Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Scott M. Welford, PhD, is the new Tumor Biology Research Program co-leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Trudy G. Oliver, PhD, has joined the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. She was recruited from Huntsman Cancer Institute throu…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has tapped three accomplished health care executives to oversee key clinical and operational areas. Ronald And…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, will join Emory School of Medicine and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University as chair of the Department of Radiatio…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center more than $2.1 million to support cancer research and reduce ind…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute When Pierre de Delva, MD, director of thoracic oncology and program director of thoracic surgery residency, flew to Chicago to accept a Lung Cancer Hero awa…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center A set of interacting molecules in immune cells of the gut is responsible for preventing the inflammation seen in inflammator…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health In a recent study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center demonstrated how cancer cells can survive in the body even when faced with a lack of sufficient…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University It may soon be possible to identify Group 4 medulloblastomas from more aggressive Group 3 tumors. Research based on a litt…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have engineered immune cells to control two majo…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer James Turkson, PhD, professor in the Division of Medical Oncology in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, is uniquely positioned for a new role developed at Cedars-S…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Daniel Chang, MD, was named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Michigan Medicine. Dr. Chang will be the third chair in the department’s…

University of Virginia Cancer Center The University of Virginia School of Medicine has recruited Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in virology and RNA bio…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Gerard Silvestri, MD, and Marvella Ford, PhD, are co-leaders of a $1.2 million grant from The Duke Endowment, with ambitious goals …

This fall, AACI welcomed new members to its Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) and Government Relations (GR) steering committees. The new members formally assumed their duties during the 2022 AACI/CC…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new therapy pulls a mutated version of the protein KRAS to the surface of cancer cells, where the drug-KRAS complex acts as an "eat me" f…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health have appointed Matthew Matasar, MD, MS, as chief of blood disorders. In this role, he will …

AACI’s first in-person annual meeting since 2019 attracted over 400 participants, including leaders from 91 cancer centers, for three-and-a-half days of networking, presentations, and panel discussio…

UK Markey Cancer Center In a recent UK Markey Cancer Center clinical trial, patients with advanced cancer experienced improved outcomes when their treatments were directed by a molecular tumor…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Recent work by a Keck School of Medicine of USC-led team has demonstrated that circadian clock proteins, which help coordinate changes in the body’s func…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Ashish Deshmukh, PhD, is the new co-leader of the cancer control program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and an associate professor …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UCSFʻs Luke Gilbert, PhD, was among the recipients of Phase 1 funding for the Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells program, manage…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s third law says, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Indika Rajapakse, P…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine New research from Yale Cancer Center reveals a higher risk of cancer mortality in incarcerated adults, as well as among those diagnosed with cancer …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Three Huntsman Cancer Institute investigators received grants from the V Foundation for cancer research. Doug Grossman, MD, PhD, earned a gr…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Sunny R. K. Singh, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute as director of t…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center After nearly three decades of service-focused work in the fields of education, government, education, and nursing, Ellen Grant, PhD, LCSW-R, is returni…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, is team leader on a grant award from Stand Up To Cancer to investigate therapeutic options for lung cancer characterized by K…

On Monday, September 12, AACI Executive Director Jennifer W. Pegher attended an event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, where President Joe Biden shared progress updat…

AACI commends the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on the release of its Annual Plan & Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 and its request for $9.988 billion in funding – a significant incre…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center First Lady Jill Biden, PhD, met with top UC San Francisco cancer leaders to hear about UCSF’s breast cancer research and progress on the Na…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The Bezos family has committed $710.5 million over the next decade to support Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center's efforts to dramatically accelerate medical breakthro…

Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD, has been named the next director of the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Cancer Center, effective December 12. Dr. Ueno is currently the executive director of the Inflammatory Breas…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer The Convergent Science Virtual Cancer Center, a program designed to train the next generation of cancer researchers, held its first in-person workshop for its first class o…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Over the last decade, major professional societies have recommended that clinicians decrease the use of systemic anti-cancer therapies at the end-of…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center An international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center received a collaborative grant from the National Cancer In…

Siteman Cancer Center John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is being recognized by the American Italian Cancer Fou…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A Veterans Health Administration project that provided resources for lung cancer screening programs increased the number of veterans screened, according to a ne…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine The National Cancer Institute has awarded more than $10.3 million to continue translational lymphoma research at the Cent…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center An enzyme called Fic, whose biochemical role was discovered at UT Southwestern more than a dozen years ago, appears to play …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Michele Coté, PhD, director of the Susan…

