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UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Researchers at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health have reported that genetic testing is cost-effective and beneficial for newly diagnosed patients wi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, has been appointed as associate director for population sciences at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, starting…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah 5 For the Fight, a global movement inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer, has announced the inaugural recipients of the 5 For …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Of any racial group, African-American men have the lowest five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer. A major contributing factor is low …

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Patients treated for bladder cancer with a surgery known as radical cystectomy have worse outcomes if they are smokers, according to a systematic review …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s status as a community site of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) has be…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In laboratory studies, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University researchers observed a key step in …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD, MEd, has been named associate dean for population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She also joins The Universit…

Siteman Cancer Center Jiayi Huang, MD, has been named chief of the central nervous system/Gamma Knife service at Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center. He had been…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, was recently admitted to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. He is chief o…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Analyzing data for about 16,500 advanced colorectal cancer patients, City of Hope researchers found that Black people are more likely than other ethnic…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC) has announced two leadership roles focused on quality and safety in cancer care. Mark…

Stanford Cancer Institute Michael Lim, MD, has been appointed chair of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery. He joined Stanford from the Johns Hopkins Univer…

Siteman Cancer Center Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, a Washington University professor of radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected vice president of the Radiation Research Society. …

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center is launching a nationwide study to help educate oncologists and address health care disparities among LGBTQ+ patients. The study’s findings will inf…

UK Markey Cancer Center The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1,163,869 grant to the University of Kentucky to develop state-of-the-art metabolomics data analysis tools th…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant to fund 3D gene imaging research at Yale Cancer Center. Th…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Studies will allow Justin Leung, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medi…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center have received a $2.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to look at how HPV behaves in patients…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Overall health care costs decreased for patients at clinics participating in Arkansas Blue Cross and Shield value-based primary care programs, acc…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Efstathios "Stathis” Karathanasis, PhD and William Schiemann, PhD are leading a team of researchers from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke Universi…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by researchers at UK Markey Cancer Center highlighted differences in patient diagnosis and treatment in those with non-small cell lung cancer across the sta…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Whether a liver cancer cell is primed to grow or move affects its ability to resist cancer drugs, according to new work from researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Having dedicated his career to developing better treatments for cancer, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP, has be…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With the aid of a $3.1 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey leaders Eileen White, PhD, Edmund L…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Women are underrepresented in the field of academic surgery, but women surgeons are earning a disproportionate share of research grants from the National I…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Overlap syndromes are distinct blood cancers that have features of both myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). The most common …

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute has appointed Ami Patel, PhD, as a Caspar Wistar Fellow in the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center. Her research…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A $3.7 million grant, part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will support a clinical trial designed to test a personalized family genetic…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Innova Therapeutics Inc., rare pediatric disease designation for IVT-8086 f…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco scientists have launched a precision medicine initiative to offer free voluntary whole genome sequencing to all UCSF Healt…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Lois B. Travis, MD, ScD, at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a fi…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and The Ohio State Univ…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A Case Comprehensive Cancer Center-led team has secured $10.4 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to explo…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA researchers have received a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find new ways to overcome melanoma resistance to some of t…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has licensed intellectual property relating to its pioneering chlorotoxin chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy to Chimeric Therapeutic…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Buying prescription drugs from other countries is one way some Americans have coped with rising drug prices. A new University of Florida study finds …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai has been awarded $13 million as part of the renewal of its National Cancer Institute cancer center designati…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center As a member of the steering committee that contributed to the American Association of Cancer Research’s inaugural "Cancer Disparities Progress Report," V…

Prevent Cancer Foundation To help encourage routine cancer screenings, especially as patients have postponed or canceled them during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prevent Cancer Foundation has la…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a Phase I clinical trial for patients with advanced solid cancers marked by KRAS G12C mutations, the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib (AMG 510…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer geneticist Stephen Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, has joined City of Hope as the director of its newly founded Center for Precision Medicine. He will lea…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center For 25 years, the AIDS Malignancy Consortium has led national and international efforts to prevent and treat of HIV-related cancers. Now, Montef…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine After 15 years in the role, C. Kent Osborne, MD, has stepped down as director of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Ce…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami A landmark gift of $126 million to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of M…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Understanding how cells respond to stress may provide new building blocks for designing future cancer and aging treatments, and University of Arizona He…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center What is the connection between COVID-19 and cancer? Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, has focused his entire career on cancer, identifying a protein that pla…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Medical Center has announced a trial exploring a drug intended to fight the cytokine storm common in COVID-19. The trial involve…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been named the coordinating center for vaccine clinical trials of the COVID-19 Prevention Network, funded by the Nation…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has formed a partnership with plastic injection molding company The Rodon Group to develop nasal and oral collection swabs to tes…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nancy Davis, MD, has been named senior medical director for VICC Cancer Care Network and Strategy, a new leadership position at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center earned the Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for its outstanding effort to improve…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park's Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, has been named to the COVID-19 Prevention Network Native Expert Panel, formed by the National Institute of Alle…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the combination of dabrafenib, a BRAF inhibitor, …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Jefferson researchers developing a cancer vaccine to prevent recurrences of gastric, pancreatic, esophageal and colon cancers have added a compo…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have described a novel acidic niche within lymph nodes that plays an integral role in regulating T cell activation. Their findings demon…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Tracy Onega, PhD, has been appointed senior director of population sciences at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and professor of population s…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Mammograms help to catch breast cancer in its early stages, but Dario Marchetti, PhD, thinks they can’t find it soon enough. He and his tea…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new draft recommendation by a national panel of health care experts would nearly double the number of Americans eligible for lung cancer screenings — and should res…

