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University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center By continuously monitoring the body temperature of mice that had undergone bone-marrow transplants, researchers were able to detect early warning sig…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The Kidney Cancer Association is recognizing the research accomplishments and leadership achievements of W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, with its top honor, the Eugene P.…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Sara Piccirillo, PhD, has received the 2019 Gianni Bonadonna prize for new drug development, which she will use to fund her research on glioblasto…

Moffitt Cancer Center Most patients with advanced melanoma who develop metastases in the leptomeninges only survive for 8-10 weeks after diagnosis. One reason for this poor prognosis is that v…

Siteman Cancer Center Cancer patients who receive proton therapy experience similar cure rates and fewer serious side effects compared with those who undergo traditional X-ray radiation therap…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins researchers report that a type of biodegradable, lab-engineered nanoparticle they fashioned can successfully…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and University of Utah (U of U) Health Hospitals and Clinics have announced that Don Milligan, MBA, will ser…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD, MPH, and David Wheeler, MPH, PhD, received a $2.1 million R01 grant from the National Cancer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, professor and chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected to the American So…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center In 2013, a research team from Roswell Park, led by Elizabeth Repasky, PhD, reported that chronic stress can encourage the development and proliferation…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration wit…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center (YCC) has launched the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity. Building on YCC’s longstanding commitment to high-quali…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to the drug enfortumab vedotin (EV) to treat adult patients with advanc…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Richard L. Eckert, PhD, has been named deputy director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Green…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Gustavo Leone, PhD, director of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, has announced that he has accepted a position as director of the M…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center An $18 million commitment from the Simms/Mann Family Foundation, led by Dr. Victoria Mann Simms and Ronald Simms, will support UCLA’s expansion of inte…

Stanford Cancer Institute In a speech at Stanford University, National Cancer Institute Director Norman Sharpless, MD, reported promising cancer mortality trends and described an encouraging l…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has announced that Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD, is the center’s new president and director. Dr. Lynch, a well-known cancer leader with expertise in solid tumor rese…

Stanford Cancer Institute Neighborhoods with high proportions of gay and bisexual men are twice as likely to have an indoor tanning salon as neighborhoods with fewer sexual minority men, accor…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A preclinical study led by researchers at KU Cancer Center has identified a potential new target in the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, th…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps explain why some people with advanced cancer may not respond to one o…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new study,  Moffitt Cancer Center scientists describe a community-based program called the Rapid Tissue Donation protocol. It enables patients to consent to donating…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new study makes a case for getting a mammogram every year instead of every other year. Women diagnosed with breast cancer after receiving yearly ma…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jeffrey Peterson, PhD, has been awarded a $1.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Defense as part of its mission to address important challenges and…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new approach to programming cancer-fighting immune cells called CAR T cells can prolong their activity and increase their effectiveness against human cancer cells g…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that a protein involved in immune response to microbes also can fu…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers are developing a new imaging technique that can provide accurate, real-time, computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Using deep l…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Consuming a seaweed found near the Florida Keys may offer health benefits in preventing colon cancer and inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The immune system establishes "forward operating bases," or lymph node-like structures, inside the tumors of some patients with kidney and other ur…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute researchers have observed how stem cell mutations quietly arise and spread throughout a widening field of the colon …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center After receiving acupuncture treatment three days a week during the course of radiation treatment, head and neck cancer patients experienced le…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research led by pediatric oncologist Kara Kelly, MD, at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has confirmed what several earlier studies showed: tha…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have discovered how to predict whether triple-negative breast cancer will…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida researchers have found mutation hot spots in a unique class of proteins that could drive cancer progression. "Many of these mut…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by UCLA researchers found that adding ribociclib to standard hormone therapy significantly improves overall survival in postmenopausal wome…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A team comprising members of the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials network funded by the National Cancer Institute, has identified t…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Kidney cancer patients who had already tried two or three different treatments had improved chances of preventing cancer progression with an experiment…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Together with two state legislators, OSUCCC – James has announced new legislation th…

Moffitt Cancer Center Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA, FACP, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the new senior vice president and chief digital innovation officer. With more than 16 years of clinic…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Erica Golemis, PhD, leader of the Molecular Therapeutics Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named a 2019 fellow of the American Association for the Ad…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by a Roswell Park scientist has identified the molecule LRIG1 as an important endogenous tumor suppressor in prostate cancer. The t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Researchers have identified a cell surface receptor that is essential for the function and survival of resistant prostate cancer cells, an…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Stephen D. Nimer, MD, director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently received designation from the National Cancer In…

University of Illinois Cancer Center Jan Kitajewski, PhD, director for basic research at the University of Illinois Cancer Center, is serving as the cancer center's interim director. Dr. Kitaj…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University has received a $70 million gift from Sidney and Caroline Kimmel. The Caroline Kimmel Biomedical Research Building wi…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Prostate Cancer Foundation has awarded the 2019 PCF VAlor Challenge Award to a team of Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health resea…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center In a new kind of real-world study, a "pragmatic" clinical trial, University of Florida researchers found that hepatitis C patients who previously did…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study could explain why drugs will often work for some cancer types, but not others. "We’ve been targeting the cancer-causing gene for therapy, but it tu…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Cellular machines that control chromosome structure, such as the RSC complex, are mutated in about one-fifth of all human cancers. Now, for …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at Rogel Cancer Center have taken a promising new approach to targeting STAT3 — developing a small-molecule compound that harnesses the p…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Celina Kleer, MD, has been honored by the American Association for Cancer Research for her work in generating key insights into the development of aggressiv…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Jennifer Kennedy-Stovall has been named director of patient access at Duke Cancer Institute. She previously served as director of patient …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Brian Rini, MD, a leader in genitourinary oncology, kidney cancer, and clinical drug development, will join Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in January 2020 as t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center An initiative to establish a streamlined process for collection of family health histories could set the stage for a standardized system to make the information…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Peter Ubel, MD, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ubel, a member of the Duke Cancer Institute, is a behaviora…

