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Finding Familiar Pathways in Kidney Cancer 

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…
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Discovery Could Lead to New Breast Cancer Drugs 

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…
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Tobacco 21 Now Federal Law

Tobacco 21 Now Federal Law 

On December 20, 2019, President Donald Trump signed a federal budget bill for Fiscal Year 2020. The spending package included passage of Tobacco 21, which raises the legal age for purchasing tobacco …
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PCLI Welcomes New Members to Steering Committee 

Six new members have been selected to join AACI’s Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) Steering Committee: Steven R. Alberts, MD, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center; Julie Brahmer, MD, Sidney Kimme…
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Register Today for AAC Is Next PCLI Webinar

Register Today for AACI’s Next PCLI Webinar 

The AACI Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host "Maintaining a Clinical Research Practice at an Academic Cancer Center" at 2:00 pm eastern time on Wednesday, March 4. PCLI Steering…
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Reminder: Join AACI for a PCLI Webinar on March 4 

The AACI Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host "Maintaining a Clinical Research Practice at an Academic Cancer Center" at 2:00 pm eastern time on Wednesday, March 4. PCLI Steering…
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UCSF to Co-lead Rare Cancers Initiative 

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 …
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Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Underway 

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…
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Alyea Named Chief Medical Officer

Alyea Named Chief Medical Officer 

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…
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Study Sheds Light on Gastric Cancer Development

Study Sheds Light on Gastric Cancer Development 

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…
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Fox Chase Earns Accreditation From ANCC 

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…
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Hooper Selected as Deputy Director of the NIMHD

Hooper Selected as Deputy Director of the NIMHD 

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…
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Sullivan Receives ASTCT Lifetime Achievement Award

Sullivan Receives ASTCT Lifetime Achievement Award 

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…
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CRI Meeting Registration Now Open

CRI Meeting Registration Now Open 

Registration is open for the 12th Annual AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Meeting, July 7-9, at Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. The program will provide networking opportunit…
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Forman Steps Down, Smith Appointed as New Chair 

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center After more than 30 years as chair of City of Hope’s Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Stephen J. Forman, MD, will tran…
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Wandinger Ness Wins AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award

Wandinger-Ness Wins AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award 

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, was honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with its 2020 Lifetime Mentor Award. She…
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AACI Retires Member Portal 

Effective immediately, AACI is retiring its member portal. Initially conceived of in 2012 as the presidential initiative of William S. Dalton, PhD, MD, the portal served as a valuable resource for me…
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SITC Launches COVID 19 Discussion Forums

SITC Launches COVID-19 Discussion Forums 

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), an AACI sustaining member, has launched two new online communities to rapidly disseminate critical informati…
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COVID-19 Concerns Prompt Meeting Changes 

The health and well-being of AACI meeting attendees, exhibitors, and cancer center patients is our top priority. With that in mind, we have been closely monitoring the coronavirus outbreak that has l…
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KU Cancer Center Sponsors Vaping Town Hall

KU Cancer Center Sponsors Vaping Town Hall 

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Around 60 teens attended a special town hall meeting on vaping sponsored by The University of Kansas Cancer Center in partnership with the Kansas City Ka…
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Deputy Director Appointed

Deputy Director Appointed 

Cancer Center at Illinois Paul J. Hergenrother, PhD, was appointed the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) deputy director, effective March 1. Dr. Hergenrother currently co-leads the CCIL researc…
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When Treating Bone Metastasis It Takes a Team

When Treating Bone Metastasis, It Takes a Team 

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke orthopedic surgical oncologists Brian Brigman, MD, PhD, William Eward, MD, DVM, and Julia Visgauss, MD; interventional radiologist Al…
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Cukierman Named AGA Fellow

Cukierman Named AGA Fellow 

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple HealthEdna Cukierman, PhD, co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named a fellow of the …
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Statins Starve Cancer Cells to Death 

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University More than 35 million Americans take statin drugs daily to lower their blood cholesterol levels. Now, in experiments with h…
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Sampson Named to New Leadership Role

Sampson Named to New Leadership Role 

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center John H. Sampson, MD, PhD, MBA, chair of the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, has assumed the role of president of the Private Diagnostic C…
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Oto Appointed Radiology Chair

Oto Appointed Radiology Chair 

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Aytekin Oto, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. His research, which is sup…
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Perkins Named Director of Proton Therapy Center

Perkins Named Director of Proton Therapy Center 

Siteman Cancer Center Stephanie M. Perkins, MD, a Washington University associate professor of radiation oncology, has been named director of the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center at Siteman …
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