Gray Receives NIH‘Genomic Innovator Award’
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Stacy Gray, MD, is one of six physicians to receive an inaugural "Genomic Innovator Award" from the National Human Genome Institute, part of the Nation…
Your search for "" returned 8198 results.
Read more about Gray Receives NIH 'Genomic Innovator Award'
Enzalutamide Improves Progression-Free Survival in Men With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
A group of clinical researchers, led by Duke Cancer Institute’s Andrew Armstrong, MD, MSc, FACP, have reported on results from the ARCHES …
Compound Could Play Novel Role in Halting Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
In early test tube and mouse studies, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center h…
Baby Aspirin Improves Overall Survival for Patients With Head/Neck, Lung Cancer
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
In companion presentations at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, doctors from Roswell Park Comprehensiv…
Yang Appointed Hematology Division Director
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
Yiping Yang, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Division of Hematology at the O…
Thoracic Surgeon Joins Karmanos Staff
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announces that David I. Sternberg, MD, thoracic surgeon, has joined its medical team as of August 1.…
Team Aims to Close Rural-Urban Cancer Survival Gap
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
While people in rural areas across the U.S. are less likely than urban dwellers to be diagnosed with cancer, they are more likely to die from it. A multi…
ASHG Awards City of Hope Genetics Leaders
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD, and Kathleen Blazer, EDD, MS, LCGC, as the 2019 recipients of the Arno Motulsk…
Breast Cancer Cells ‘Stick Together’ to Spread During Metastasis
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
A cell adhesion protein, E-cadherin, allows breast cancer cells to survive as they travel through the body and form new tu…
Surgeons Take on New Roles
UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute
Shannon Orr, MD, has been named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology, a new division in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Departmen…
UNM Bone Marrow Transplant Program Receives FACT Accreditation
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer CenterThe Bone Marrow Transplant program at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center recently received accreditation by the Foundation for the Accreditation…
Chwistek Appointed Editor-in-Chief of AAHPM Quarterly
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthMarcin Chwistek, MD, FAAHPM, has been appointed editor-in-chief of AAHPM Quarterly, which is published by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medici…
Abraham Appointed Chair of Hematology/Medical Oncology
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center
Jame Abraham, MD, FACP, has been appointed the new chair of the Hematology/Medical Oncology Department at Cleveland Clinic. In this capacity, he will recruit and…
Study Shows Benefit of Facebook Patient Support Groups in Rare Cancer Research
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
An article co-authored by Jerad Gardner, MD, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) demonstrates the ability to use internation…
Researchers Discover Role of Nuclear Glycogen in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers
UK Markey Cancer Center
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have made a breakthrough discovery that solves a mystery long forgotten by science and have identified a …
Pingree Named Chief Strategy Officer
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has announced the appointment of Scott Pingree, MBA, MPA, to serve as the organization’s…
AACI Welcomes New Steering Committee Members
This fall, AACI will welcome six new members to its Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) and Government Relations (GR) Forum steering committees. The new members will formally assume their duties durin…
How Cigarette Smoke Makes Head and Neck Cancer More Aggressive
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health
Thomas Jefferson University researchers studying the effects of cigarette smoke on tumor progression show that cigarette smoke reprograms the ce…
Grant Received to Expand Clinical Trials in Rural Kansas
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
The University of Kansas Cancer Center and Midwest Cancer Alliance have been awarded a grant to expand the reach of cancer clinical trials to rural commu…
Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers
Sleckman to Lead O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
Barry Paul Sleckman, MD, PhD, a world-renowned researcher who focuses on understanding how DNA double strand breaks are generated and repaired, has been named director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Can…
Lung Cancer, Health Disparities Expert Named Director of VCU Massey
Robert Winn, MD, has been named director of Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center. Dr. Winn, an expert in lung cancer and community-based health care, will start at VCU on December 2.…
October 2019
2019CRI Abstracts and Posters Now Available
The 2019 AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Abstracts and Posters Book is now available to AACI members. The book features 66 abstracts from 24 cancer centers submitted for presentation at the 1…
Patient Advocacy Plays Prominent Role at AACI Annual Meeting
Inspiring patient advocates delivered messages of hope and perseverance at the 2019 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC. The event convened more than 450 AACI cancer center directors and exec…
Researcher Honored for Work Advancing Immunotherapy
