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Cedars-Sinai Cancer Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have identified an investigational therapeutic approach that could be effective against treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Results …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Myocarditis can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare, the mortality rate is nearly 50 percent.…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Shellie Ellis, PhD, has been awarded a $1.2 million R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to test an intervention she and her colleagues des…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A team of researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has developed a nanotechnology platform that can change the way the…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone The recent development of drugs that can kill cancer cells with KRAS mutations has been a major breakthrough. But in nearly all patients…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Having completed his undergraduate and medical degrees in his native India before coming to the U.S., Shashank Cingam, MD, completed an int…

UK Markey Cancer Center The Division of Surgical Oncology is pleased to welcome Mautin Barry-Hundeyin, MD, to the UK College of Medicine Department of Surgery. Dr. Barry-Hundeyin joins the NCI…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a small study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immu…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with Gero and Genome Protection Inc., recently published new work that demo…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Andrea Porpiglia, MD, MSc, FACS, was recently inducted as a fellow into the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. Founded in 1879, the aca…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Cancer Institute member Laura Attardi, PhD, received the National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award. Dr. Attardi's research will provide crucia…

December 1 marks the launch of AACI's Catchment Area Research and Data Science (CARDS) listserv. The goal of the new listserv is to build a supportive and collaborative community for those involved i…

The 14th Annual AACI CRI Meeting Abstracts and Posters Book is now available to AACI members. The digital book features 74 abstracts from 28 cancer centers submitted for presentation at the CRI meeti…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved the initiation of the construction of the new UK HealthCare cancer and advanced ambulatory complex. It also approv…

Yolanda Sanchez, PhD, has been named to head the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Sanchez is currently associate director of basic sciences at Dartmouth Cancer Center. She will start in her new r…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Roy Jensen, MD, vice chancellor and director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, has been named to the national board of directors for the American Canc…

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, FACP, has been named president and executive director of Atrium Health's cancer service line—which includes both Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute and Atrium Health Wake Forest…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers from across the University of Kansas Medical Center have contributed significantly to the field of obesity research over the years. Now, the …

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health has completed its first set of surgeries using the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved implantable prosth…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Two years ago, when C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, joined Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to lead the myeloma program, he told Direc…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University Robert W. Sobol, PhD, has been appointed associate director for basic research and co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Legorreta Cancer C…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A University of Arizona project, with funding from the state's New Economy Initiative, creates humanlike cancer models and growth environments to help i…

AACI is pleased to add Ellis Fischel Cancer Center to its membership roster. Directed by Gerhard Hildebrandt, MD, FACS, Ellis Fischel’s strategic imperative is to use research and innovation to creat…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center As cancers grow and potentially spread to new parts of the body, they often shed cells and DNA into the blood stream. DNA can be analyzed for both th…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A family history of cancer and genetic variants that might be inherited appear to be important risk factors for Black men diagnosed with e…

The AACI CRI Steering Committee is currently soliciting abstracts for the 15th Annual AACI CRI Meeting. This year’s meeting theme will focus on taking innovations in cancer clinical research from abs…

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…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A new preclinical study, led by researchers currently at Emory University and UT Southwestern who began the work while they were at Duke University…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Kate Hitchcock, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been appointed v…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center One of every 10 patients with appendiceal cancer carries a germline genetic variant associated with cancer predisposition, according to a new study that is the …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Phase III clinical trial of the DCVax®-L cancer vaccine, conducted at the Wilmot Cancer Institute and other centers internationally, has shown that the v…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumor …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have revealed how the gene HOXA5 may work to suppress formation of b…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center David Y. Lee, MD, PhD, has been named director of radiation oncology at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. He joined UNM in September 201…

WVU Cancer Institute West Virginia University Medicine is proud to announce the appointment of Ali Hajiran, MD, as the new chief of Urologic Oncology. He specializes in treating complex cases …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD, has been named associate director for basic research at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC). Dr. …

Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center With a focus on expediting the development of early-phase clinical trials and enhancing chemoimmunotherapy responses in bladder cancer, ge…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, and Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, have been named to the 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers by Cla…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine In a new study, the majority of individuals treated as children for Hodgkin lymphoma who are now in their 30s, showed signs of being an average of 7.7 year…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute In a new study, scientists from the Center for Tobacco Research at The Ohio State Un…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center While it has long been recognized that drugs that block the cancer-promoting activity of estrogen reduce the risk of developing new breast cance…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and School of Dentistry found that certain drugs can change the fundamental makeup of c…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A new therapy that makes the immune system kill bone marrow cancer cells was successful in as many as 73 percent of patients in two clinical trials, a…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Norman Wolmark, MD, received the 2022 Susan G. Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction at the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Dr. Wolmark, chair…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The UF Health Cancer Center has received a three-year reaccreditation from the Commission on Cancer, or CoC, a quality program of the American College of S…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Charles Gersbach, PhD, associate professor of surgery, orthopedic surgery, and cell biology, and Duke Cancer Institute member, has been elected …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Christopher Flowers, MD, division head ad interim of cancer medicine and chair of Lymphoma and Myeloma at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, was honored with the 2022 ESMO Award for Immuno-Oncology from the European Society for Medical Oncology in recognition of her outsta…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have created a laboratory-grown three-dimensional "organoid" model that is …

