Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Susan G. Komen has announced breast cancer research grants, including $1.2 million in funding for three separate initiatives led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Cen…

Cancer Center at Illinois A new approach to treating breast cancer kills 95-100 percent of cancer cells in mouse models of human estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancers and their metastases …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UCSF researchers are beginning to engineer much more complex living therapeutics by tapping into the innate capabilities of living cells to…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Urologic surgical oncologist Michael Cookson, MD, MHA, FACS, has been appointed chief of the Duke Division of Urology. He will join Duke f…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently appointed medical oncology editor f…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Marcus Zachariah, MD, is co-lead author of a study on breast cancer brain metastasis, "HIF1A signaling selectively supports proliferation of breast ca…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center With a $2.26 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Rogel Cancer Center researcher Christine Veenstra, MD, MSHP, will seek to understand t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nancy Davis, MD, has been promoted to vice president for cancer care network and strategy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a new position responsible fo…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers Paul B. Fisher, MPh, PhD, FNAI, and Xiang-Yang (Shawn) Wang, PhD, were recently awarded $2.3 million in total fundin…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, founding director of the University of Rochester’s Center for RNA Biology, received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in recognition of pi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center analyzed the variation in vaccination rates among boys and girls within zip codes in Virginia. The results showed…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Neil Bhowmick, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer, was one of 10 Indian American scientists honored by the Society of Asian American Scientists i…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Younger cancer survivors—those between ages 18 and 64—faced fewer financial barriers to health care after the Affordable Care Act was implemented tha…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Cancer deaths were lower in the five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early on as part of the Affordable Care Act, c…

Stanford Cancer Institute A diet rich in fermented foods enhances gut microbe diversity and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to Stanford researchers. In a clinical trial, 3…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A new endowed professorship at The University of Kansas Cancer Center has been named to honor Carol Fabian, MD, founder of the cancer center’s Breast Can…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and Seattle Children’s have announced plans to explore restructuring their long…

Moffitt Cancer Center Sarabdeep “Sabi” Singh has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Moffitt Cancer Center. Prior to joining Moffitt, Singh served as the chief o…

Siteman Cancer Center Jeff M. Michalski, MD, MBA, vice chair and director of clinical programs in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has b…

Siteman Cancer Center Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is planning a nine-story, 659,000-square-foot facility that will…

Moffitt Cancer Center The family of It Works! founder Mark Pentecost has donated $10 million to Moffitt Cancer Center to establish a research center dedicated to finding a cure for multiple my…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center has earned renewal of it…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Director Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, has been named by the business journal NJBIZ as a 2021 Healthcare Hero in the heal…

Last month AACI welcomed the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine to its roster, bringing its membership number to 103. Directed by Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, the Meyer Cancer …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have continued to draw research support, garnering more than $34…

Robert Winn, MD, director of VCU Massey Cancer Center, has been elected to serve as vice president/president-elect of AACI’s board of directors. Marcia Cruz-Correa, MD, PhD; Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP; and…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The American Association for Cancer Research has recognized Edith P. Mitchell, MD, with the 2021 Minorities in Cancer Research-Jane Cooke Wright Lectu…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Nearly 10 million cancer screenings in the U.S. failed to happen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers, including the f…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Nearly a quarter of pregnant women say they’ve been around secondhand smoke—in their homes, at work, around a friend or relative—which, according to new …

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine When resecting tumors, surgeons aim to spare as much healthy tissue as possible while ensuring removal of the entire tumo…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Brandon Lennep, MD, a University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) assistant professor of cardiology, has been named to head the UMMC Cancer Center…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP, professor in the Department of Clinical Genetics and director of the Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, recently …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A long noncoding RNA whose function was previously unknown turns out to play an important role in promoting the body’s immune response against cancer…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford researchers have discovered a new kind of biomolecule that could play a significant role in the biology of all living things. The novel biomolecule, dubbed g…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Breast cancer patients, particularly those with metastatic disease, take bisphosphonates to prevent and treat bone lesions. A new analysis by scientists at Fred H…

Stanford Cancer Institute Eight Stanford Medicine scientists are among a group of pediatric cancer researchers being honored with the 2021 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer…

Cheryl L. Willman, MD, has been named executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. In her new role, Dr. Willman will lead the expansion a…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the promotion of Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD, MS, to chief diversity and equity officer for faculty. The…

Siteman Cancer Center Non-Hispanic African American women with triple-negative breast cancer do not fare as well as non-Hispanic white women with this type of breast cancer, according to new r…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Researchers at Jefferson have found that a commonly used risk prediction model does not accurately identify high-risk Black patients who could g…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center An international team of scientists from City of Hope and the Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University have developed an experimental…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new article, researchers from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine in New York found …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Deputy Director Eileen White, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is among 120 members electe…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Two experimental drug approaches that target vulnerabilities in cancer cell metabolism may extend survival and enhance the…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center While new inhibitors are demonstrating some success against a type of KRAS, new paths are needed. A study from the University of Michigan Rogel Cance…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have developed a new technology to overcome the inefficiencies and high err…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A personalized cancer vaccine developed with the help of a Mount Sinai computational platform raised no safety concerns and showed potential benefit i…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the appointment of Jordan Anaokar, MD, as the new site director for radiology. She specializes in over a dozen differen…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Pearl McElfish, PhD, MBA, has been named associate director of community outreach and engagement at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute a…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Two recent studies conducted at VCU Massey Cancer Center find strong evidence that prolactin acts as a major contributor to breast cancer development and…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine For women with breast cancer, frailty is linked to inflammation levels in the blood, according to a Wilmot Cancer Institute investigation. Higher inflammat…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center After reduced smoking rates, drugs that target signature alterations in tumor cells are the main reason that the death rate has dropped for people diagnosed with …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center congratulates its chief pharmacy officer, Lijian “Leo” Cai, PharmD, who will receive the 2021 Donald E. Francke Meda…