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Cancer Research Institute has awarded Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, director of the tumor immunology program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, wit…
Call for Nominations: Champion for Cures Award
AACI cancer center directors are invited to submit nominations for the 2020 Champion for Cures Award. AACI established the award in 2018 to recognize an individual or individuals who, through direct …
AACI Honors Scientific Discovery, Public Service, and Philanthropy at Annual Meeting
National Cancer Institute Acting Director Douglas Lowy, MD, received the Distinguished Scientist Award on October 21, during the 2019 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Dr. Lowy accepted the…
AACI Launches Public Policy Resource Library
The AACI Public Policy Resource Library went live on October 21, during the 2019 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The resource library is the presidential initiative of Roy A. Jensen, MD, …
Colorectal Cancer Researchers Receive SPORE Funding
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Colorectal cancer researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have been awarded a Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant from the National Cancer…
Grant Strengthens Breast Cancer Research Efforts
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Breast cancer researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have secured a fourth round of continuous Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) fundin…
$7.6 Million Grant Funds Center to Fight Cancer Disparities
Siteman Cancer Center
The National Cancer Institute has awarded $7.6 million to Washington University in St. Louis to create a research center that will develop ways to implement proven cancer…
$6.5 Million Grant Funds Hawai’i’s First Cutting-Edge Research Clinic
University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center received a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to significantly im…
Varian Partnership to Optimize Radiation Oncology Treatment
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Varian have announced a new strategic collaboration to develop an integrated software pl…
Researchers Document Marked Slowdown of Cell Division Rates in Old Age
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
In a novel study comparing healthy cells from people in their twenties with cells from people in their eighties, researche…
Deininger Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Leukemia Research
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
The International Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Foundation has awarded the Rowley Prize to Michael Deininger, MD, PhD. Dr. Deininger leads the Center of…
Formula Funding for Health-Related Institutions
University Cancer Research Fund
Pancreatic Cancer Discovery Reveals How the Aggressive Cancer Fuels Its Growth
University of Virginia Cancer Center
A new discovery about pancreatic cancer sheds light on how the cancer fuels its growth and may help explain how promising cancer drugs work — and for whom …
Jensen Appointed MSK’s First Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Claus Torp Jensen, PhD, has joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) as its first chief digital officer and head of technology. Dr. Jensen joi…
Researchers Selected to Join Immuno-Oncology Translational Network, Awarded $3.8 Million Grant
Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded a $3.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a new cytokine-based immunotherapy fo…
$8.3 Million Grant Advances Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Research
Moffitt Cancer Center
Moffitt Cancer Center has secured a new grant from the Department of Defense to advance immunotherapy research for patients whose breast cancer has metastasized to the br…
Gutmann Wins Neuro-Oncology Prize
Siteman Cancer Center
Neurologist David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, has received the Abhijit Guha Award from the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the Section on Tumors of the American Association of Neurologi…
Cancer Prevention Therapy Supported With $3.8 Million Grant
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
University of Michigan School of Dentistry faculty member Yu Leo Lei, DDS, PhD, is the principal investigator for research on new cancer prevention t…
CAR T Trial Aims to Extend Lives of People With Most Common Types of Lymphoma, Leukemia
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
The UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center has launched a pioneering chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) immunotherapy trial that will attack cancer cells by …
Peer-Reviewed Grant Programs
Machine Learning Helps Predict Which Cancer Patients Are Most Likely to Enter BMT‘Fog’
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Something happens in the months and years after cancer patients receive a blood or marrow transplant (BMT) from do…
Menendez Named Director of Clinical Cancer Genetics
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
Carolyn Menendez, MD, FACS, assistant professor of surgical oncology, has been appointed director of Duke Cancer Institute’s Clinical Canc…
Assistant Director for Clinical Research Announced
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Jyoti Patel, MD, has joined Northwestern Medicine as medical director of thoracic oncology and assistant director for cli…
$2.5 Million Awarded to Engage Underrepresented Students and Their Teachers in Cancer Research
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Huntsman Cancer Institute has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Cancer Institute’s Youth Enjoy Science Research Education Program …
Moffitt Cancer Center Launches Immunotherapy Contract Research Organization
Moffitt Cancer Center
Moffitt Cancer Center has launched a first-of-its-kind contract research organization focused on accelerating immunotherapy research. The subsidiary will provide a one-st…
Breast Cancer Screening: 2‑D or 3‑D?
