Molecular Shape Shifters
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
Peng Mao, PhD, and his team have discovered an intricate series of events that cells use to repair DNA, finding that in transcription-coupl…
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Axing the ACA Means Young Adults With Cancer Lose Coverage
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
A new study by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has quantified the impact of repealing the 201…
Grant to Fund COVID-19 Research in Patients With Hematologic Cancers
Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Research Project Cooperative Agreement grant to Yale Cancer Center. The two-year, $1.4 million U01 a…
Virus-Mimicking Drug Helps Immune System Target Cunning Cancer Cells
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a drug that activates the body’s natural defenses by behaving like a virus …
Tool Developed to Better Predict Treatment Course for Lung Cancer Patients
Moffitt Cancer Center
For patients with non-small cell lung cancer, two major treatment strategies have emerged: tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, choosing …
Immunotherapy Trial in Advanced Bladder and Other Urinary Tract Cancers Shows Results
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
In a large randomized clinical trial, researchers evaluated the immunotherapy drug avelumab for patients with advanced urothelial cancer. And the findings of the …
Chief Academic Officer, Senior Director of Basic Science Named
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Brad Cairns, PhD, has accepted an appointment as chief academic officer at Huntsman Cancer Institute. In addition, Alana Welm, PhD, has acce…
$1.6 Million Awarded for Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science Program
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has received a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to support the Rutgers Youth Enjoy…
Cone Receives 2020APSHO Award for Excellence
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
The Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO) presented the third annual Mary Pazdur Award for Excellence in Advanced Pr…
CARNKT Cells Offer a Promising Novel Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have genetically modified h…
Biomarker Found That Can Appear Before Stomach Cancer Develops
The University of Arizona Cancer Center
A promising new biomarker that appears in patients before stomach cancer develops may help with early detection of the disease and improve patient respo…
Gerson to Serve as Interim Dean for Additional Year
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Interim Dean Stanton L. Gerson, MD, has agreed to extend his term for another year, to June 30, 2022. Dr. Ge…
Study: Personalized Cancer Therapy Improves Outcomes in Advanced Disease
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health were more likely to survive or experience a longer period without t…
Research Finds Anticancer Drugs Also Effective Against Epstein-Barr Virus-Related Cancers
University of Florida Health Cancer Center
University of Florida Health researchers Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, MD, PhD, and Michael McIntosh, PhD, and their collaborators have published new rese…
Dasgupta Earns NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Subhamoy Dasgupta, PhD, has received a five-year, $2.52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support investigations into how communi…
Tetzlaff Named President of Association of Physician Assistants in Oncology
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health
Colleen Tetzlaff, MHS, PA-C, an advanced practice clinician at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently named president of the Association of Physician Assistants…
Study Shows Increased Failure-Free Survival in Prostate Cancer
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
A study from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has the potential to change how patients whose prostate cancer recurs after prostatectomy…
Experimental Drug Being Developed to Thwart Pancreatic Cancer, Other KRAS-Driven Tumors
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
In his previous role at Moffitt Cancer Center, Said Sebti, PhD, and colleagues discovered FGTI-2734, a drug that overcomes a major hurdle in halting the …
Park to Lead Hematology and Oncology
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
After serving as interim director since January 1, Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, has been named director of the division of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt Univer…
NCI Funds Investigation of Relationships Between HIV, Lung Cancer in East Africa
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Researchers with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have secured $4 million in funding fr…
$7 Million Grant Renewal Supports Cancer Drug Research Based on Natural Compounds
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
OSUCCC – James and the Ohio State College of Pharmacy have been awarded a five-year,…
Investment Fund Launched to Support Promising Investigational Cancer Therapies
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The Focus Fund GP, LLC, in partnership with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has launched Cancer Focus Fund, LP, an oncology…
Cancer Compound Leads to Licensing Deal
Cancer Center at Illinois
Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement betwe…
Study Finds Cancer Mutations Accumulate in Distinct Regions Based on Structure of Genome, Mutational Causes
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
A new study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has discovered that mutations found in cancers do not accumulate randomly, …
Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer May Be Gauged by Accumulated DNA Damage
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Risk for melanoma can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to A. Hunter Shain, PhD, who led a new study to…
New Discovery Could Help Improve Cancer Vaccines
Siteman Cancer Center