WVU Cancer Institute Ivan Martinez, PhD, is exploring how HPV produces and modifies tiny molecules of RNA—called "non-coding RNAs"—in infected human cells. Using cell lines from cervical and h…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new clinical trial at OSUCCC - James and three other leading cancer centers aims t…

Siteman Cancer Center Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support an open-source da…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UC San Francisco scientists have found tha…

Stanford Cancer Institute Scientists at Stanford and UC San Francisco have developed an experimental drug that targets a currently untreatable type of lung cancer responsible for generating ro…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Cente…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Four top teams of ovarian cancer researchers are uniting efforts in an unprecedented collaboration aimed at enabling early detection and perhaps preven…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Davide Ruggero, PhD, has accomplished the rare feat of receiving two of the most competitive awards available to cancer scientists. In September, …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Despite the lengthy time and money commitments that are required to conduct clinical trials, a new analysis has found that up to one-fourth of c…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The Society for Melanoma Research recently presented Sheri Holmen, PhD, with the Estela Medrano Memorial Award. Dr. Holmen is a melanoma researcher…

Siteman Cancer Center A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates a way for cancer immunotherapy to spur a more robust immune response. Such k…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study reveals that the internet popularity of health awareness campaigns may not always translate into a greater interest in related health behavio…

UK Markey Cancer Center Cancer-control researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital & Sol…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers at KU Cancer Center have identified an agent that improves risk biomarkers for breast cancer while reducing menopausal side effects in women …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health welcome Carolyn Hayes, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, as the new chief nursing officer. She will oversee …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In what is believed to be the most comprehensive molecular characterization to date of the most common—and often treatment…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The prostate cancer program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health has been awarded an $8.7 million Specialized Program of Res…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A "dream team" of researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have received funding from the National Institutes of Health for an ambitious five-year …

WVU Cancer Institute Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, MD, has been named interim director of the WVU Cancer Institute, effective January 2020. As the director of clinical services for the Mary Babb Rand…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands formalized a memorandum of understanding betwe…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have reported that secondary tumor-reduction, or cytoreduction, surgery fol…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Puerto Rico received a competitive renewal of their Comprehensive Part…

Stanford Cancer Institute Women with early-stage breast cancer that has a specific pattern of gene expression are more likely than others to benefit from treatment with a class of common but p…

Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Stephenson Cancer Center has announced a $20 million gift from the Stephenson Family Foundation and Peggy and Charles Stephenson, the center’s …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park received more than $21.8 million in recent competitive grants and contracts to launch new investigations or continue promising research ef…

The Association of American Cancer Institutes welcomes back Norman E. Sharpless, MD, as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Sharpless served for seven months as acting commissioner o…

Please join us in 2020 for two signature events: AACI's Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) annual meeting, July 7 - 9, in Chicago, and the AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, October 11 - 13, in Kansas City, h…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The Global Cancer Program at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a U54 award for a partnership with the Natio…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Three members of the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute were honored at the medical center's annual Excellence in Research Awards event. Shou-C…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A discovery by researchers at OSUCC – James may help scientists understand why some …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 7 (CDK7) plays a key role in controlling transcription of three genes that help tumor cells proliferate in patients wit…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur "Art" Weiss, MD, PhD, received a 2019 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology/Basic Immunology from…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new study from Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health investigates whether a non-invasive method of ultrasound imaging, combined with…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The three-drug combination of encorafenib, binimetinib, and cetuximab significantly improved overall survival in patients with BRAF-mutated me…

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa Disrupting a metabolic pathway in the liver in a way that creates a more “cancer-like” metabolism actually reduces tumor formation in a m…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center say a new, more accurate, genomic sequencing classifier allows patients to avoid one in five surgeries for thyroid…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center reports it has discovered a metabolic vulnerability in multipl…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Yousuf Zafar, MD, associate professor of medicine and public policy, has been appointed director of healthcare innovation at Duke Cancer I…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, FPCN, MA, director and professor of the Division of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope, was elected to become a member o…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Scientists at The Wistar Institute described a novel mechanism through which astrocytes, the most abundant supporting cells in the…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Measuring glycogen levels in cell lines representing triple-negative breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer, hormone receptor positive breast canc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Richard J. Bleicher, MD, FACS, has been awarded the 2020 Jamie Brooke Lieberman Remembrance Award from Susan G. Komen® Philadelphia for his work in the breast c…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center In an episode of The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s weekly Facebook Live series, Bench to Bedside, Roy Jensen, MD, director of KU Cancer Center and…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new organelle inside our cells that helps to prevent cancer by ensuri…