Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University Marquita Lewis-Thames, PhD; June McKoy, MD, MPH, JD, MBA; Jonathan Moreira, MD; and Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI, have b…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A new study highlights how some older Americans diagnosed with cancer can face unlimited out-of-pocket spending for prescription drugs under the current structu…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Research from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, led by Duxin Sun, PhD, found that targeting the immune microenvironment in lymph nodes …

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that immunothera…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky’s Center for Cancer and Metabolism (CCM) will continue its critical mission to research the metabolism of cancer with a renewed Centers of Bi…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center The NSABP (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project) Foundation has announced that its medical director, Priya Rastogi, MD, will also serve as the chief executi…

Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School S. Gail Eckhardt, MD, is the recipient of the 2022 Hologic Inc. Endowed Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Eric Snyder, director of informatics at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, wants to change the nation’s thinking around information technology in health care. Sn…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health have appointed Ira Braunschweig, MD, as chief, Section of Transplant and Cell Therapy at Ru…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A new study shows that women receiving certain common therapies for breast cancer may be at increased risk for heart attack, stroke, heart failure, other cardiova…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC) has appointed Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, MACP, FRCP, as associate director for diversity, …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Paul Modrich, PhD, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry, professor of chemistry, and member of Duke Cancer Institute, came to Duke in 1…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation will provide $25 million in new grant funding to expand or establish five Ralph Lauren cancer centers, aim…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD, director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health and an internationally renowned expe…

The UF Health Cancer Center, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Moffitt Cancer Center will receive $100 million for cancer research and treatment in Florida's 2022-2023 spending plan, an incr…

Influence of Patient Resource on referrals Over a 3-year period, one cancer center shares a 12% increase of patient referrals year-over-year With more than 48,000 patients surveyed, 83% state that th…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC), along with the American Cancer Society (ACS), has been selected as a Faces of Philanthropy…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation received a $1 million gift to create the world’s first distinguished professorship in neuroendocrine tumor research.…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Neda Hashemi, MD, and her team at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center are offering several clinical trials, including a National Cancer Institu…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that 20 percent of early-stage breast cancer patients will develop metastasis within 20 years …

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Men diagnosed with prostate cancer prefer physicians to explain their life expectancy in quantitative terms—either as a number of years or as a probability of living at a t…

Moffitt Cancer Center Evan Zaslow has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the new vice president of payer strategies, overseeing all aspects of Moffitt’s managed care strategy. Before joining Moff…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Breast surgical oncologist Lauren DeStefano, MD, was recently added the growing roster of cancer specialists at Cedars-Sinai Cancer in Tarzana. She joins Cedars-Sinai Cance…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Co-leader of the Duke Cancer Institute Melanoma Disease Group Georgia Beasley, MD, MHSc, is among 40 recipients nationally of a Young Physician-…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine An analysis by Yale Cancer Center researchers identified accelerated genetic aging in breast tissue adjacent to breast cancer tumors. Their findings…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine M. Patricia Rivera, MD, has joined the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical Center with several prominent positions, including associate director…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Amy L. Cummings, MD, its new director for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI). Dr. C…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine To increase access to tumor genetic screening and study the utility of this strategy, the National Cancer Institute (NCI)…

WVU Cancer Institute A new data-driven mechanistic approach that predicts cell types within tissue will help to reduce drug costs and treat diseases that were difficult to develop drugs for. D…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine African American adult patients are more likely than white patients to receive substandard gastrointestinal cancer surgery, according to a large stu…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A recent study demonstrates the first successful living-donor liver transplants in North America for patients who have liver-confined colorectal cancer tum…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A recent study conducted by researchers from VCU Massey Cancer Center, the University of Florida College of Medicine and UF Health Cancer Center found th…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A recent study that shows manipulating and deleting a specific gene (AMN1) from yeast could provide a foundation for a new approach to combating drug resistance when …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Combining a beta-blocker with the cancer immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab could be a promising new treatment option for many hard-to-treat solid-tumor …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center In a small but multi-institutional study, an artificial intelligence-based system improved providers’ assessments of whether patients with bladder ca…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Indiana University School of Medicine has named Shelley Johns, PsyD, ABPP, the Walther Scholar in Psycho-Oncology. Dr. Johns is t…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Faced with hardships intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, Marshallese communities in the United States mobilized to help one another. According t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Searching for ways to extend the survival benefit of targeted therapies, a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute identified…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Using the nation’s largest COVID-19 data resource, Jing Su, PhD, a researcher at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Sim…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Elana Fertig, PhD, has been elected by her peers as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (A…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah University of Utah Health scientists are launching SCALE-UP II and SCALE-UP Counts, a pair of initiatives designed to increase COVID-19 test…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, led by Nikki Nollen, PhD, have received a five-year, $3.9 million grant to explore the effectivene…

Stanford Cancer Institute Hematologist Jason Gotlib, MD, wanted more effective treatments for patients with systemic mastocytosis. His research has led to the approval of two new treatments by…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has selected four scientific research projects to receive $12 million in funding for its 2022 Endeavor Awards. Brent Fer…

Moffitt Cancer Center Patsy McDonald, PhD, and Derek Duckett, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center faculty members and founders of CADW Therapeutics, sent a scientific experiment to space in April as a …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study led by researchers in the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology at OSUCCC …

