Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami A landmark gift of $126 million to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of M…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Understanding how cells respond to stress may provide new building blocks for designing future cancer and aging treatments, and University of Arizona He…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center What is the connection between COVID-19 and cancer? Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, has focused his entire career on cancer, identifying a protein that pla…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Medical Center has announced a trial exploring a drug intended to fight the cytokine storm common in COVID-19. The trial involve…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been named the coordinating center for vaccine clinical trials of the COVID-19 Prevention Network, funded by the Nation…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has formed a partnership with plastic injection molding company The Rodon Group to develop nasal and oral collection swabs to tes…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Nancy Davis, MD, has been named senior medical director for VICC Cancer Care Network and Strategy, a new leadership position at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center earned the Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for its outstanding effort to improve…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park's Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, has been named to the COVID-19 Prevention Network Native Expert Panel, formed by the National Institute of Alle…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the combination of dabrafenib, a BRAF inhibitor, …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Jefferson researchers developing a cancer vaccine to prevent recurrences of gastric, pancreatic, esophageal and colon cancers have added a compo…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have described a novel acidic niche within lymph nodes that plays an integral role in regulating T cell activation. Their findings demon…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Tracy Onega, PhD, has been appointed senior director of population sciences at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and professor of population s…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Mammograms help to catch breast cancer in its early stages, but Dario Marchetti, PhD, thinks they can’t find it soon enough. He and his tea…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new draft recommendation by a national panel of health care experts would nearly double the number of Americans eligible for lung cancer screenings — and should res…

Siteman Cancer Center The effects of a standard immunotherapy drug can be enhanced by blocking the protein TREM2, resulting in complete elimination of tumors, according to a study in mice by W…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Patients who develop cytomegalovirus infections after allogeneic stem cell transplantation may be able to develop an immunity against the virus, streng…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute According to a study led by Dario C. Altieri, MD, president and CEO of The Wistar Institute, breast cancer cells starved for oxyge…

Stanford Cancer Institute Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD, has been appointed division chief of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine in the Division of Pediatric…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Mutations in the p53 gene are found in more than half of all cancers, yet it has proven to be very difficult to target the gene with therapeutic drugs. V…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Robotic surgery for patients with early stage, oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer is associated with improved health outcomes, including better long-term survival, accordin…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: to become a member of the Pediatric Brain …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have developed new models to study molecular characteristics of tumors of …

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A recent article highlights disparities in immune system functions between male and female glioblastoma patients that may underlie some of the observed sex dif…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has announced that Krystle Kuhs, PhD, MPH, will serve as co-leader of its Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. She will co-lead the p…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Jae Jung, PhD, has been appointed chair of Lerner Research Institute's Department of Cancer Biology where he will lead the department’s work in understanding t…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey A Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey study shows environmental surface testing at the center’s radiation oncology department, during the height of th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Rosemary, a fragrant herb, may contain properties that prevent breast cancer from progressing. Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center, led…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope physicians, working with scientists at Translational Genomics Research Institute, have found that greater gut microbial diversity in patie…

GW Cancer Center Genetic modifier HDAC6 was found to control tumor growth and halt metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer in vivo, according to a new study by investigators at GW Cancer C…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Biochemist Charles Brenner, PhD, has joined City of Hope to lead the nation’s first research department focused on the intersection between cancer and …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a $2.97 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a nanote…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, was elected to the National Academy of Science in recognition of her transformational contributions to the fields of myeloid cell bio…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Two types of detectable antibody responses in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) tell very different stories and may indicate ways to enhance public health…

GW Cancer Center Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH, will serve as the director of the Cancer Preventorium at GW Cancer Center and as professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Scienc…

Siteman Cancer Center Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Hong Chen, PhD, are developing a new way to diagnose brain tumors without any incisions. The method uses ultraso…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Laura Goff, MD, MSCI, has been named the executive medical director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Cancer Patient Care Center. She will oversee the canc…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Researchers at Ohio State will study the health effects of e-cigarettes and nicotine…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Many modern cancer drugs target a specific genetic mutation that is driving a particular cancer’s runaway growth and division, but this strategy hasn…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center The laboratory of Paula D. Bos, PhD, has joined forces with 18 other international laboratories to develop the first collaborative platform to streamline…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Bert W. O’Malley, Jr., MD, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive officer of the Universi…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Keck Medicine of USC has named oncologist and cancer researcher Steven Grossman, MD, PhD, as USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center’s cancer physician-in…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Patients are now able to donate no-longer-needed oral cancer therapy drugs for the b…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A $10.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, awarded to Alan Tackett, PhD, will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Scie…

Moffitt Cancer Center Tumor immunologist Patrick Hwu, MD, has been appointed the new president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center. He joins Moffitt from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cance…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky was recently awarded a Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant to study translational chemical biology from the National Institutes o…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, received the 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in an…

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Ruben Mesa, MD, FACP, has been elected an officer on the national board of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Dr. Mesa is director of the Ma…

