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VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Massey Cancer Center researcher Senthil Radhakrishnan, PhD, a member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program, was awarded a $1.6 million grant …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Massey Cancer Center is asking local citizens to partner in cancer research designed to identify and address health needs in their own communities. The p…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Preliminary research suggests that two commonly prescribed medications, cholesterol-lowering statins and the diabetes therapy metformin, may hav…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Women with early stage breast cancer who test positive for an inherited genetic variant aren’t always receiving cancer treatment that follows current…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Survival may more than double for adults with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, if neurosurgeons remove the sur…

Stanford Cancer Institute For years, Jeffrey Glenn, MD, PhD, and his lab have worked to develop new ways of battling viruses like the ones that cause hepatitis D and the common cold. The lesso…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Monica Webb Hooper, PhD, will become deputy director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), one of the 27 institutes of t…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Paula Cupertino, PhD, joins the University of Rochester Medical Center as Professor of Public Health Sciences and Oncology and as Wilmot Cancer Institute’s…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Keith Sullivan, MD, has been named the 2020 recipient of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Lifetime Achievement Award…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have created the world’s first laboratory model of precancerous changes in the lining of the stomach, helpin…

Moffitt Cancer Center Personalized cancer treatments have greatly improved the lives of patients; however, many patients eventually develop resistance to these targeted drugs. Instead of simpl…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In experiments with human cells and mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report evidence that combi…

Stanford Cancer Institute Biomedical data scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that the number of genes a cell uses to make RNA is a reliable indicator of how de…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center's Nurse Residency Program has achieved Practice Transition Accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). They were…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Jennifer Carlson, associate vice president for external relations and advocacy at OSUCCC – …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Loss of an important tumor-suppressing gene allows head and neck cancer to spin off signals to nearby nerves, changing their function and recr…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Medical oncologist Edwin P. Alyea, III, MD, has been named chief medical officer for Duke Cancer Institute. He will also serve as professo…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center More than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health will allow Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Cent…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A new five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot program will be used to study the holes that immunotherapy leaves in pati…

Siteman Cancer Center A new study that reveals the dozens of molecular changes that bring about endometrial cancer offers insight into how physicians might be able to better identify which pat…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Pamela L. Kunz, MD, has been appointed leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven and Yale Cancer Ce…

Siteman Cancer Center A new $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute is supporting a phase 2 clinical trial to investigate an osteoporosis drug for its potential to lower breast den…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered a novel pathway that enables detection of DNA in the cytoplasm and triggers inflamma…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center According to results from a Phase I/IIa trial at MD Anderson Cancer Center, treatment with cord blood-derived chimeric antigen receptor natura…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The Center for Indigenous Cancer Research at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, the first initiative of its kind in the Northeast, is dedicated …

University of Virginia Cancer Center A surprising discovery about a rare form of childhood brain cancer suggests a new treatment approach for that cancer and, potentially, many others. Researc…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has developed a medicated patch that can deliver immune checkp…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Liver metastasis is a leading cause of death in patients with pancreatic or colon cancer. A Cedars-Sinai scientific team has been awarded a $9.1 million grant by the Nation…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has chosen the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation (FCF) to join a select group of organizations fighting …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all stages of disease, with the disparity persisting even when clinical cha…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Children and young adults with pediatric cancer are less likely to be alive five and 10 years following diagnosis if their health insurance…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Mastectomy has historically been the standard treatment for breast cancer patients experiencing recurrence after an initial lumpectomy and whole-breast r…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A bacterium typically linked to periodontal disease, Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nuc), could play an important role in the rising incidence of c…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Eric Prossnitz, PhD, hopes to help many of the 12 percent of American women who are projected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in their l…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Juul delivers substantially more nicotine to the blood per puff than cigarettes or previous-generation e-cigarettes and impairs blood vesse…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health In order to understand whether the inactivation of the p53 pathway might contribute to kidney cancer development, Haifang Yang, PhD, a researche…

Moffitt Cancer Center Krystyna Kowalczyk has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the chief executive officer of the institution’s new contract research organization with a focus on immunotherapy. …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Steven Bender, MBA, FHFMA, formerly senior director of finance for Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine in Boca Raton, has been…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center have received a three-year, $900,000 grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance to better unde…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Supercharged immune cells called CAR T cells have the potential to eradicate even the nastiest blood cancers. But CAR T-cell therapy is still new, with many unkno…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The likelihood of a patient responding to immune checkpoint blockade may depend on B cells in the tumor, located within specialized immune-cel…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named two new associate directors. Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, will be the associate director for quan…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the appointmen…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health welcomes Usama Gergis, MD, MBA, as director of the Bone Marrow Transplant and Immune Cellula…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center welcomes Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH, as its new associate director for cancer population sciences, following an extensive s…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has announced the results of its Pilot Project Competition for Junior Investigators, which was held last fall. The competition is…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University For adult patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas, surgically removing the entire tumor may add months or even years of…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study led by researchers at OSUCCC – James reveals how a clotting protein and bloo…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Many viruses are master manipulators, hijacking cellular functions to propagate, spread and avoid elimination by their host's immune system. Now, Uni…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center The benefits of a daily aspirin may extend to colorectal cancer treatment, say City of Hope researchers who have found aspirin appears to reduce tumor …

Siteman Cancer Center Gynecologic oncologist Dineo Khabele, MD, noted for her expertise in ovarian cancer research and treatment, has been named head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gyne…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated a potential new approach to treating two of the most common subtypes…

GW Cancer Center The Cutaneous Oncology Program at GW Cancer Center was selected as the first global site for a clinical trial for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Th…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has appointed Roxanne Taylor as chief marketing and communications officer, effective February 3. Taylor wil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center National guidelines recommend that men with prostate cancer eat a vegetable-rich diet, suggesting it might decrease cancer progression and death. But i…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Mice given a new drug targeting a key gene involved in lipid and glucose metabolism could tolerate a high-fat diet regimen (composed of 60 perce…

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…