patients about sexual health after chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatment…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Many of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers are highly effective at blocking T cells from reaching and responding to tumors. But research led…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are taking a closer look at the genomic features of prostate cancer tumors among men of different races in hopes of better understanding…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Colon cancer may be treated or even prevented by altering microorganisms in the intestine and by combating inflammation with a clinical treatment pre…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University The inflammasome—a protein signaling network that is activated to rid the body of virus or bacteria-infected cells—may pla…

Stanford Cancer Institute Dean W. Felsher, MD, PhD, is a 2020 recipient of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award. His lab will target the MYC oncogene pathway to…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Press Ganey has recognized Fox Chase Cancer Center with its 2020 Guardian of Excellence Award for providing outstanding clinical performance for patients in it…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Ambitious efforts at the UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread to the brain have yielded important insights a…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and the most costly to treat. Now, Jefferson researchers have shown that although th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Opioids for pain relief are often a necessity for cancer patients, but opioid use comes with its own set of risks. Two papers published by researchers at…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Peng Mao, PhD, and his team have discovered an intricate series of events that cells use to repair DNA, finding that in transcription-coupl…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has quantified the impact of repealing the 201…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Research Project Cooperative Agreement grant to Yale Cancer Center. The two-year, $1.4 million U01 a…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a drug that activates the body’s natural defenses by behaving like a virus …

Moffitt Cancer Center For patients with non-small cell lung cancer, two major treatment strategies have emerged: tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, choosing …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center In a large randomized clinical trial, researchers evaluated the immunotherapy drug avelumab for patients with advanced urothelial cancer. And the findings of the …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Brad Cairns, PhD, has accepted an appointment as chief academic officer at Huntsman Cancer Institute. In addition, Alana Welm, PhD, has acce…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has received a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to support the Rutgers Youth Enjoy…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO) presented the third annual Mary Pazdur Award for Excellence in Advanced Pr…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have genetically modified h…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A promising new biomarker that appears in patients before stomach cancer develops may help with early detection of the disease and improve patient respo…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Interim Dean Stanton L. Gerson, MD, has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. Dr. Ge…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health were more likely to survive or experience a longer period without t…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida Health researchers Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, MD, PhD, and Michael McIntosh, PhD, and their collaborators have published new rese…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Subhamoy Dasgupta, PhD, has received a five-year, $2.52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support investigations into how communi…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Colleen Tetzlaff, MHS, PA-C, an advanced practice clinician at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named president of the Association of Physician Assistants…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A study from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has the potential to change how patients whose prostate cancer recurs after prostatectomy…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center In his previous role at Moffitt Cancer Center, Said Sebti, PhD, and colleagues discovered FGTI-2734, a drug that overcomes a major hurdle in halting the …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center After serving as interim director since January 1, Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, has been named director of the division of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt Univer…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have secured $4 million in funding fr…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute OSUCCC – James and the Ohio State College of Pharmacy have been awarded a five-year,…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Focus Fund GP, LLC, in partnership with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has launched Cancer Focus Fund, LP, an oncology…

Cancer Center at Illinois Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement betwe…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A new study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has discovered that mutations found in cancers do not accumulate randomly, …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Risk for melanoma can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to A. Hunter Shain, PhD, who led a new study to…

Siteman Cancer Center A broad collaboration of scientists co-led by Robert Schreiber, PhD, has identified five features of neoantigens that optimize the ability to trigger T cells to attack ca…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center With a new $7.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Rogel Cancer Center researchers and their national collaborators will test whether …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, has been named to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized for defining the mechanistic basis of how patients respond to or…

UK Markey Cancer Center Cardiothoracic surgeon Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, has started a two-year term as chair of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. He serves as m…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The national breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen® has announced that Donald McDonnell, PhD, is one of two breast cancer researchers named …

Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, MD, associate chair of surgery for cancer services and a native West Virginian, has been named the permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute after having served in the pos…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been named executive director of the Mays Cancer Center. The appointment broadens Dr. Mesa's scope of responsi…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Deirdre J. Cohen, MD, MS, has joined Mount Sinai Health System as director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program and medical director of the Cancer…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Michaela A. Dinan, PhD, has been appointed co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center beginning January 1…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson David Gius, MD, PhD, a breast cancer and radiation researcher, has joined the Mays Cancer Center. He was recruited from the Robert H. Lu…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Nearly 1 in 8 commercially insured patients nationwide who underwent an elective colonoscopy between 2012 and 2017 performed by an in-network provider rece…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will receive more than $7.3 million from the National Cancer Institute as part of its new…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai has been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to study the diversity and determinants of the immune-inflammatory response t…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Ginny L. Clements has given $8.5 million to the UArizona Cancer Center to strengthen the center's breast cancer patient care and research programs. She …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and OSUCC – James have been…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Walther Cancer Foundation will invest $11 million to advance collaborative cancer research at Indiana University and Pu…

Jan Kitajewski, PhD, has been appointed director of the University of Illinois (UI) Cancer Center effective November 13, 2020. He has served as interim director since December 2019 and joined UI Canc…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A team of researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center received an $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to …

UK Markey Cancer Center B. Mark Evers, MD, FACS, director of UK Markey Cancer Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Evers was elected for his expertise on intestinal horm…

Indiana University School of Medicine has announced the hiring of Kelvin Lee, MD, to lead the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, bolstered by a $15 million fund est…

Moffitt Cancer Center Targeted therapy with BRAF-MEK inhibitors is effective against advanced melanoma that cannot be surgically removed or has spread to other areas of the body. However, many…

Stanford Cancer Institute There are currently two main ways of treating ocular melanoma: radiation therapy or removal of the eye. Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, and Darius Moshfeghi, MD, are invest…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research from a team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center explains how radiation helps boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer in co…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Results from a Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center suggest that a combination of ipilimumab…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine may open the door to an entirely new approach to treating cancer: by disrupting a vital cond…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai Cancer is continuing to expand its clinical and investigative research staff with the addition of several new faculty scientists who bring a breadth of experti…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Ruth O’Regan, MD, chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the next chair of medicine at th…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A nationwide clinical trial funded by the National Cancer Institute and now open at VCU Massey Cancer Center will examine the short- and long-term outcom…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study by researchers at OSUCCC – James shows that RNA nanoparticles have elast…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine James B. Yu, MD, MHS, has been promoted to associate chief Medical officer for radiation oncology for Smilow Cancer Hospital and Smilow Cancer Hospi…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast cancer researcher Stuart S. Martin, PhD, has been installed as the inaugural Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Pro…