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University At Karmanos Cancer Institute, clinical and scientific researchers are examining factors that have led to the African-American population shoul…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers were part of a national team that published a paper identifying best practices for protecting vulnerable cancer patie…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Stem cell transplant patients are highly immune-compromised, so they are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19. That’s why, in early March…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Research from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health found significant decreases nationwide in the number of patients being seen fo…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists have identified an oncogene responsible for glioblastoma. Researchers say the oncogene is essential to the survival of the cancer cells — withou…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The addition of 12 oncologists will expand services and increase access for patients at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the Univer…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Newly released data on treatment outcomes of people with cancer diagnosed with COVID-19 reveal a racial disparity in access to Remdesivir, an antiviral drug tha…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A University of Michigan-led study is shedding new light on the way pancreatic cancer cells turn nearby connective tissue cells into co-conspirators …

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences have developed—and are continuing to improve—a handheld device to bring the next generation of …

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Researchers led by James Bibb, PhD, suggest using a broader lens of post-translational modification analysis to id…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Blocking a newly identified "immune memory checkpoint" in immune cells could improve immunotherapy and help prevent cancers from recurring, according to new findings…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Christopher Hoimes, DO, PhD, has joined the genitourinary (GU) oncology program at Duke Cancer Institute where he will serve as clinical i…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky identifies a novel function of the enzyme spermine synthase (SMS) to facilitate colorectal cancer growth. SMS p…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A study led by Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, and his colleagues, found that many new colorectal cancer diagnoses are occurring in countie…

Cancer Center at Illinois Current prostate cancer diagnostics, such as the serum test and physical exam, work well for detection, but don’t accurately identify the stage or grade of the diseas…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The intestinal microbiome might offer a window into whether cancer patients can bene…

Stanford Cancer Institute An elite population of cancer cells marshal at the leading edges of a growing skin tumor to guide its metastasis and help it evade the body’s immune system, researche…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Ronald S. Boris, MD, and cancer physician colleagues at Indiana University are working with scientists at Purdue University…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CAR T immunotherapy has been used to treat Hodgkin lymphoma with remarkable success for the first time, …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators report they have uncovered a new mechanism by which invasive breast cance…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of "synthetic lethality," exploiting cancer-specific genet…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Chengyu Liang, MD, PhD, has been appointed as professor in the Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program of The Wistar Institut…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, has been appointed director of the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity for Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Two UPMC Hillman Cancer Center radiation oncologists have been designated Fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (FASTRO), the world’s largest society for …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Two new studies led by Renuka Iyer, MD, section chief for gastrointestinal oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, highlight possible new…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Chuck Wiggins, PhD, director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry, was recently honored by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registrie…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A new study sheds light on proteins in particles called extracellular vesicles, which are released by tumor cells into the bloodstream and promote the spread of cancer. The…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new study, investigators have determined that a chemotherapy drug called Azacytidine can cause certain ca…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, UC San Francisco, and Northwestern Univers…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by a team of investigators from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center indicates the expansion of Medicaid led to earlier detection of cancer in indi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD, has been named associate director for precision oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center. His lab has made fundamental insights i…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Ge Jin, PhD, and Bingcheng Wang, PhD, were recently awarded a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to explore why those livin…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The Radiation Oncology Residency Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (A…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Experts at City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are using one of the world’s most comprehensive genomic analysis tools…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A $5 million gift from the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation will create and support the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Cancer …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Sanofi have announced a five-year strategic collaboration to accelerate the development …

University of Illinois Cancer Center Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has enacted a health care package that includes a proposal requiring the state’s Medicaid program to cover routine care co…

Cancer Center at Illinois In a new study, researchers report that they have dramatically broadened the potential targets of CAR T therapy — their engineered T-cells attack a variety of solid-t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Debra Friedman, MD, MS, is expanding her leadership role in improving cancer outcomes both within and beyond the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center catchment area.…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The American Society of Clinical Oncology honored Hyman B. Muss, MD, FASCO, with the 2020 Allen S. Lichter Vis…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have launched a strategic collaboration uniting the nation’s first ind…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center at University of Haifa and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have launched a collaboration that will c…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute IntraOp Medical Corporation has announced delivery of its pre-clinical high dose rat…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Faculty members at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research are expanding the cur…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers showed that patients who already used opioids, sedatives, or antidepressants prior to colorectal surgery experience s…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Black patients with esophageal cancer are at a higher risk of death compared to white patients. Although many reasons have been suggested, a new…

Moffitt Cancer Center Issam El Naqa, PhD, joins Moffitt Cancer Center as the founding chair of its new Machine Learning Department. The new department is focused on accelerating scientific dis…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The radiation oncology residency program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council fo…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been elected radiation oncology co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network Prostate Cancer Ta…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Dana Dolinoy, PhD, received a $6.9 million R35 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The award is granted from the NIEH…

Moffitt Cancer Center Dave Summitt, chief information security officer at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been selected for the Federal Communication Commission’s newly formed federal advisory committee,…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Renal cancer specialist Robert A. Figlin, MD, has been named deputy director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer. The Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology will oversee a…