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University Sendurai A. Mani, PhD, has been appointed associate director for translational oncology at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and profe…

Top congressional appropriators came to an agreement on a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The budget was passed and signed by President Biden ahead of the December 2…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A large global clinical trial has found that non-Hispanic Black women with Hormone Receptor positive/HER2-negative breast cancer, with 1-3 involved…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have presented findings from three clinical trials that highlight results t…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Over the past 30 years there has been a considerable effort to improve early-phase oncology trials. One such effort is the Experimental …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified specific immune cells that drive…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Cynthia Owusu, MD, is the new associate director for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is the principal investigat…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Swayam Prabha, MBA, PhD, a member of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded a $792,0…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer has recognized Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, with the 2022 Asclepios Award. The foundation recognized Dr. Lovly for her work on underst…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Kevin J. Cullen, MD, the longtime director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Compre…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center was awarded $43 million through the federal spending bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law in December 2…

Gary Schwartz, MD, will become director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center this spring, succeeding Stanton L. Gerson, MD, a past AACI president, who has led the center since 2004. Dr. Schwartz i…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Joining more than 100 previous orators, Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS, president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center, delivered the Rhoads Oration for the Philadel…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that putting a three-day limit on opioid prescriptions to treat surgical pain after hospital…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center UF Health was a study location for a multicenter Phase I-II trial showing that the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib achieved anticancer activity with an…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai Cancer is taking on the country’s leading cause of cancer-related death with a new lung cancer screening program designed to reach more patients, simplify the …

Stanford Cancer Institute Irv Weissman, MD, was presented with the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) highest honor, the 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. He …

University of Illinois Cancer Center VK Gadi, MD, PhD, whose laboratory and clinical research has focused primarily on breast cancer, is the new deputy director of the University of Illinois C…

The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Program established by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation announced that Amgen, a global biotechnology company, has committed to contribute $8 m…

In January the Louisiana State University-Louisiana Children’s Medical Center (LSU-LCMC) Health Cancer Center became the 108th member of AACI. Professor of Surgery and Interdisciplinary Oncology John…

Abstract submissions are now being accepted for the 15th Annual AACI CRI Meeting, June 26-28, 2023, at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL. This year’s meeting theme will focus on taking i…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Jatinder Lamba, PhD, a professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, ha…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Jennifer Wargo, MD, has received a 2023 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Medicine from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Tec…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have identified a relatively natural way to increase the numbers and antitumor activities of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). A ne…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Patients whose brain tumors have a mutated enzyme called IDH1 typically live longer than those without the mutation. But even as these tumors are ini…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new paper, Dario Marchetti, PhD, and his team at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center describe the process they used to identify the ge…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Wm. Kevin Kelly, DO, has been appointed chair of the Department of Medical Oncology for the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson Un…

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Moffitt Cancer Center A January groundbreaking and naming celebration for "Speros FL" officially kicked off construction of the 775-acre Pasco County, FL campus featuring 16 million square fee…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The transition of a low-grade, slow growing brain tumor to a lethal one can be delayed if neurosurgeons remove as much as possible soon aft…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Faye Rogers, PhD, associate professor of therapeutic radiology, has been appointed associate cancer center director for diversity, equity, and inclu…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Andrea Wolf, MD, director of the New York Mesothelioma Program at the Mount Sinai Health System, has received the 2022 Irving J. Selikoff Lifetime Achieveme…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Daniel Ermann, MD, hematology and oncology fellow at Huntsman Cancer Institute, has been selected as a scholar for the 2023 Lymphoma Scientific Re…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A cutting-edge upgrade of an online tool developed by genetic experts and data scien…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Cancer Institute member Jiangbin Ye, PhD, and colleagues found that mitochondrial uncoupling is an effective metabolic and epigenetic therapy for reversing t…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine In a new study, a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals that the commercial tool that has been th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Jeffrey Holzbeierlein, MD, was named physician in chief of The University of Kansas Cancer Center. He will assume the role held by Terry Tsue, MD, who re…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center team, led Evan Graboyes, MD, published results of a pilot trial evaluating a tele-cognitive behavior…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, has been named one of three new members of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Gifts totaling $3 million will create an endowed chair in cancer informatics at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simo…

AACI cancer center directors are invited to submit nominations for the 2023 Champion for Cures Award. The submission deadline is Friday, March 31. The Champion for Cures Award will be presented durin…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a new study from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, researchers described a novel mechanism of tumor formation in …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In a study published in Science, Kevin Lou, an MD-PhD student, Luke Gilbert, PhD, and Kevan Shokat, PhD, revealed the discovery of a cellul…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A $1.1 million gift will support the development of a University of Arizona Cancer Center program that aims to integrate traditional medicine and therap…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC not only directly links circadian clock proteins to liver cancer, but also shows precise…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A comprehensive analysis of more than 100,000 colorectal cancer cases, led by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and 200 scientific collaborators wo…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Two promising metastatic breast cancer drug discoveries have emerged from the McDonnell Lab at Duke into the clinic. One of the drugs, Ela…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study by researchers at OSUCCC – James suggests a way to re-energize critical …

UK Markey Cancer Center A new UK Markey Cancer Center study highlights the need for increased outreach and education to reduce colorectal cancer screening disparities in Black communities. Acc…