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine A new study from researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hosp…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Tumor biopsies are currently the most common tool for diagnosing lung cancer. However, according to a new paper published by the University…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Fox Chase Ca…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With the aid of a $3 million National Cancer Institute grant, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researchers aim to enhance the effectiveness of a di…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researcher Natasha Kyprianou, MBBS, PhD, a leading expert on prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer, has been awarded the Richard D. Williams, MD,…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Adding the immunotherapy drug nivolumab to chemotherapy before surgery for patients with operable non-small cell lung canc…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With the aid of a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, investigators from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, along with Holden…

Stanford Cancer Institute Samuel Strober, MD, professor of immunology and rheumatology, died in February of multiple myeloma. Focusing on improving transplant recipients’ lives, Dr. Strober de…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Radiation to the heart during treatment for locally advanced lung cancer is associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiac events within …

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Terry Badger, PhD, RN, a University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher, was one of only four recipients of a $4 million American Cancer Society grant…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine recently established the Sylvester Pancrea…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has recognized Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader, a…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A study has identified the Virginians least likely to know that there is a vaccine available for human papillomavirus (HPV). More than a quarter of respond…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Combining a retrospective analysis of clinical records with in-depth laboratory studies, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Ca…

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, has been appointed to a second five-year term as director of the Abramson Cancer Center. Highlights o…

Break Through Cancer will award $50 million in grants to support cutting-edge interdisciplinary research at five top cancer centers. MIT's David H. Koch Professor of Biology Tyler Jacks, PhD, is pres…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center has competed successfully for a third renewal of its Clinical and Translational Science Award by the National Institutes of…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, National Medical Fellowships, and the American Association for Cancer Research have announced a new name for a $100 mill…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Roy A. Jensen, MD, vice chancellor and director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, was awarded the Kansas Masonic Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award…

This month AACI welcomes the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT to its membership. Directed by Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD, the Koch Institute focuses on five strategic areas: n…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent UK Markey Cancer Center study gives more insight into how lung cancer differs in Kentucky compared to other U.S. populations. The research shows that Kentucky …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Suzanne M. Miller, PhD, a professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program, has received a two-year research gra…

Stanford Cancer Institute An unexpected link between tuberculosis and cancer may lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial disease, according to a study led by researchers at Stanford Medi…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying their cerebrospinal fluid…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine The simple distraction of looking at art and discussing it helped bring calm to a group of patients at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. The results of a random…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine has devised a novel and highly promising strategy for overcoming a key …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah For years, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have honed a process of developing breast cancer models using tumors donated by breast c…

Stanford Cancer Institute For more than 25 years, researchers around the world have been trying to find the structure of Janus kinases, or JAKs, a class of proteins that play a key role in cel…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Rural women are likely to face significant challenges finding secure and reliable employment following cancer treatment if they did not already ha…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Amyloid beta, a protein known to build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when the…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Targeting a specific protein that is often overexpressed in prostate cancer can help prevent or delay the disease from spreading to other parts of the body, according to a …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study has found that nearly one third of older adult female survivors of color…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has inducted Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, and Yu Shyr, PhD, into the 2022 class of Fellows of the AACR Academy. Read…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center epidemiologist Christopher Li, MD, PhD, was recently selected as the inaugural recipient of the Helen G. Edson Endowed Chair for …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Donald McDonnell, PhD, associate director for translational research, Duke Cancer Institute, was awarded the Science Foundation Ireland St. Patr…

WVU Cancer Institute The WVU Cancer Institute Cellular Therapy Program was recently awarded its sixth consecutive Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) reaccreditation for bloo…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully leveraged an FDA-approved drug to halt growth of tumors driven by mutations in the RAS ge…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Albert Einstein Cancer Center has announced the appointment of three faculty members to key leadership positions, including new deputy director …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The Rutgers University Board of Governors voted to approve Elisa Bandera, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in nutrition and cancer epidemiol…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center About one in seven breast cancers detected by mammography screening are over-diagnosed, according to a Duke Cancer Institute study designe…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Kaiser Permanente Northern California have identified the fir…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Scientists at Yale Cancer Center have discovered new consequences of specific gene mutations that play a role in the development of myelodysplastic …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new clinical trial from a team at the Rogel Cancer Center uses innovative basic science research methods to offer hope and a new treatment to gliob…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A new computational approach developed by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully combines data from par…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Surgical oncologist Itzhak Nir, MD, is the founding chief of the new Division of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) Surgery in the UNM Depart…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center secured a four-year, $3 million grant from Stand Up…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Anup Kasi, MD, MPH, is evaluating whether adding a novel agent called CEND-1 helps chemotherapy better permeate cancerous tumors. The Phase I/II investig…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With the aid of a recently awarded $3.5 million, five-year National Cancer Institute grant, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Tufts Medical Cent…

Siteman Cancer Center A new study in mice suggests that blocking a major inflammatory pathway that is activated in pancreatic cancer makes the tumors sensitive to chemotherapy and a type of im…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel therapy for patients with metastatic or inoperable melano…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center member Constance Jeffery, PhD, has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sh…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has appointed Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, as associate director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In this newly created rol…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Dorothy Graves, PhD, has been appointed assistant vice president and associate director for administration at Sylvester Comprehensive…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Stephanie Blank, MD, associate director of women’s cancer for The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, has taken on the role of president of the Soc…