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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Li-Wen Huang, MD, received the 2019 Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Endowed Young Investigator Award…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Michael Kuettel, MD, MBA, PhD, FASTRO, professor and Barbara C. & George H. Hyde Chair in Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park, has been appointed to the Ad…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco has opened a pioneering cancer center to provide adult patients with genetic counseling, immunotherapy, molecular profilin…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a novel study of cancer genetics using fallopian tube tissue from 15 women, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Can…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Treatment with the drug olaparib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death from metastatic pancreatic cancer…

Siteman Cancer Center A multicenter team led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has taken a big step toward identifying pancreatic cysts that are likely …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center were awarded $5.4 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to investigate the potential for novel therapi…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has affirmed its support for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, renewing its status as one of 50 Comprehensi…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has revealed plans to invest more than $1 billion to develop and support a new comprehensive cancer campus at FivePoint Gateway in Orange …

GW Cancer Center The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center has established the Dr. Cyrus Katzen Family Director of the GW Cancer Center, thanks to a gift from GW alumnus and former B…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Physician-scientist Donald J. Johann Jr., MD, has been awarded a $1.47 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration to continue a clinical …

University of Virginia Cancer Center University of Virginia Health System is joining a coalition of health care organizations to improve vaccination rates in western Virginia for human papillo…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have invented a computational technique called CIBERSORTx that can analyze the RNA of individual cells taken from w…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital announce a five-year grant awarded by The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation to establish The DeLuca Cente…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK HealthCare recently opened the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network’s (ORIEN) Total Cancer Care Protocol to pediatric patients, becoming the first cancer p…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center applauds the Texas Legislature for passing Senate Bill 21, which raises the minimum legal sa…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center and Beijing Friendship Hospital in China have initiated a collaborative agreement that will provide both institutions with added …

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A novel imaging technique that uses a synthesized form of scorpion venom to light up brain tumors has shown promise in a clinical trial. The imaging system enables neurosur…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Recently presented clinical trial results showed that a commercial blood test was as effective as tissue biopsies at detecting multiple genetic mutations in lung …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center has appointed Jason Luke, MD, FACP, to direct the newly established Cancer Immunotherapeutics Center. A medical oncologist and clinical in…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center On a night when Chuck Pagano returned to Indianapolis, Colts owner Jim Irsay pledged $1 million to cancer research in his f…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The ability to daily monitor a bone marrow or stem cell transplant patient once they’re home is paying dividends, say members of the University of Mis…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center A new initiative at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center will offer cancer patients the tools they need to quit smoking. Led by Emrullah Yil…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Cancer, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified 34 genes th…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded $2.1 million to Duke Cancer Institute researchers to study plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated imm…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO, Mary Beckerle, PhD, and HCI’s Senior Director of Pre-Clinical Translation, Martin McMahon, PhD, have been appointed …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The members of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have elected Karen E. Knudsen, PhD, executive vice president of Oncology Services an…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Poor air quality days significantly increase the risk of hospitalizations for respiratory issues in young survivors of cancer, according to …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Michael Hall, MD, MS, has been named chair of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center. An associate professor in the department, D…

WVU Cancer Institute The WVU Cancer Institute welcomes Mike Ridinger, RN, MBA, as assistant director of finance and administration and the administrator of Hematology/Oncology. Ridinger has mo…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Checkpoint inhibitor drugs that stimulate the immune system have become a growing success story in the treatment of some c…

Stanford Cancer Institute Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to a study by research…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new method for lifting the genetic "fingerprints" of tiny fragments of…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Since the term "metastasis" was coined nearly 200 years ago, thousands of scientific papers have been published on the subject. A comprehensive literatur…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A new study from the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center provides the first evidence that oxidative stress acts directly on telomeres to speed up cellular aging. The key was …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has named David Jaffray, PhD, as its first chief technology and digital officer. Jaffray wil…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s Clinical Health Psychology fellowship program, which focuses on onco-psychology, has earned national accreditati…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a study to determine how financial assistance for costs associated with clinical trial participation …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Partial breast irradiation produces similar long-term survival rates and risk for re…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute New research from The Wistar Institute sheds light on the function of the ARID1A protein, encoded by a gene that is among the most…

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University An overactive protein complex that helps drive the development of leukemia may explain why many therapies for the cancer …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Elizabeth Bouchard, PhD, has been promoted to associate director for community outreach and engagement at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. In …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Katerina Politi, PhD, and Don Nguyen, PhD, members of the Signal Transduction Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, have received a five-year, nea…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed light on how cancers hijack the body’s natural wound-healing response to grow and sp…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health How can breast cancer cells from a primary tumor reach the bones when a patient is deemed "cancer free" after treatment? What allows cancer cell…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center faculty researcher Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, has been recognized with a Research Into Action Award from the Robert Woo…

Siteman Cancer Center Julie Margenthaler, MD, a Washington University professor of surgery at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named president-elect of The American Society of Breast Surgeons. She wil…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and other institutions report that a new laboratory test that induces cancer c…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Christopher Saigal, MD, professor of urology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Sur…