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the landmark international Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), which…
Radiation Oncology Chair Named
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been named the Brandmeyer Chair and professor of radiation oncology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, clinical se…
Texas Fact Sheet
North Carolina Fact Sheet
Florida Fact Sheet
Vaping With Nicotine Causes Sticky Mucus That May Lead to Chronic Illness
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…
New Organelle Found That Helps Prevent Cancer
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…
Failed Alzheimer’s Drug Boosts CAR T‑cell Therapy
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
A new study describes how gamma secretase inhibitors, or GSIs, can reverse a disappearing act that multiple myeloma pulls on the immune system. That ability to va…
Algorithm Reduces Need for Therapy in Children With Intermediate-Risk Neuroblastoma
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
A recent Children’s Oncology Group study identified a treatment algorithm that can help reduce therapy for some patients with intermediate-risk neurobl…
New Mechanism Fueling Brain Metastasis Discovered at Wistar
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…
Aggressive Breast Cancers Store Large Amounts of Energy, Enabling Them to Spread
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…
Bleicher Receives Breast Cancer Award
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…
ASTRO Grant and Fellowship Opportunities Now Open
American Society for Radiation Oncology
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is now accepting applications for its residents/fellows seed and early career development 2020 grant…
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Risk of Thyroid Cancer on Ultrasound
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…
Triplet-Targeted Therapy Improves Survival for Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer and BRAF Mutations
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…
Study Suggests New Metabolic Target for Liver Cancer
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…
New Gene Expression Tool Allows for More Accurate Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules
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…
Metabolic Vulnerability Found in Cancer Cells With Mutated Spliceosomes
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…
Zafar Named Director of Healthcare Innovation
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…
Ferrell Elected to National Academy of Medicine
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…
Research Excellence Awards Mark Faculty, Staff Achievements
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…
Scientists Discover Why Targeted Immuno-Oncology Drugs Sometimes Fail
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 …
Researchers First to Show That Specific Protein Inhibitor Kills Multiple Myeloma Tumor Cells
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…
Weiss Receives Coley Award
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…
NCIU54 Award to Reduce HPV-Associated Cancers in Latin America
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…
Save the Dates: 2020 Annual Meetings — Chicago and Kansas City
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…
November 2019
Theodorescu Named AAAS Fellow
Cedars-Sinai Cancer
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Theodorescu, an internati…
Genetic ‘Fingerprint’ May ID Breast Cancer Patients Likely to Benefit From Potentially Toxic Chemo
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 Announces Multi-Million Dollar Gift
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 …
New Research Funding Totals Nearly $22 Million
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…
Sharpless Returns as NCI Director
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…
International Collaboration for Scientific Training Launched
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…
Secondary Surgery Does Not Improve Overall Survival for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Patients
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…
MD Anderson and University of Puerto Rico Receive $13 Million Grant Renewal
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…
WVU Names Interim Director
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…
Trial Aims to Curb HPV-related Cancers in HIV+ Women and Children
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 …
Kidney Cancer Study Uncovers New Subtypes and Clues to Better Diagnosis, Treatment
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…
Prostate Cancer Program Awarded $8.7 Million
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…
Study IDs Effects of Bazedoxifene and Conjugated Estrogen on Breast Cancer Risk Biomarkers
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 …
New Chief Nursing Officer Named
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 …
Clues to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy Revealed
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…
Catchy Headlines for Health Awareness Campaigns Not Enough to Inspire Action
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…
New $5.7 Million Grant Aims to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening, Follow-Up Care in Appalachia
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…
Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published
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…
Holmen Receives Melanoma Research Award
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…
Spread of Breast Cancer Halted by Blocking Metastasis-Promoting Enzyme
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…
Protein Decoy Stymies Lung Cancer Growth in Mice
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…
Oxygen-Starved Tumor Cells Have Survival Advantage That Promotes Cancer Spread
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…