Siteman Cancer Center Heavy consumption of sugary drinks during adolescence and adulthood might increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer in women under age 50, according to a new stud…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A large group of Duke Cancer Institute investigators led by researcher Gayathri Devi, PhD, has been awarded a three-year $1.6 million U.S.…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation has given $1.8 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Myeloma Center in the Winth…

Stony Brook Cancer Center The Stony Brook University Cancer Center has received funding from the New York State budget to help it attain National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Cente…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A recent study by Cleveland Clinic researchers suggests that interactions between the breast microbiome and local immune responses may influence breast cancer de…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A research team co-led by Andrew Godwin, PhD, deputy director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, and Yong Zeng, PhD, has been awarded a $3.1 mill…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Jessica Jin, RN, BSN, BMTCN, a clinical nurse III, is the 2021 Blood and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse of the Year. The annual award by the …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine The University of Rochester has been selected by the American Society of Clinical Oncology as one of five host schools to participate in the inaugural Onco…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at UVA Cancer Center have unveiled new insights into how androgens act on our cells – and the discovery could boost efforts to develop better t…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool th…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center $4 million in cont…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Leland W. Chung, PhD, who served as director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer for 12 years, died May 10 of kidney cancer. He was 80. …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The New Jersey State Cancer Registry, under the direction of the State Department of Health in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, h…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Ken Batai, PhD, a health disparities researcher at the UArizona Cancer Center, has documented an increased risk of mortality among Arizona’s Hispanic Am…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine has been awarded more than $17.5 million in grants by the Cancer Prevention & Research Ins…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, and Peter Kuhn, PhD, director of the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer at the USC Michelson Center for Conve…

Cancer Center at Illinois In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu, PhD, received a $250,000 CCIL Seed Grant to support his research on the characteriza…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences conducted more than 100,000 digital health visits following the COVID-19 outbreak, seeing its high…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New data published by researchers at OSUCCC – James suggests that an oral drug curre…

Stanford Cancer Institute To advance studies of cell migration, Stanford researchers have worked to develop and test new types of material that closely imitate the real tissue that surrounds c…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Suyun Huang, PhD, recently discovered how cholesterol becomes dysregulated in brain cancer cells and showed that the …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons, launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the Univ…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia suffer remarkably fewer relapses and are far more likely to survi…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer starts with mutations in a cell’s DNA, but new UC San Francisco research shows that the endurance of a tumor relies on its ability t…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new article, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers demonstrate how an important defect in STING gene expression in melanoma cells contributes to their evasion from immun…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center People with ovarian cancer frequently receive aggressive end-of-life care despite industry guidelines that emphasize quality of life for those with a…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey deputy director, Eileen White, PhD, has been elected to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The American Association for Cancer Research has named Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, MD, PhD, as co-winner of the Molecular Cancer Research Michael B. Ka…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study at OSUCCC - James will evaluate how COVID-19 impacts the immune system of ca…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center used machine learning techniques to detect mutational signatures in …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Cardiovascular disease-related mortality among prostate cancer patients is significantly higher among Black patients compared with white patient…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Funded by a two-year, $2.08 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a new collaboration between two western New York cancer research leaders …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Wilmot Cancer Institute team is launching a two-year research project to develop different types of text messages for smoking cessation, and then study t…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at City of Hope have developed a novel, noninvasive liquid biopsy test for detecting lymph node metastasis in individuals with high-risk T1 …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Analyzing tumors from more than 2,600 patients and 38 cancer types, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Neeraj Agarwal, MD, a physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, has been appointed senior director of clinical research innovation, …

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, FASCO, has been appointed as chief of the division of hematology and oncology in the UF College of Medicine. Dr. Ma…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute A $2.7 million U.S. Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Academy Leadership Award has been awarded to Nita Maihle, PhD. She shares the award with Doug…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Early results from a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy trial led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center foun…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using a field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored, and…

University of Virginia Cancer Center New research from the UVA Cancer Center’s Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD, could rescue once-promising immunotherapies for treating solid cancer tumors, such as…

University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD, has been selected to lead the Cancer Therapy Discovery and Development program at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Can…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute physician assistant Scott Balderson, PA-C, has begun his term as president of the national Association of Physician Assist…

Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, has been appointed director of The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine. He joi…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of c…

Siteman Cancer Center Justin M. Sacks, MD, has been named director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Sacks wil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Agnes Witkiewicz, MD, as director of cancer genetics and genomics. She will also hold the John &…