University of Illinois Cancer Center The American Cancer Society awarded the University of Illinois Cancer Center a $4.08 million, four-year grant to establish the Illinois Cancer Health Equit…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center About half of people undergoing chemotherapy report changes to their taste buds, such as a bitter taste in their mouth. Discussions with members of the T…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine A Yale Cancer Center research team has identified novel oncogenic gene fusions in lung and pancreatic cancer, as well as sarcoma. The fusions involv…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has opened the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry Study, which is sponsored by the Ameri…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered a molecule that inhibits the growth and metastasis of panc…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) following the 9/11 attacks exposed first responders to potential carcinogens. A new study reported …

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone The Brain and Spine Tumor Center at NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center is now using ExacTrac Dynamic, a patient positioning and moni…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Colorectal cancer experts have launched a new initiative aimed at improving early de…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Krishna Komanduri, MD, has been named the new chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at UCSF Health. Dr. Komanduri will also assume t…

University of Virginia Cancer Center An unexpected discovery at UVA Cancer Center has allowed scientists to halt the development of small-cell lung cancer in lab mice, and the finding could op…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, director of the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, has discovered novel…

WVU Cancer Institute The WVU Cancer Institute has named Courtney DeVries, PhD, as the new deputy director effective Monday, March 14. She will help lead research initiatives within the Institu…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK HealthCare announced a historic $10 million gift from Central Bank to support expanded patient care at the UK Markey Cancer Center. It is the largest gift in UK Heal…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Fred Hirsch, MD, PhD, received the 2022 Heine H. Hansen Award from the European Society for Medical Oncology in recognition of his lifelong outstanding cont…

On March 17, Ruben A. Mesa, MD, participated in a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing, titled "The Future of Medicine: Legislation to Encourage Innovation and Improve Oversight." The hearing …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Crowdfunding has become a means for people with cancer to get help managing the financial impact of their disease. But while there’s relief in paying…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute announces that Ronald Caplan, founder and president of PMC Property Group, Inc., and his wife Ellen, have don…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago Medicine plans to build a $633 million, 500,000-square-foot facility dedicated to cancer care on its me…

Siteman Cancer Center Two Washington University physician-scientists at Siteman Cancer Center have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, and …

Jefferson Health has named Andrew Chapman, DO, FACP, director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and executive vice president of oncology services. Dr. Chapman has been serving as the center’s interi…

Stanford Cancer Institute Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, has been jointly awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for creating a new biochemical field of study and contributing to the understanding of the …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that the MEK inhibitor trametinib reduced the risk of…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Compared to U.S. urban adults, rural adults were more likely to think fatalistically about cancer and feel overwhelmed by information about …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using data from over 100,000 malignant and non-malignant cells from 15 human brain metastases, UCSF researchers have revealed two functiona…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Nancy Chan, MD, a medical oncologist who treats people with breast cancer, joined NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center in Septe…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Vince Jensen has been appointed chief clinical operating officer for City of Hope. He will lead clinical operations on the institution’s main campus, a…

Siteman Cancer Center The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has reaccredited the radiation oncology practice at Siteman Cancer Center. After a comprehensive evaluation by ASTRO, Sitema…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center is home to seven members selected as 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Elizabeth R. Hughes, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Duke University School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine The American Society for Clinical Investigation has elected two Baylor College of Medicine faculty members to its new class of …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center is pleased to announce four 2021 Young Investigator Award winners selected by the American Journal of Hematology (AJH). The winners wer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The two leaders of the Immersion Science Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, which allows students to explore science in a hands-on way while also providing va…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine A new study by researchers at Yale Cancer Center shows inhibition of the CECR2 gene prevents triple-negative breast cancer from advancing or metasta…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine are discovering new ways to find out how effective a drug might be a…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a potential new target for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The study outline…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Tung Nguyen, MD, has been named associate director for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensiv…

University of Colorado Cancer Center University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center leader Wells Messersmith, MD, has been named chief medical officer of oncology services at UCHealth. He will over…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Researchers with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health and Research recently published four articles o…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center In the latest and largest study yet of a novel technique for treating leukemia patients, researchers have affirmed that it dramatically reduces chronic graft vs. …

University of Virginia Cancer Center Paola A. Gehrig, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She joins UV…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Mignon Loh, MD, and Elizabeth M. Swisher, MD, have been appointed deputy directors of the Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium. They replace Nanc…

Stanford Cancer Institute People who have been treated with the cancer drug rituximab, or similar drugs, respond poorly or not at all to subsequent COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, according to a study…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of Chicago teamed up for one of the first known projects to successfully isolate and study extr…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Dual studies by Cedars-Sinai Cancer researchers have found significant differences in the durability of antibody responses and frequency of breakthrough cases in patients w…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The anti-fogging sprays and cloths many people use to prevent condensation on their eyeglasses when wearing a mask or face shield may cont…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai may help make cancer treatment more efficient and shorten the time it takes for people to recover from radiat…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Immunotherapy given before surgery caused liver cancer tumors to die off in one-third of the patients enrolled in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Using advanced cell sequencing technology and state-of-the-art imaging techniques, researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have provide…

University of Virginia Cancer Center New guidelines for treating cancers that have spread to the brain are poised to improve care for patients and help many live longer, better lives. The new …

University of Colorado Cancer Center Marie Wood, MD, has been named the medical director of the cancer clinical trials office at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. She completed medical…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Stephanie Blank, MD, has been named associate director of women’s cancers for The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. In this role, Dr. Blank will …

