University of Virginia Cancer Center Women who live in urban and rural areas get screened for breast cancer at similar rates, but rural women get screened for colorectal cancer at significantl…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Candice Lucas, EdD, MBA, has been named Wilmot Cancer Institute’s first chief community impact officer. The position is located within the Community Outrea…

Moffitt Cancer Center Elsa R. Flores, PhD, has been named Moffitt Cancer Center’s associate center director of basic science. In her new role, Dr. Flores will oversee the Basic Science Divisio…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center member Asrar Malik, PhD, was awarded the 2021 Solbert Permutt Trailblazer Award in Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine by the …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University When thousands of schools transitioned to online learning in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many children with cancer …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A collaborative research team led by scientists from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has det…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai The National Cancer Institute has awarded Mount Sinai researchers Arvin Dar, PhD, Ernesto Guccione, PhD, and Amaia Lujambio, PhD, $3.15 million in gra…

Of more than 85,000 patients surveyed: Improves outcomes: 95% state the guides assist them in following their doctor’s treatment plan Increases market share: 90% report the guides will influence the…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nashville Biosciences, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has announced an agreement with Illumina, a leading genomic technology…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Chicago Medicine breast cancer expert Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, has been named the recipient of this year’s William L. Mc…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Less than half of Americans understand that alcohol consumption increases cancer risk, and a majority of people surveyed say they would support warning lab…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Research led by scientists at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA provides new insights into molecular "crosstalk" in pancreas cancer cells…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Scientific evidence supporting the involvement of the enzyme MAPK4 in cancer growth and resistance to certain therapies h…

Stanford Cancer Institute Pathologist Paul Mischel, MD, and postdoctoral scholar Junfeng Bi, PhD, have discovered that fluoxetine (commonly known as Prozac) appears to target glioblastoma, at …

Siteman Cancer Center Alexander H. Stegh, PhD, a leading brain cancer scientist, has been named research director of the Brain Tumor Center at Siteman Cancer Center, which brings together the …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The American Cancer Society (ACS) has hired Arif Kamal MD, MBA, MHS, FACP, FAAHPM, FASCO, as its first chief patient officer to lead its p…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center According to a new study co-authored by Joseph McGuirk, DO, a form of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy known by its brand name, Yescarta …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The FANS (Female Asian Never Smokers) Study aims to collect data from Asian American women to shed light on the issue of non-smoking lung c…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Grasping the genetic mutations that drive non-small cell lung cancer has led to new treatments. Yet when a patient is diagnosed with an alteration in…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has approved a purchase agreement for $6.9 million to acquire residential parcels across from UK Albert B. Chandler Hospita…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Massey Cancer Center is working with analytics company SAS to power vital research into higher cancer and mortality rates among low-income and vulnerable…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) has appointed M. Eileen Dolan, PhD, as its deputy director…

As part of the presidential initiative of Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, AACI surveyed its members in 2020 to understand catchment area coverage. Results of the survey were published in a manuscript, "A…

The George Washington University (GW) is pleased to announce that Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, will join its academic medical enterprise to serve as the director of GW Cancer Center in March 2022. In th…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center An international research team co-led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Cent…

Dr. Wendy Brewster is associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. A story in the “Leadership Transitions” section of the December 2021 AACI U…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center The new Massey Cancer Center Community Grant Program will help community partners expand programs focused on the promotion of health, health equity, pers…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center member Jiyeon Kim, PhD, received a four-year grant from the American Cancer Society to investigate whether the pathway…

Stanford Cancer Institute The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing infection in most cancer patients, according to a nationwide study of veterans diagnosed with cancer in t…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah have created a device, named URSKIN, that exploits changes in the electr…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center led a large international study providing what is believed to be the first evidence (albeit ind…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey In a recent viewpoint paper, investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School explored how artificial intell…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health New research shows that women with advanced melanoma are twice as likely as men to die when treated with a combination of the checkpoint inhibit…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Rebecca (Becky) Cammy, LCSW, manager of social work at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health, has been accepted into the Cambia Health F…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center hematology experts in leukemia, lymphoma, and other specialties presented new research at the 63rd annual meet…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center have identified a drug compound that makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy. Studying mi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The University of Florida Health Cancer Center announces two leadership changes aimed at advancing innovation and excellence in cancer research, care…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has named computational biologist Robert Bradley, PhD, scientific director of the Hutch’s Translational Data Science Integr…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center Since 2004, only two therapies have been approved for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma, which affects about 3,000 people a year in the United Sta…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified growth hormone in the colon that increases as the colon ages – a discovery that can help guide the development of a new anti-a…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, a qu…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Combination therapies including venetoclax and another therapy have displayed promising results against subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia(AML…

Moffitt Cancer Center Results from the ZUMA-7 clinical trial, led by Frederick Locke, MD, vice chair of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy Departmen…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A team of Vanderbilt researchers has revealed some of the mechanisms by which polyps develop into colorectal cancer, setting the framework for improved surveill…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Women who live in urban and rural areas get screened for breast cancer at similar rates, but rural women get screened for colorectal cancer at significantl…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A subgroup analysis of a Phase III study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found consistent progression-free survival …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Roman Skoracki, MD, has been named medical director of the Stefanie Spielman Compreh…