A broad collaboration of scientists co-led by Robert Schreiber, PhD, has identified five features of neoantigens that optimize the ability to trigger T cells to attack ca…
$7.2 Million Grant for Cancer Prevention Trials
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
With a new $7.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Rogel Cancer Center researchers and their national collaborators will test whether …
Ribas Elected to National Academy of Medicine
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, has been named to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized for defining the mechanistic basis of how patients respond to or…
Mullett Begins Term as Commission on Cancer Chair
UK Markey Cancer Center
Cardiothoracic surgeon Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, has started a two-year term as chair of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. He serves as m…
McDonnell to Receive Komen Brinker Award
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
The national breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen® has announced that Donald McDonnell, PhD, is one of two breast cancer researchers named …
Permanent Director Selected for WVU Cancer Institute
Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, MD, associate chair of surgery for cancer services and a native West Virginian, has been named the permanent director of the WVU Cancer Institute after having served in the pos…
Mesa Elevated to Executive Director
Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson
Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been named executive director of the Mays Cancer Center. The appointment broadens Dr. Mesa's scope of responsi…
Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology Program Appointed
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
Deirdre J. Cohen, MD, MS, has joined Mount Sinai Health System as director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program and medical director of the Cancer…
Dinan Named Co-Leader of Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
Michaela A. Dinan, PhD, has been appointed co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center beginning January 1…
Breast Cancer and Radiation Researcher Joins Mays
Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson
David Gius, MD, PhD, a breast cancer and radiation researcher, has joined the Mays Cancer Center. He was recruited from the Robert H. Lu…
Researchers Seek to End Unexpected Bills for Screening Colonoscopies
University of Virginia Cancer Center
Nearly 1 in 8 commercially insured patients nationwide who underwent an elective colonoscopy between 2012 and 2017 performed by an in-network provider rece…
Mount Sinai Part of New NCI Serological Sciences Network
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will receive more than $7.3 million from the National Cancer Institute as part of its new…
Cedars-Sinai to Study Unequal Impact of COVID-19 on Minorities
Cedars-Sinai Cancer
Cedars-Sinai has been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to study the diversity and determinants of the immune-inflammatory response t…
$8.5 Million Gift to Establish Breast Cancer Research Institute
The University of Arizona Cancer Center
Ginny L. Clements has given $8.5 million to the UArizona Cancer Center to strengthen the center's breast cancer patient care and research programs. She …
Grant Renewal Will Support Cancer Retrovirus Research
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and OSUCC – James have been…
$11 Million Investment to Expand IU-Purdue Bioinformatics Collaboration
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Walther Cancer Foundation will invest $11 million to advance collaborative cancer research at Indiana University and Pu…
Director Appointed for University of Illinois Cancer Center
Jan Kitajewski, PhD, has been appointed director of the University of Illinois (UI) Cancer Center effective November 13, 2020. He has served as interim director since December 2019 and joined UI Canc…
Team Receives $11.2 Million to Leverage the Microbiome Against GVHD
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
A team of researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center received an $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to …
Evers Elected to National Academy of Medicine
UK Markey Cancer Center
B. Mark Evers, MD, FACS, director of UK Markey Cancer Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Evers was elected for his expertise on intestinal horm…
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Names New Director
Indiana University School of Medicine has announced the hiring of Kelvin Lee, MD, to lead the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, bolstered by a $15 million fund est…
Researchers Identify Driver of Further Metastasis in BRAF Inhibitor Resistant Melanoma
Moffitt Cancer Center
Targeted therapy with BRAF-MEK inhibitors is effective against advanced melanoma that cannot be surgically removed or has spread to other areas of the body. However, many…
Investigating Disparities in Eye Cancer Treatment
Stanford Cancer Institute
There are currently two main ways of treating ocular melanoma: radiation therapy or removal of the eye. Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, MD, and Darius Moshfeghi, MD, are invest…
Deep Look at Immune Cells in Patient Tumors Reveals Insights on Timing for Treatment Combinations
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research from a team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center explains how radiation helps boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer in co…
Combination Immunotherapy Benefits Subset of Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Results from a Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center suggest that a combination of ipilimumab…
Cancer Discovery Reveals Key Process in Tumor Formation
University of Virginia Cancer Center
A discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine may open the door to an entirely new approach to treating cancer: by disrupting a vital cond…
Prominent Researchers, Physicians Join Faculty
Cedars-Sinai Cancer
Cedars-Sinai Cancer is continuing to expand its clinical and investigative research staff with the addition of several new faculty scientists who bring a breadth of experti…
