Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Eunyoung Choi, PhD, and colleagues identified for the first time that Trop2+/CD133+/CD166+ dysplastic stem cells are a key source of clonal evolution of dysplas…

Moffitt Cancer Center To analyze images of tissue specimens to their fullest potential, scientists ideally need an application that enables multiple images to be viewed simultaneously. In a re…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Two new innovations could make it easier to decipher when cancers that impact women are present and need urgent attention. A system to detect circulating t…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced that Donna Hansel, MD, PhD, has been named division head of pathology and labo…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) announced that nine outpatient oncology group practices have achieved certification through the new …

President Joe Biden has appointed Carol Brown, MD, FACOG, FACS;Elizabeth Jaffee, MD; and Mitchel Berger, MD, FACS, FAAN, to the President’s Cancer Panel. Dr. Brown is senior vice president and chief …

The AACI-endorsed CLINICAL TREATMENT Act, which took effect January 1, 2022, requires all states and territories to cover and reimburse routine costs of care for treating a Medicaid enrollee who is p…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) surgeon-scientist Tammara Lynn Watts, MD, PhD, has been named associate director of Equity, Diversity and Incl…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center While children receiving chemotherapy routinely undergo hearing tests, adults don’t, and a new study by UC San Francisco reports for the fi…

From July 12-14, AACI’s Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) convened its 14th annual meeting. The 444 in-person attendees (with an additional 117 joining online) participated in meeting sessions focus…

By the end of World War I, the use of chemical weapons had resulted in over 1,000,000 casualties on both sides. Through a series of events these weapons set in motion discoveries that led to the deve…

Last month AACI welcomed the Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center as its 105th member. The center serves eight counties in Southeast Texas and is led by Jenny Chang, MD. The center r…

Association of American Cancer Institutes In an interview with HemOnc Today, AACI President Caryn Lerman, PhD, said, "There’s an awareness of limited diversity at the highest levels of leaders…

Association of American Cancer Institutes AACI was saddened to learn that Mary "Dicey" Jackson Scroggins passed away on August 1. In her keynote at the 2021 AACI CRI Annual Meeting, she advoca…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently renewed the University of Arizona Cancer Center’s status as an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center a…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai investigators have created bio-realistic and complex computer models of individual brain cells, in unparalleled quantity. Their research details how these mode…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, and his team from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, studying the molecular landscape of over 500 patients wit…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center After a decade of researching inequities in clinical trials with a team of researchers and physicians in cancer digital health, Hala Borno,…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced the establishment of its scientific adviso…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, a leading expert on tobacco-related health disparities and co-founder of the National Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Research…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A gift of more than $5.75 million from anonymous donors will allow UVA Cancer Center to speed the development of new treatments for rare blood cancers and …

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a $9.5 million National Cancer Institute Program Project grant to …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Following a national search, David Darr has been named associate director of administration and senior director for research strategy and …

UK Markey Cancer Center Physicians and researchers from UK HealthCare's Transplant Center and the UK Markey Cancer Center conducted a study of patients over the age of 70 with hepatocellular c…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center New research from Vanderbilt investigators suggests that clinicians should take a deeper dive into distinguishing EGFR mutations when prescribing targeted thera…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Family medicine doctor Nicholas Shungu, MD, focuses on reducing health disparities, patient by patient, day by day, in his practice…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine received a five-year, $5.5 million-plus grant from the National Cancer Institut…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Wilmot Cancer Institute scientist published data that show a new microchip-like device that his lab developed can reliably model changes in the bone marr…

Siteman Cancer Center A grant to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will support research into understanding lung cancer recurrence. Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, and his colleagu…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The NCI recently awarded Larry Fong, MD, an Outstanding Investigator Award (R35). These awards support investigators with outstanding recor…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center report the results of a clinical trial exploring the role of stereotactic ab…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Worried about health effects from the U.S.’s increasingly smoky summers? One day, you may be able to pop a few pills that will help your cells pinpoint and extrac…

Moffitt Cancer Center Sarasota resident Phebe Morgan has made a $5 million gift to Moffitt Cancer Center to honor her lifelong love who had oral cancer. A longtime smoker, Glenn Hoffman was fi…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Laura Calvi, MD, a leader at the Wilmot Cancer Institute and the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Medicine, has been voted president-elect of…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Results of an international clinical trial co-led by researchers at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University show potential for a novel drug to…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using a CRISPR-based edit on T-cells’ genomes, researchers at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes have rendered the therapeutic cells…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to reduce the number of biopsies of benign thyroid nodules, according to new research from University of Colorado …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Aik Choon Tan, PhD, has been appointed senior director of data science at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and will also serve as a member of…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Sophia George, PhD, the inaugural associate director of diversity, equity, and inclus…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center During an event marking a decade of the Chuckstrong initiative, more than $2 million was raised for the Indiana University …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Kimberly Leslie, MD, was awarded a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the Department of Defense to further study high-risk uterine cancer. …

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Exposure to a synthetic chemical found widely in the environment is linked to non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, a…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Ju Dong Yang, MD, a liver cancer clinician-researcher who studies epidemiology, health disparities and outcomes, and biomarkers both nationally and globally, has been appoi…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Michael Washburn, PhD, is a recipient of the Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is p…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Lung disease caused by a new drug for cancers—including metastatic or advanced breast cancer—can be effectively treated using approaches that focus on…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Although typically classified as a single ethnic group, people of Hispanic heritage have markedly different risks for brain tumors based o…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center New technologies and treatment approaches brought Lara McKean Basté, MD, to colorectal surgery and to the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. …