Siteman Cancer Center Two physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Siteman Cancer Center were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center New findings suggest an unexpected path to killing cancer cells could make immunotherapy more effective. Researchers at the University of Michigan Ro…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Reducing smoking, and its associated health effects, among Medicaid recipients in each state by just 1 percent would result in $2.6 billion…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center molecular medicine scientist Hua-Ying Fan, PhD, studies the cells of people with Cockayne syndrome, who don…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Researchers at The Wistar Institute and the University of South Florida have advanced a novel compound that specifically targets t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Therese Hennig, MPAS, PA-C, advanced practice leader for the division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, has been named dir…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Melanie Bean, PhD, LCP, was awarded over $5 million in grant funding by the National Institutes of Health to study fa…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope Provost and Chief Scientific Officer Steven T. Rosen, MD, has been inducted as a member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Dr. Rose…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A major public health initiative aimed at preventing cervical cancer in at-risk Appa…

UK Markey Cancer Center With $15 million from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and a donation of 900 doses of a 12-week treatment from Gilead Sciences Inc…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $16 million grant to establish a cancer health equity center at the University of Florida and …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Anwaar Saeed, MD, has been accepted into the Academic GI Cancer Consortium, which brings together institutions and investigators to design and rapidly complete…

Siteman Cancer Center Ryan C. Fields, MD, has been named chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Fields, who treats patients at …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Robin Famiglietti, PhD, MBA, FACHE, has been appointed chief administrator of Duke Cancer Institute and associate vice president of Oncolo…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center John Rossi, PhD, was given the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) in March. This award recognizes an ASG…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells can develop r…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Wistar scientists have developed a novel synthetic DNA approach for patient-specific production of cancer-targeting molecules call…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Blood clots are the next leading cause of death in cancer patients after cancer itself. Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, is studying how best to prevent blood clots in cancer…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the state’s new Tobacco 21 legislation into effect on April 5 in a ceremony at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Start…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco is collaborating with the nonprofit Lazarex Cancer Foundation on a three-year study to identify ways to improve cancer cli…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers have observed that people with a history of using oral contraceptives are less likely to develop ovarian cancer. A team from Roswell Park a…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Janice M. Mehnert, MD, director of the Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, is among the investigators…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A multi-institutional group of clinical researchers, led by the Duke Cancer Institute’s Andrew Armstrong, MD, McS, FACP, published a new r…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Christoph Seeger, PhD, is the recipient of the Hepatitis B Foundation’s 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize for excellence in hepatitis B research. Dr. Seeger’s work …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah describes a new therapeutic approach with potential …

Stanford Cancer Institute Immune cells imbued with the power to detect tumors could be a new method of diagnosing cancer, according to a Stanford University School of Medicine study performed …

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A new paper shows for the first time how 5-azacytidine (AZA), a drug commonly prescribed to treat myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, causes ca…

Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MD, deputy dir…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health For more than a decade, Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, has been working to eliminate cancer disparities among people of African ancestry. The first step is und…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Smoking rates are down nationally, but so are discussions among physicians and smokers about lung cancer screening, University of Florida researchers…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that while estrogen doesn’t directly affect triple-negative breast cancer cells, it can affect surroundi…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system to help radiologists improve their ability to diagnose prostate cancer. The system…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has honored Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center director Louis M. Weiner, MD, with a 20…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using human cancer cells, tumor and blood samples from cancer patients, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have uncover…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Kevin Ault, MD, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II. This federal comm…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Cancer Institute is changing its name to the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute (CCRI). The CCRI…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center revealed the investigational drug umbralisib as an effective treatment for patien…

Siteman Cancer Center Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, has been named head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and neurosurgeon-in-chief at Barnes-…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Nita Maihle, PhD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute as associate director for research. She will lead efforts t…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center William Cance, MD, deputy director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center (UA) in Phoenix, has been appointed interim director, effective July 1, 20…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Reuben Kapur, PhD, has received more than $1.8 million from the National C…

University of Virginia Cancer Center When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from a yearlong stay on the International Space Station on March 3, 2016, a young physician-scientist, Francine Ga…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is one of just 15 cancer centers nationwide to take part in a groundbreaking collaborative clinical trial for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A study by University of Colorado Cancer Center and Rain Therapeutics, Inc., shows that the clinical-stage drug, tarloxotinib, is active against NRG1-fusio…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Addiction Research Training Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) was recently awarded $2.1 million from the Natio…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and National Cancer Institute researchers suggests that Oncotype DX-guided treatm…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Seeking to better understand triple-negative breast cancer's (TNBC) ability to disarm proteins that suppress tumors and mutate them into tumor drivers,…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope recently received $7.5 million in grant awards to study a rare type of blood cancer that affects the skin: cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) successfully re-competed for its status as a Lead Academic Participating Site for the National Clinical Trials …

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Ravi Bhatia, MD, has been named interim director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Al…

Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma The Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine has been awarded a $10.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to expand its clini…