Siteman Cancer Center The effects of a standard immunotherapy drug can be enhanced by blocking the protein TREM2, resulting in complete elimination of tumors, according to a study in mice by W…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Patients who develop cytomegalovirus infections after allogeneic stem cell transplantation may be able to develop an immunity against the virus, streng…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute According to a study led by Dario C. Altieri, MD, president and CEO of The Wistar Institute, breast cancer cells starved for oxyge…

Stanford Cancer Institute Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD, has been appointed division chief of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine in the Division of Pediatric…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Mutations in the p53 gene are found in more than half of all cancers, yet it has proven to be very difficult to target the gene with therapeutic drugs. V…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Robotic surgery for patients with early stage, oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer is associated with improved health outcomes, including better long-term survival, accordin…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: to become a member of the Pediatric Brain …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have developed new models to study molecular characteristics of tumors of …

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A recent article highlights disparities in immune system functions between male and female glioblastoma patients that may underlie some of the observed sex dif…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has announced that Krystle Kuhs, PhD, MPH, will serve as co-leader of its Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. She will co-lead the p…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Jae Jung, PhD, has been appointed chair of Lerner Research Institute's Department of Cancer Biology where he will lead the department’s work in understanding t…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey A Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey study shows environmental surface testing at the center’s radiation oncology department, during the height of th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Rosemary, a fragrant herb, may contain properties that prevent breast cancer from progressing. Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, led…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope physicians, working with scientists at Translational Genomics Research Institute, have found that greater gut microbial diversity in patie…

GW Cancer Center Genetic modifier HDAC6 was found to control tumor growth and halt metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer in vivo, according to a new study by investigators at GW Cancer C…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Biochemist Charles Brenner, PhD, has joined City of Hope to lead the nation’s first research department focused on the intersection between cancer and …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a $2.97 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a nanote…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, was elected to the National Academy of Science in recognition of her transformational contributions to the fields of myeloid cell bio…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Two types of detectable antibody responses in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) tell very different stories and may indicate ways to enhance public health…

GW Cancer Center Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH, will serve as the director of the Cancer Preventorium at GW Cancer Center and as professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Scienc…

Siteman Cancer Center Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Hong Chen, PhD, are developing a new way to diagnose brain tumors without any incisions. The method uses ultraso…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Laura Goff, MD, MSCI, has been named the executive medical director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Cancer Patient Care Center. She will oversee the canc…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Researchers at Ohio State will study the health effects of e-cigarettes and nicotine…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Many modern cancer drugs target a specific genetic mutation that is driving a particular cancer’s runaway growth and division, but this strategy hasn…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center The laboratory of Paula D. Bos, PhD, has joined forces with 18 other international laboratories to develop the first collaborative platform to streamline…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Bert W. O’Malley, Jr., MD, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive officer of the Universi…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Keck Medicine of USC has named oncologist and cancer researcher Steven Grossman, MD, PhD, as USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center’s cancer physician-in…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Patients are now able to donate no-longer-needed oral cancer therapy drugs for the b…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A $10.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, awarded to Alan Tackett, PhD, will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Scie…

Moffitt Cancer Center Tumor immunologist Patrick Hwu, MD, has been appointed the new president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center. He joins Moffitt from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cance…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky was recently awarded a Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant to study translational chemical biology from the National Institutes o…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, received the 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in an…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been elected an officer on the national board of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Dr. Mesa is director of the Ma…

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University At Karmanos Cancer Institute, clinical and scientific researchers are examining factors that have led to the African-American population shoul…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers were part of a national team that published a paper identifying best practices for protecting vulnerable cancer patie…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Stem cell transplant patients are highly immune-compromised, so they are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19. That’s why, in early March…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Research from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health found significant decreases nationwide in the number of patients being seen fo…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists have identified an oncogene responsible for glioblastoma. Researchers say the oncogene is essential to the survival of the cancer cells — withou…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The addition of 12 oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the Univer…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Newly released data on treatment outcomes of people with cancer diagnosed with COVID-19 reveal a racial disparity in access to Remdesivir, an antiviral drug tha…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A University of Michigan-led study is shedding new light on the way pancreatic cancer cells turn nearby connective tissue cells into co-conspirators …