Siteman Cancer Center A new study co-authored by Li Ding, PhD, has revealed details of two key transition points in the development of pancreatic tumors – the shift from normal to precancerous…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new article, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers demonstrate that cancer associated fibroblasts can promote or inhibit drug sensitivity based on the type of tumor cell…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma are more likely to suffer from mental-health and substance-abuse disorders than the general population. Calli…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and clinicians at Washington Universit…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) have limited options for treatment, with few drugs available for patients who have already complet…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Coaching patients to voice their concerns about their medical care and advocate for themselves can offset physicians’ racial bias so it doesn’t lead …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute En Huang, PhD, has received a three-year, $1 million research grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. Dr. Huang and his team will …

University of Colorado Cancer Center University of Colorado Cancer Center member Ryan Layer, PhD, has developed a method for scanning thousands of DNA samples to identify common variants. Scie…

AACI recently engaged in several conversations with representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the Biden administration’s efforts to increase clinical trial diversity…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Pregnancy in patients with lung cancer is uncommon. There are limited safety data during pregnancy for ALK inhibitors – targeted therapies for patients with non…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center To find out how much protection cancer patients have against measles and mumps, Steven Pergam, MD, MPH (pictured), along with his biostatistician colleague Elizab…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study published by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that the common steroid betamethasone could be used to reduce unwanted side effects of radiation t…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Studying triple-negative breast cancer, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have identified key molecular differenc…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The highly selective RET inhibitor pralsetinib was well-tolerated and demonstrated robust, durable responses in patients with RET fusion-posit…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center New research led by UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and involving more than 50 researchers suggests that new technology in development may lea…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A pre-clinical study led by Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta researchers finds that combination th…

AACI commends the Biden administration on its appointment of surgical oncologist Monica Bertagnolli, MD, as the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In addition to being the first woman t…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) programs accurately predicted the role of DNA’s regulatory elements and three-d…

Patient Resource is proud to support the upcoming 2022 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, October 2-4 in Kansas City. Please stop by our booth to learn more about how you can empower your patients while incre…

Cancer center directors Steven D. Leach, MD; Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD; and Sarah Thayer, MD, PhD, have been elected as new members of the AACI Board of Directors. Drs. Leach, Odunsi, and Thayer represen…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center The City of Hope Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), has announced a partnership with actress, singer-songwriter, and advocate Lynda Cart…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A $78 million commitment by Stuart Sloan and his wife Molly Sloan will establish the Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute at Fred Hutchinson Cancer…

AACI has added Northwell Health Cancer Institute to its membership roster. Directed by Richard Barakat, MD, the cancer institute is part of Northwell Health. Treating over 16,600 new cancer patients …

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has awarded Jonathan Backer, MD, a five-year, $10 million team science (P01) grant to investigate the mechanisms r…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has renewed funding for the Early Detection Research Network Lung Cancer Clinical Validation Center at Vanderbilt- Ingram Cancer C…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Kansas Governor Laura Kelly proclaimed September "Comprehensive Cancer Centers Awareness Month" in recognition of The University of Kansas Cancer Center …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health In a recently published supplement, the American Cancer Society’s National Navigation Roundtable, which is co-chaired by a Fox Chase Cancer Center resear…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Eunyoung Choi, PhD, and James Goldenring, MD, PhD, have received $5 million in funding from a new initiative by the National Cancer Institute that aims to defin…

Siteman Cancer Center Cancer research will get a boost in Missouri through a new collaboration between Siteman Cancer Center and University of Missouri Health Care’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Cente…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Unlike most other cancer types, where higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of cancer, research has established that, p…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A four-year study of the RAS family by researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, three other cancer centers, and …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A clinical trial led by clinicians at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center showed a remarkable 20 percent advantage in the two-year o…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai has appointed Cristina R. Ferrone, MD, as chair of the Department of Surgery. Currently a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and director of the Of…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The inaugural Vincent P. and Janet Mancini Presidential Endowed Chair is Jonathan Tward, MD, PhD. Dr. Tward serves as the lead physician on severa…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Colleen McCormick, MD, has a broad range of interests that include biochemistry, politics, and economics, but found a love for surgery. The…

Stanford Cancer Institute The Stanford Cancer Institute has named Terrance Mayes, EdD, the inaugural associate director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Mayes has served Stanford Medi…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Supported by a five-year, $3.9 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, Lisa Flowers, MD, MPH, Canhua Xiao, PhD, RN, FAAN, and the…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health New research from the lab of Elda Grabocka, PhD, shows a new way that obesity may drive cancer formation in pancreatic cancer. Researchers found…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Jasmin A. Tiro, PhD, MPH, has joined the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center as the new associate director…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A new discovery has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs, and liver form, and that finding could have important implications for our understanding …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Our cancer is written in our DNA. Or is it? By studying mutated cells that don’t turn cancerous researchers can discover how the body keeps mutated cells in line,…

UK Markey Cancer Center The cost of cancer treatment negatively impacts the physical and mental health of survivors who are living in poverty, according to a recent study co-authored by Lovori…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Newly released results from the Phase III ADAURA trial reveal that osimertinib yielded a 5.5-year median disease-free survival in the post-surgical …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Chicago Medicine oncologists Wendy Stock, MD, and Peter H. O'Donnell, MD, have been chosen to lead committees of the Alli…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging has designated the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotheranostics at Duke Health as …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The breast cancer program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has earned reaccreditation …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit has…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Michelle Ozbun, PhD, and her team published a research article earlier this year in which they describe how protamine sulfate blocks HPV in…

Siteman Cancer Center A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests a simple blood test—administered before CAR T cell treatment is initiated— may identify wh…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A recently published study showed better survival rates for patients who indicated they ate more unsaturated fats before they were diagnosed with cancer …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have published results that show encouraging therapeutic options for patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma after fir…