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Moffitt Cancer Center Manish Kohli, MD, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the vice chair of the Department of Genitourinary Oncology. He has an extensive research background, focusing on bri…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham John F. Kearney, PhD, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Kear…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey When it comes to stopping a common form of lung cancer, an energy crisis is a good thing. Research from investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Newly published research from Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health investigators provides a snapshot of the spectrum of genetic chang…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Mary Ann Osley, PhD, has been appointed to a four-year term on the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors for Basic Sciences, which advises on scient…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Jing Chen, PhD, professor and director of the Division of Basic & Translational Science in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology in the Em…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A two-year study by a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and other cancer specialists found that the amount of opioid medications prescribed after surg…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A group of colorectal cancer researchers are using the word “milestone” to describe their new genomic research. The product of more than five years’ work by scien…

UK Markey Cancer Center Thoracic surgeon and educator Shari Meyerson, MD, MEd, has joined UK HealthCare as the new chief of thoracic surgery. Meyerson will direct the section of thoracic surge…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Medical oncologist Carey Anders, MD, has been appointed medical director for the DCI Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis and has joined …

WVU Cancer Institute Lori Hazlehurst, PhD, has been named as the associate director for basic research at the WVU Cancer Institute. In this role, she will work closely with the leadership team…

Moffitt Cancer Center J. Ross Mitchell, PhD, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the artificial intelligence officer. The new role will lead the development of digital tools that utilize compu…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Handorf, PhD, has developed a new method that makes analysis of data collected online more reliable by eliminating repeat responders. Her metho…

GW Cancer Center The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center has announced that Vishal A. Patel, MD, FAAD, FADMC, has joined the cancer center. He will serve as the director of the  re…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute John Ruckdeschel, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute director, has been named to the National Lung Cancer Roundtable. Established …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Dineo Khabele, MD, director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s gynecologic oncology division, has been elected a new member to the American Society for…

O’Neal Industries, Inc., a family-owned global business based in Birmingham, and its shareholders have given the largest single gift in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s history—a $30 million…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Many people who are diagnosed with cancer will undergo some type of surgery to treat their disease. But despite improvements in surgical techniques ove…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Complication rates following invasive diagnostic procedures for lung abnormalities were twice as high in the community setting compared to tho…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai have found that a compound extr…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center A $1.2 million Department of Defense grant has been awarded to Theresa Guise, MD, whose research explores a cascade of even…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Eleven patients had already received numerous treatments for their cancers, some as many as 20 different courses of therapy. Yet their myelomas, almost all classi…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Cancer drugs are able to halt life-threatening bacterial lung infections in mouse models by promoting lung repair, researchers at Duke Hea…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Yann Gibert, PhD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute as an associate professor in the CI Cancer Molecular Biolog…

GW Cancer Center A GW Cancer Center team has engineered a nanoimmunotherapy combining the advantages of nanotechnology and immunotherapy to treat cancer. The goal of this combination is to inc…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Igor Puzanov, MD, MSci, FACP, was honored for his “outstanding and lifelong contributions to melanoma research” during the just-concluded Melanoma and Immunot…

Stanford Cancer Institute Immune cells engineered to attack childhood cancers were able to eradicate different types of pediatric tumors in mice, according to a new study from the Stanford Uni…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Jeongwu Lee, PhD, was awarded a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study an FDA-appr…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Steven Soper, PhD, was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. The AIMBE College of Fellows represe…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center For nearly a decade, VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Devanand Sarkar, PhD, has uncovered new insights into the development and progression of liver c…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Researchers at the OSUCCC - James, led by Purnima Kumar, DDS, PhD, have landed a fiv…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Linda Liau, MD, PhD, MBA, has been awarded the Abhijit Guha Award for her pioneering work on treating brain tumors. Established in memory of the late Dr. Abhi…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah An international team of researchers led by Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has developed, calibrated, and validated a n…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows improved overall survival at five years for pediatric patients with early-stage Hodgkin lympho…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a discovery about human papillomavirus (HPV) that could lead to new treatments for c…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Louis M. Weiner, MD, director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, to its 2018 class o…

Stanford Cancer Institute New accelerator-based technology being developed by the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University aims to reduce the side ef…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center In pre-clinical studies, VCU Massey Cancer Center scientists, led by Hu Yang, PhD, have developed a novel drug delivery system using nanoparticles that s…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Otis W. Brawley, MD, former chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society, has been named a Bloomb…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco Professor Thea Tlsty, PhD, is a winner of the “Grand Challenge” competition sponsored by Cancer Research UK, an ambitious …

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center AACI Immediate Past President Stanton L. Gerson, MD, director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named to the Biden Cancer Initiative Data Sharing Working Gr…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center John Mendelsohn, MD, president emeritus of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and an internationally acclaimed scientist whose …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Pelotonia riders and volunteers raised a record-breaking $27.4 million through the 2…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health While renal cell cancer treatments have improved as researchers gained a deeper understanding of the disease’s genetics and genomics, there is an opportu…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The most comprehensive genome-wide association study, or GWAS, of colorectal cancer risk to date, has discovered 40 new genetic variants and validated 55 previous…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named Andrzej Dlugosz, MD, associate director for basic science research. Dr. Dlugosz currently co…

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center EXPLORER, the world’s first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brain…

Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Kathleen Moore, MD, a physician-scientist at Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine, co-directed an international clinical trial that yielded …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center By combining the experimental anti-cancer antibody known as 5F9 (Hu5F9-G4) with the established anti-cancer antibody rituximab, r…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows the promise of an innovative new strategy against HER2-driven lung cancers (with EGFR involvement, which…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco scientists have figured out why some lung cancers become drug-resistant after initially responding to targeted therapies. …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Martin McMahon, PhD, has received a grant from the Pancreatic Cancer Collective, the strategic partnership of the Lustgarten Foundation and …

UK Markey Cancer Center A new University of Kentucky study shows that annual ultrasound screening of at-risk, asymptomatic women increases the survival rates of women with type I and type II e…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study describes a genetic change common to 80 percent of human melanomas, the most deadly form of skin cancer, and a…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco researchers have devised a CRISPR-based system called SLICE, which will allow scientists to rapidly assess the function of…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A commonly used targeted therapy for metastatic melanomas works by attacking melanomas with mutations in the BRAF gene that make them susceptibl…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A new study has identified a novel molecular driver of lethal prostate cancer, along with a molecule that could be used to attack it. The findings were made in laboratory m…

UK Markey Cancer Center University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researcher Daret St. Clair, PhD, has been named the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient from the Society for Redox Biology an…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Grace Lu-Yao, PhD, associate director of population science at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health, has been honored with the Internatio…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Kelly Lisenbee, DNP, ANP-C, AOCN, adult nurse practitioner, Department of Urologic Surgery, was recently elected to the board of directors for th…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center A leading pediatrician will be the inaugural Chuck and Tina Pagano Scholar at Indiana University School of Medicine. Rachel Katzen…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center For the first time, gut bacteria transplanted from healthy donors was used to successfully treat patients suffering from colitis caused by imm…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A comprehensive analysis examining the relationship between vaping and smoking among youth and young adults finds that cigarette smoking dramati…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Epigenetics researcher Johnathan Whetstine, PhD, joined Fox Chase as program leader of the Cancer Epigenetics Program. Previously, Dr. Whetstine served a…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center In the Cellular Immunotherapy and Transplantation Program at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, scientists are pursuing a cross-colla…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and their collaborators at other institutions have identified a link between how proteins bind to our DNA an…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University By comparing genetic sequences in the eye tumors of children whose cancers spread with tumors that didn’t, Johns Hopkins M…

GW Cancer Center Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) have found that cooling therapies such as cold caps, scalp cooling systems, frozen gloves, and frozen socks may offer the …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Antonio Omuro, MD, has been appointed the new chief of neuro-oncology and a leader for the Brain Tumor Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital. Dr. Omuro …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park has formed an academic cooperation agreement with the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The collaboration will see the two center…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center The most comprehensive assessment of rhabdomyosarcoma drug targets was published. Justina McEvoy, PhD, a first author, joined the study when she was a p…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health According to a new study, individuals living in rural areas are at greater risk of developing laryngeal cancer compared to those living in urban areas, t…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center In partnership with Spirita Oncology, LLC, Hani Babiker, MD, and the Early Phase Clinical Trials Program have opened a clinical trial for patients with …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center When comparing standard-of-care surgical options for women with early-stage cervical cancer, two studies led by researchers at The University …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center New research suggests that doctors may have had an incorrect understanding of how a standard treatment for an incurable blood cancer works to prolong lives. The t…

Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School In December, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School will launch an innovative cancer care mo…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center In newly published work, Hutch researchers show that skin stem cells in mice respond to what ought to have been a cancer-causing mutation by opting to differentia…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Experimenting with lab-grown brain cancer cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have added to evidence that a shortage…

University of Virginia Cancer Center The NIH has awarded a husband-and-wife team at UVA Cancer Center more than $1.8 million to improve radiation therapy and breast surgery for patients with e…

Stanford Cancer Institute A novel immunotherapy appears safe for use in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to a Phase I multicenter clinical trial led by a researcher at the Stanf…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center With the help of a $2.1 million grant, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU School of Nursing researchers will study how a gene …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Jill Fehrenbacher, PhD, and Mark Kelley, PhD, are recipients of a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute, which…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Women with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to the brain need more treatment options, and City of Hope and Mustang Bio Inc. are meeting tha…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $3.5 million, five-year grant from the NIH to create a center dedicated to dev…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah was recently awarded a prestigious team scie…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The National Cancer Institute awarded $10.8 million to Duke Cancer Institute researchers as part of the Human Tumor Atlas Network, which w…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park's president and CEO, Candace S. Johnson, PhD, has been named to a new list of the most powerful female leaders in New York. City & State, a m…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center have received an $11.5 million Specialized Program in Research Excellence (SPORE) grant to further high-level i…

Siteman Cancer Center Scottrade brokerage founder Rodger Riney and his wife, Paula, have donated $20 million to Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center, establishing the Pau…

In partnership with the American Cancer Society and the Cancer Center DEI Network, AACI will hold the 2024 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Summit on October 19-20 in conjunction with the 2024 …

The 2024 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting will be held October 20-22 at Loews Chicago Downtown Hotel in Chicago, IL. 

Save the date for the 2025 AACI Catchment Area Data Excellence (CADEx) Conference, January 29-31, in Coronado, CA. Registration opens in September 2024.

Save the date for the 2025 AACI/AACR Hill Day, Thursday, May 22, in Washington, DC. More details and registration information are forthcoming.

Save the date for the 17th Annual AACI CRI Meeting, June 23-25, 2025, at Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL.

Save the date for the 2025 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, October 19-21, at Salamander Washington DC.