Department of Medicine Chair Named
Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine
Ruth O’Regan, MD, chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the next chair of medicine at th…
Clinical Trial Will Examine Short- and Long-Term Outcomes for Patients With COVID-19 and Cancer
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
A nationwide clinical trial funded by the National Cancer Institute and now open at VCU Massey Cancer Center will examine the short- and long-term outcom…
Rubbery Properties Help RNA Nanoparticles Target Tumors Efficiently and Quickly Leave Body
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
A new study by researchers at OSUCCC – James shows that RNA nanoparticles have elast…
Associate Chief Medical Officer for Radiation Oncology Appointed
Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
James B. Yu, MD, MHS, has been promoted to associate chief Medical officer for radiation oncology for Smilow Cancer Hospital and Smilow Cancer Hospi…
Martin Awarded New Endowed Professorship
University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
Breast cancer researcher Stuart S. Martin, PhD, has been installed as the inaugural Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Pro…
Genetic Testing Cost Effective for Newly Diagnosed GIST
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
Researchers at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health have reported that genetic testing is cost-effective and beneficial for newly diagnosed patients wi…
Braithwaite Appointed Associate Director for Population Sciences
University of Florida Health Cancer Center
Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, has been appointed as associate director for population sciences at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, starting…
5 For the Fight Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
5 For the Fight, a global movement inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer, has announced the inaugural recipients of the 5 For …
To Reduce Colorectal Cancer Disparities Among African Americans, More Intervention Research is Needed
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Of any racial group, African-American men have the lowest five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer. A major contributing factor is low …
Smoking Associated With Worse Outcomes for Bladder Cancer After Surgery
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Patients treated for bladder cancer with a surgery known as radical cystectomy have worse outcomes if they are smokers, according to a systematic review …
NCORP Clinical Trial Accrual Goals Exceeded
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s status as a community site of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) has be…
Cancer Cells Take Over Blood Vessels to Spread
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
In laboratory studies, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University researchers observed a key step in …
Population Health Expert Joins Cancer Center
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD, MEd, has been named associate dean for population health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She also joins The Universit…
Chief of Gamma Knife Service Named
Siteman Cancer Center
Jiayi Huang, MD, has been named chief of the central nervous system/Gamma Knife service at Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center. He had been…
Farma Recognized as Master Surgeon Educator
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health
Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Jeffrey Farma, MD, FACS, was recently admitted to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. He is chief o…
Black People More Likely to Die From Colorectal Cancer Spreading to Liver
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Analyzing data for about 16,500 advanced colorectal cancer patients, City of Hope researchers found that Black people are more likely than other ethnic…
New Leadership Roles to Focus on Quality and Safety
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC) has announced two leadership roles focused on quality and safety in cancer care. Mark…
Lim to Lead Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford Cancer Institute
Michael Lim, MD, has been appointed chair of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery. He joined Stanford from the Johns Hopkins Univer…
Schwarz Elected Officer of Radiation Research Society
Siteman Cancer Center
Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, a Washington University professor of radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected vice president of the Radiation Research Society. …
Study Educates Oncologists on LGBTQ+ Health Concerns
Moffitt Cancer Center
Moffitt Cancer Center is launching a nationwide study to help educate oncologists and address health care disparities among LGBTQ+ patients. The study’s findings will inf…
$1.1 Million Grant Awarded to Develop Metabolomics Data Analysis Tools
UK Markey Cancer Center
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1,163,869 grant to the University of Kentucky to develop state-of-the-art metabolomics data analysis tools th…
Grant to Fund Gene Imaging Research
Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine
The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant to fund 3D gene imaging research at Yale Cancer Center. Th…
$1.9 Million Grant Funds DNA Damage Research
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
A $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Studies will allow Justin Leung, Ph.D., at the University of Arkansas for Medi…
$2.9 Million Grant Will Look at Impact of HPV on Head and Neck Cancer
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center have received a $2.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to look at how HPV behaves in patients…
Study Finds Savings in Blue Cross, Blue Shield Value-Based Primary Care Programs
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Overall health care costs decreased for patients at clinics participating in Arkansas Blue Cross and Shield value-based primary care programs, acc…