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University received a $2,997,215 federal grant to help determine why African Americans show poorer r…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever drug to be used for the prevention of acute graft versus host disease (aGVH…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Wilmot Cancer Institute researchers are a step closer to understanding the complex gene interactions that cause a cell to become malignant. In a new study,…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center In the battle against one type of leukemia, a genetic mutation could hold the key to more effective, lower-dose treatments. The new, early findings b…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center With $3 million in support from a longtime donor to the University of Vermont Cancer Center, Director Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, was invested as the …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center  STAT News has named Arnethea Sutton, PhD, as one of this year’s 27 STAT Wunderkinds – the news organization’s award recognizing rising stars in biomedical rese…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has announced study results of a Phase II clinical trial showing monotherapy with sotorasib resulted in anti-tumor activity and a favorabl…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Stephanie Greco, MD, FACS, an assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, became a Fellow of the American College of…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Although Black lung cancer patients are more likely to die from their disease than white patients, they have better outcomes than whites w…

Siteman Cancer Center Nine research members of Siteman Cancer Center were named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list of 2021. The nine, who are faculty members of Washington University Schoo…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Socioeconomic status may be a factor when it comes to using telemedicine, researchers have observed. Among 16,000 people with a new cancer diagnosis, tho…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A research team co-led by Cedars-Sinai has created a method for using widely available data to identify proteins that could play key roles in tumor formation. Called master…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at City of Hope have identified a pathway that explains how mutated cancer cells can continue to replicate and become resistant to oncology…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Researchers at the University of Rochester Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience and Rochester Institute of Technology have received a U.S. patent for techn…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins astrophysicist, Alexander Szalay, PhD, and Kimmel Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, MD, MSc, received a Life …

UK Markey Cancer Center Launched in the summer of 2021 with funding from the American Cancer Society, SHE in Oncology empowers Kentucky high school students who identify as female with experie…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a nanoparticle released from cells, called a "supermere," which contains enzymes, proteins, …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco has launched the Baszucki Lymphoma Therapeutics Initiative to increase the effectiveness and availability of chimeric anti…

Moffitt Cancer Center With a transformational philanthropic gift of $15 million from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, Moffitt Cancer Center has announced that in 2022 it will initiate…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University A $25 million gift from life sciences entrepreneur and investor Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Almudena, will advance a plan to transform Brown Unive…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A new open-access book written by experts in the field of oncology, hematology, and stem cell transplantation—The Comprehensive Cancer Cen…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD, and colleagues have reported on their findings that show how cancer cells remain dormant for years after they leave a …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Theresa L. Werner, MD, has been appointed to the position of senior director of clinical research. She has served as clinical trials office …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium has named Christopher Li, MD, PhD, its first associate director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser has committed $30 million to Michigan Medicine to establish an innovative, patient-focused program in prosta…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new state-of-the-art center to treat people with blood cancers, i…

Stanford Cancer Institute Steven Coutre, MD, a professor of hematology at the Stanford School of Medicine, died November 9 in Palo Alto, California, from complications of leukemia and COVID-19…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Several Yale Cancer Center faculty have authored chapters in a newly released book, A New Deal For Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War. In recognitio…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, along with its partners National Medical Fellowships and the American Association for Cancer Research, select…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Like locking the door but opening windows, an immune checkpoint therapy temporarily slows glioblastoma progression but fails to establish an effective …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Doctors can safely lower the dose of cancer treatment such as chemotherapy without impacting survival for adults older than 70 who are at high risk for tox…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine The debilitating arm and shoulder disability and pain that some women who have had breast cancer surgery experience as a …

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Thy Huynh, MD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center as an assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics. She will be a member o…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health In Vino Vita, Fox Chase Cancer Center’s signature fundraising event, was held on October 30 at the National Constitution Center, and raised over $1.5 mil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center In acknowledgment of strong advocacy for its staff members and the launch of a program to enhance their mental health and well-being, Roswell Park Comprehens…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has been recognized for excellence in patient care with two Press Ganey Awards, the Pinnacle of Excellence Award and the Guardian of Ex…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a drug that, when given along with a bone marrow transplant, dro…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah In a new study, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of California San Francisco explain how common moles and melan…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Bridget Oppong, MD, has been appointed deputy director of the Center for Cancer Heal…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute member Hayley Moss, MD, MBA, has joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Oncology Program Office as…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD, as associate director …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Sonya Reid, MD, MPH, is a recipient of an NRG Oncology Underserved Minority Scholars Award. She is one of three inaugural recipients of the award, which was establish…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine For years much about anaplastic lymphoma kinase—its role in the body, which molecules interact with it, what it looks like—has remained unknown, lim…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center To correlate gene expression signatures with cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance, a team of scientists led by Rong Lu, PhD, from USC and Akil …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center More people with advanced melanoma survive for two years or more when they receive a combination of two immunotherapy drugs given before a combi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and Virginia State University have received a "team science” grant from the National Cancer Institu…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford researchers have developed a synthetic, tumor-targeting molecule that promotes immune activation and tumor regression in laboratory mice after it’s injected …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Leptin, a molecule produced by fat cells, appears to cancel out the effects of the estrogen-blocking therapy tamoxifen, a …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Ruth “Rikki” Kutcher Goldstein has made a $2 million gift to support cancer research at Indiana University School of Medici…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has opened of a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating the use of a cancer-killing oncolytic virus to treat patients with metastatic tri…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine A study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine can help scientists make reasonable predictions of what genomic …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Younger B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors (B-HNL) had a higher relative risk of developing age-related diseases than older B-NHL survivo…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent study shows that patients with non-small cell lung cancer reviewed by the UK Markey Cancer Center’s Molecular Tumor Board experience improved outcomes, even if…