University of Colorado Cancer Center As lead investigator or sub-investigator on numerous clinical trials at the University of Colorado Cancer Center Jessica McDermott, MD, has been instrument…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The National Cancer Institute recently awarded more than $7.9 million for a new Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network (ROBIN) center at Wi…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and World Health Organization have announced a formal agreement to establish a new internati…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center is now a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN) as pa…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Ruth Etzioni, PhD, has received a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award, which comes with around $7.4 million in…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center In Michigan, 40 percent of callers to the state’s Tobacco Quitline are menthol users. Now, a new partnership between the University of Michigan Rogel…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Finding valuable therapeutic interventions for prostate cancer has long guided the research of the lab of Feng Yang, PhD,…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Yuan Yuan, MD, PhD, a breast medical oncologist and physician scientist who specializes in triple-negative breast cancer and breast cancer immunotherapy, has joined Cedars-…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) welcomes transdisciplinary population health researcher Terry Hyslop, PhD, as co-leader of the Cancer Risk an…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The James P. Allison Institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced the establishment of its internal advisory c…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Scientists from The Tisch Cancer Institute have uncovered a mechanism by which certain breast cancer cells regulate their own metastases, fuel dissemi…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered that the organization of different types of immune cells within pa…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center A clinical trial now kicking off at Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center will test whether scalp cooling can protect Black and Latina women with te…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center was recently awarded a grant for $6 million over the course of five years to develop a new Cancer Prevention-Interception Targete…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jaye Gardiner, PhD, has received the Merton Bernfield Memorial Award, established to honor outstanding postdocs or graduate students, from the American Society…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is proud to break ground on a new Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) building. The project, which include…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Health Care’s Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy program performed its 500th Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy infusion i…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford Cancer Institute members Matthew Frank, MD, PhD, and David Miklos, MD, PhD, have received FDA breakthrough therapy designation on a trial using CAR22 to trea…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) welcomes Wade Christopher, MD, who will be part of the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute's…

AACI has partnered with more than 50 cancer organizations to issue a call to action urging individuals, providers, and insurers to increase access to and utilization of low-dose computed tomography (…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new national survey commissioned by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The combination of an immunotherapy, PD-1 blockade, and biologic therapy, IL-2 therapy, generate higher quality effector CD8+ T cells which resembl…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone A new study, led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, has generated data…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer. UK Markey is one of around 60 centers in the nation a…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding a cancer-promoting protein and how it causes tumor growth. The findings are an im…

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Researchers at UT Southwestern and the University of Miami have discovered that a molecule—estrogen-related receptor gamma, …

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A team of University of Arizona researchers have developed a drug compound that appears to stop cancer cell growth in triple-negative breast cancer. The…

UK Markey Cancer Center A UK Markey Cancer Center researcher’s team developed new chemical compounds that show promise as a potential anticancer therapy to treat aggressive tumors. The new gol…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Jan Lowery, PhD, MPH, who started her career as a researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, has returned as assistant director for disseminat…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The addition of four new oncologists—Sonia T. Orcutt, MD; Cesar Giancarlo Gentille Sanchez, MD; Santanu Samanta, MD; and Anusha Jillella, MD—will …

The AACI Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host "A Transdisciplinary 'Tweetorial' With Seasoned Colleagues" at 5:00 pm eastern time on Tuesday, November 15. The webinar will provid…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health has announced the appointment of physician and researcher Oren Cahlon, MD, as senior vice president and deputy chief …

On Monday, October 24, AACI Executive Director Jennifer W. Pegher visited the White House for the announcement of the American Cancer Society’s launch of the National Breast Cancer Roundtable and the…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute announces the appointment of two researchers as holders of endowed chairs at the University of Utah. Another colle…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Dina M. Jones, PhD, MPH, has received a grant to study disparities in smoking cessation among African American menthol cigarette smokers. The proj…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS, has been formally named president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center following a period of interim leadership. In addition, D…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced that Eyal Gottlieb, PhD, has been named the institution’s vice president for r…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The Radiation Research Society has bestowed its highest honor—the Failla Memorial Lecture Award—on Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, executive directo…

Joseph A. Califano III, MD, has been named director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. He succeeds Scott Lippman, MD, who announced in November 2021 that he would be stepping down as dir…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The new Lung Nodule Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center has launched the Geriatric Oncology Center of Excellence to address the needs of a growing patien…

AACI hosted its first Leadership Diversity and Development Initiative (LDDI) Workshop on November 8-9 in Chicago. Dr. Caryn Lerman, AACI president and director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer …

Stanford Cancer Institute Crystal Mackall, MD, and lead author Katie Freitas, a Stanford Immunology PhD candidate and Mackall lab member, have published an article demonstrating that the Media…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke University Provost Sally Kornbluth, PhD, has been appointed president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), beginning i…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center’s efforts to increase minority accrual to cancer treatment trials got a boost from the National Cancer Institute’s Connecting Underrepresented Popul…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD, has been named the chair of the department of cell biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Steidl assumes hi…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Antonio Iavarone, MD, has made a decades-long commitment to finding better treatments for glioblastoma and other aggressive brain tum…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Cribriform prostate cancer is an aggressive subtype of the disease characterized by its histology, but little is known about its molecular pathways. Research fr…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A dietary change could be a key to enhancing colon cancer treatment, a study from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center finds. One of the mo…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a novel treatment approach to an aggressive type of pediatric brain can…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A targeted therapy for children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma was shown to significantly reduce relapse rates when tested in a large multicenter …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed and used by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center research…

Moffitt Cancer Center Jarett Rieger, Esq., MBA, has been named Moffitt Cancer Center’s new vice president and chief innovation officer. He will continue to oversee Moffitt’s Office of Innovati…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center has announced the appointment of Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, as its inaugural associate director for cancer workfor…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health will help Winship Cancer Institute scientists investigat…

On November 15, 2022, AACI's Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) hosted a moderated discussion with colleagues in medical, radiation, and surgical oncology about social media and how it c…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Physician scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have published a r…