Siteman Cancer Center The Washington University Cardio-Oncology Center at Siteman Cancer Center has been recognized by a leading international group. The center received designation as a Center of E…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A genome study undertaken by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers, directed by Marikki Laiho, MD, PhD, looking f…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Mateusz Opyrchal, MD, PhD, is the inaugural Vera Bradley Foundation Chair in Breast Cancer Discovery in the Vera Bradley Fo…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine When Edward Messing, MD, FACS, assumes the American Urological Association (AUA) presidency in May 2022, he will follow in the footsteps of other leaders in the …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, was awarded the 2022 Sjöberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also awards Nobel Prizes. He is being honor…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A study by VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers shows that triplatin is effective against triple negative breast cancer. Triplatin, a 30-year-old drug, h…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has named Sanjay Goel, MD, MS, as director of its Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program. He is also a profe…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ten years ago, the University of Kansas Clinical Research Center opened its doors. The facility looked like a building in a suburban office park, not a p…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah An international study of colorectal cancer called the ColoCare study has received a five-year renewal and $10 million to fuel new innovatio…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH, associate research professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently recognize…

"After implementing Patient Resource Guides, 60 percent of patients who came from other cancer programs for a second opinion selected our center to receive their care." - Mark S. Roh, MD, Former Pres…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers with the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine have been awarded more than $…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone When Abraham Chachoua, MD, walks into a patient’s room, he stays for a while. His patients are an extension of his family, and he loves …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A Phase II study led by Anwaar Saeed, MD, and investigators at The University of Kansas Cancer Center shows promising efficacy in people with metastatic …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, is stepping down on June 30 to focus on a combined leadership role for Vanderbilt Univ…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Raymond N. (Ray) DuBois, MD, PhD, will join the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research as executive chairman of the board. He will ass…

Last month President Joe Biden announced a relaunch of the White House Cancer Moonshot. To implement the plan, the administration will convene a "cancer cabinet" of government officials with the goal…

On February 17, an opinion piece co-authored by AACI President Caryn Lerman, PhD, and Vice President/President-elect Robert A. Winn, MD, appeared on TheHill.com. In "Ending Cancer As We Know It," Drs…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Craig B. Thompson, MD, has announced his intention to step down as president and chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. T…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University will radically expand treatment options for liver and liver-related metabolic diseases thanks to a historic $104 million…

Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, Cornelius Abernathy Craig Professor of Medicine, and deputy director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named the center’s new director. Park will begin ser…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Research led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medic…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using data from over 300 patient tumors, UC San Francisco researchers have described 12 classes of "immune archetypes" to classify cancer t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Gerald Arthur Grant, MD, an internationally known surgeon-scientist, has been named the new chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Duk…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Bobbie J. Rimel, MD, has been appointed medical director for the Cancer Clinical Trials Office (CCTO) at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. Dr. Rimel’s research has focused on clinical t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The first study to evaluate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of fully vaccinated patients with cancer who had breakthrough COVID-19 infections indicate…

Siteman Cancer Center Geoffrey L. Uy, MD, a Washington University physician at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named co-chair of the Leukemia Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in O…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center has been conducting research on disparities in prostate cancer, specifically evaluating the interplay between social and biological mechanisms that …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that chemotherapy after surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma is significantly…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center University of Arizona Cancer Center Member Jennifer Barton, MD, has spent nearly a decade developing a falloposcope to detect ovarian cancer in its earl…

University of Illinois Cancer Center Researchers from the University of Illinois Cancer Center have developed a compound that more than doubles mean survival time in animal models of pancreati…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center On March 1, Renato G. Martins, MD, MPH, will become the new chair of hematology, oncology and palliative care at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Departm…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Faith E. Davies, MD, has been appointed the inaugural director of the Center for Blood Cancers at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery and co-director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Amy Jo Jenkins, MS, CCRP, has been named associate director of administration for the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Succeeding Je…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center To investigate mutations in a key cancer-promoting genetic pathway, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers led the development of a melan…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Over the past four years, Manali Kamdar, MD, has been the lead investigator on a global, multicenter, Phase III clinical study that shows that Breyanzi (li…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a color-coded test that quickly signals whether newly developed nanopart…

University of Colorado Cancer Center The University of Colorado Cancer Center is pleased to announce several leadership transitions. Patricia Ernst, PhD, will join Tin Tin Su, PhD, as co-leade…

Stanford Cancer Institute A combination of anti-cancer antibodies produced a powerfully synergistic response in two hard-to-treat pediatric cancers, according to a new study in mice, led by re…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Some women with BRCA-1 mutations choose to have their breasts or ovaries and fallopian tubes surgically removed even though they may never develop cancers in these tissues.…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida researchers have developed a new genomics-based score to deliver more personalized and effective chemotherapy treatments to ped…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A new data portal called Cancer-Immu established by a team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center biostatisticians can help cancer clinicians and researchers p…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A blood test, combined with a risk model based on an individual’s history, more accurately determines who is likely to benefit from lung cance…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has named David C. Smith, MD, chief medical officer and associate director for cancer clinical …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Cheryl Sampson, MBA, has joined the Clinical Research Office at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. She brings more than 20 years of exper…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Two University of Mississippi Medical Center physicians have been honored by the American Cancer Society for partnering with the nonprofit in preventing and…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The combination of two novel immune therapy agents could be an effective new treatme…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone A new risk score can identify men and women under age 50 most likely to develop a cancer of the colon or rectum, an international study …