Fighting Breast Cancer With Nanotech, Immunotherapy
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Efstathios "Stathis” Karathanasis, PhD and William Schiemann, PhD are leading a team of researchers from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke Universi…
Study Highlights Need for Genetic Testing for Patients With Lung Cancer
UK Markey Cancer Center
A study led by researchers at UK Markey Cancer Center highlighted differences in patient diagnosis and treatment in those with non-small cell lung cancer across the sta…
Shifting Liver Cancer Cells Away From Migratory State Could Reduce Their Drug Resistance
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Whether a liver cancer cell is primed to grow or move affects its ability to resist cancer drugs, according to new work from researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer…
Expert in Early-Phase Cancer Research Tapped to Head Clinical Investigation Team
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Having dedicated his career to developing better treatments for cancer, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP, has be…
$3.1 Million Grant Supports Exploration of Immune Response to Cancer Mutations
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
With the aid of a $3.1 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey leaders Eileen White, PhD, Edmund L…
Women Surgeons Earn Their Cut of NIH Funding and Then Some
University of Virginia Cancer Center
Women are underrepresented in the field of academic surgery, but women surgeons are earning a disproportionate share of research grants from the National I…
VICC Leading First Global Study of MDS/MPN Overlap Syndrome
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Overlap syndromes are distinct blood cancers that have features of both myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). The most common …
Patel Appointed as Caspar Wistar Fellow
Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute
The Wistar Institute has appointed Ami Patel, PhD, as a Caspar Wistar Fellow in the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center. Her research…
$3.7 Million Awarded to Address Genetic Testing Among Families
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
A $3.7 million grant, part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will support a clinical trial designed to test a personalized family genetic…
Innova Therapeutics Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation From FDA for Osteosarcoma Treatment
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Innova Therapeutics Inc., rare pediatric disease designation for IVT-8086 f…
Free Genome Sequencing Now Available to All UCSF Patients
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
UC San Francisco scientists have launched a precision medicine initiative to offer free voluntary whole genome sequencing to all UCSF Healt…
$5.7 Million Awarded to Study Chemo-Induced Hearing Loss, Toxicities
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lois B. Travis, MD, ScD, at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a fi…
Ohio State to Study Impact of COVID-19 in First Responders With $10 Million Grant
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
Researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and The Ohio State Univ…
NIH Funds Research on Differences in Glioblastoma Between Males, Females
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
A Case Comprehensive Cancer Center-led team has secured $10.4 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute to explo…
Effort to Combat Melanoma Gets $13 Million Boost
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCLA researchers have received a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find new ways to overcome melanoma resistance to some of t…
City of Hope, Chimeric to Develop CAR T Cell Therapy
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
City of Hope has licensed intellectual property relating to its pioneering chlorotoxin chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy to Chimeric Therapeutic…
Two Million Americans Buy Prescription Drugs Outside the Country
University of Florida Health Cancer Center
Buying prescription drugs from other countries is one way some Americans have coped with rising drug prices. A new University of Florida study finds …
Tisch Gets Second Consecutive NCI Designation
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai has been awarded $13 million as part of the renewal of its National Cancer Institute cancer center designati…
Winn Part of AACR Congressional Briefing on Cancer Disparities
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
As a member of the steering committee that contributed to the American Association of Cancer Research’s inaugural "Cancer Disparities Progress Report," V…
New Initiative Aims to Put Postponed Cancer Screenings ‘Back on the Books’
Prevent Cancer Foundation
To help encourage routine cancer screenings, especially as patients have postponed or canceled them during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prevent Cancer Foundation has la…
KRAS Inhibitor Sotorasib Appears Safe, Achieves Durable Clinical Benefit in Early Trial
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
In a Phase I clinical trial for patients with advanced solid cancers marked by KRAS G12C mutations, the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib (AMG 510…
Gruber to Head Center for Precision Medicine
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cancer geneticist Stephen Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, has joined City of Hope as the director of its newly founded Center for Precision Medicine. He will lea…
$111 Million NIH Grant Awarded to Prevent and Treat HIV-Associated Cancers
Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
For 25 years, the AIDS Malignancy Consortium has led national and international efforts to prevent and treat of HIV-related cancers. Now, Montef…
Osborne Steps Down as Director
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine
After 15 years in the role, C. Kent Osborne, MD, has stepped down as director of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Ce…