Siteman Cancer Center Research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a possible treatment strategy for a rare bone marrow failure syndrome called poikilod…

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa A worldwide shortage of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) means that many patients with a common and serious type of bladder cancer have lim…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center are addressing the low colorectal c…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center research team has created what team members believe to be among the first small molecules designed t…

Stony Brook Cancer Center For the past few decades, Iwao Ojima, PhD, and colleagues have been working to develop next-generation anti-cancer agents. One of these agents—a second-generation tax…

This year, AACI is partnering with AACR to offer scholarships of up to $1,000 to enable patient advocates to attend Hill Day on May 18 and share their perspectives during congressional meetings. Nomi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new study of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma suggests that two specific cancer cell mutations may work together to help hide tumors from t…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center While past studies have identified nearly 270 genetic variants linked to prostate cancer risk, researchers have yet to find a clear explanation for the d…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Investigators at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have described a previous…

Moffitt Cancer Center A new therapy for triple-negative breast cancer being investigated at Moffitt Cancer Center involves oncolytic viruses, which infect and kill the cancer cells. In a new a…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Paul Swiecicki, MD, is the inaugural associate medical director for the Oncology Clinical Trials Support Unit (O-CTSU) at the Rogel Cancer Center. Cl…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Peter Maslak, MD, has been named vice chair of clinical affairs and technical director of the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory at Roswell Park Compre…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Daniel Nussbaum, MD, is one of 12 surgeons selected for the National Cancer Institute 2023 Early-Stage Surgeon Scientist Program. This pilot pro…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah TALAPRO-2, a study led by Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO, demonstrated that using TALZENNA, in combination with XTANDI, may reduce the risk of di…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health John Karanicolas, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded a $1 mill…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute’s Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science has selected Ramzi Salloum, PhD, to chair its Learning Healthcare Systems as N…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent UK Markey Cancer Center study suggests a new radiopharmaceutical compound may be a viable treatment option for patients with advanced cervical cancer. The stud…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Travis Osterman, DO, MS, director of cancer clinical informatics at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been appointed to a new role as associate vice presiden…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center has named three new research leaders. Damon Vidrine, Dr.PH, MS, has been named chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior; Gina DeNicol…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Hao Gao, PhD, associate professor and director of physics research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is a rec…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University The breast tumors of Asian, Black, and white women have very different cellular, microbial, and genomic features that coul…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Why do some people with a genetic mutation associated with leukemia remain healthy, while others with the same mutation develop the blood cancer? In a ne…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center revealed a type of RNA, previously considered to be "junk," that may help…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute researchers in the Allen Lab have identified a set of biomarkers that could help distinguish whether cysts on the pa…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Kathrin Plath, PhD, and Hanna Mikkola, MD, have been named director and co-director of the Epigenomics, RNA & Gene Regulation Research Program. Wil…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center As part of a longstanding partnership, the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center has receive…

AACI invites you to promote your cancer center by purchasing an ad in the 15th Annual AACI CRI Meeting program book. Your cancer center’s program ad may highlight a conference or a new initiative, or…

Siteman Cancer Center Researchers have identified a way to treat the area surrounding breast tumors that have spread to bone so that such tumors become vulnerable to attack by the body’s immun…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center If cancer exhibits a weakness, exploit it before taking the target away. That’s what researchers did in a Phase II, randomized clinical trial showing t…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Avinash Sahu, PhD, and his team leveraged artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Big Data to create a novel way to discover multi-f…

University of Virginia Cancer Center The American Cancer Society is backing the UVA Cancer Center’s efforts to nurture promising ideas from early career scientists that could lead to important…

Stanford Cancer Institute Lipika Goyal, MD, was honored as the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Researcher of the Year, which recognizes investigators who have benefited from an ACS extramural grant …

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center New findings from a clinical trial by researchers at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes shows that immunotherapy can activate tumor-…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Thomas Curran, MD, is one of only 12 physicians across the nation to have been selected to participate in the National Cancer Insti…

Stanford Cancer Institute Cancer-associated genes called oncogenes are well known to stimulate cell growth and division, causing tumors to balloon and spread. But now, researchers at the Stanf…

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has announced the release of the National Cancer Plan, a long-term, ambitious framework to end cancer as we know it. The plan was developed to coordinate a nationa…

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The University of Kansas Cancer Center Leading up to the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Roy Jensen, MD, KU Cancer Center director and AACI immediate pas…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has been named the newest member institution of the National Comprehensi…

City of Hope has announced the appointment of John D. Carpten, PhD, as director of the National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, director of Beckman Research Institute of City…

Registration is now open for the 2023 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, which will take place October 1-3 at the Salamander Washington, DC. This three-day event convenes AACI cancer center members with natio…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center The Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM), has announced the appointment of Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, as associate dean for …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey With a nearly $3.2 million National Cancer Institute grant recently awarded, investigators from the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Georgetown…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A Phase II clinical trial led by Winship Cancer Institute shows a combination of two drugs was well tolerated and benefitted 91 percent of particip…

Stanford Cancer Institute The Biden-Harris Administration announced the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. Stanford Cancer Institute's Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD, is the founding director of Mount Sinai’s new Center for Advancement of Blood Cancer Therapies (CABCT), co-sponsored by Mo…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason African American men experience more aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age compared with European American men, new research …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, and Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, have been named to lead Mount Sinai’s new Tisch Cancer Hospital, which is under development an…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UCSF Health's surgical oncology team leads in using an innovative chemotherapy infusion pump, called hepatic artery infusion (HAI) pump, fo…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University The number of immune cells in and around kidney tumors, the amount of dead cancer tissue, and mutations to a tumor suppres…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Individuals with autism and intellectual or developmental disabilities face damaging consequences due to numerous barriers to care across health…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Data from a national clinical trial shows that a striking 89 percent of patients wit…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A large retrospective study conducted by physician researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reports benefits of chemotherapy for many …

The AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Steering Committee, with the assistance of peer reviewers from CRI committees, have selected three abstracts from 118 submissions for formal presentation a…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Eric Tandberg has guided himself through years of cancer treatments, including three blood stem cell transplants at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. In al…

Stanford Cancer Institute Michael Fischbach, PhD, is the senior author of a study that harnessed the skin’s immune response to bacteria to create an immunotherapy—delivered by swab—that treats…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Leslie A. Crews, PhD, has been appointed as the new co-leader of the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center's Hematologic Malignancies Program, joining current co-…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Hong-yu Li, PhD, a researcher with the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, recently recei…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Patients with asthma are almost one-and-a-half times more likely to develop cancer than those who don’t have the respiratory disease, a new Universit…

WVU Cancer Institute West Virginia University researcher Raymond Raylman, PhD, has developed a new technology to improve the treatment of head and neck cancers. The scanner that he and his tea…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated that adding metastasis-directed radiation therapy to intermitt…

Siteman Cancer Center Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announces several leadership changes including Daniel C. Link, M…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Three faculty members and five postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including James Goldenring, MD, PhD, received research honors last week f…

Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) will be honored with the Cancer Research Ally Award during the 2023 AACI/AACR Hill Day, which will be held in person on Th…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A monoclonal antibody known as enoblituzumab is safe in men with aggressive prostate cancer and may induce clinical activi…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Priyanka Sharma, MD, and Prateek Sharma, MD, of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, were formally invested with professorships on March 21, 2023. Endowed p…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Research led by UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that responses to PD-1 checkpoint blockade in patients with advanced melanoma depended o…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Gynecologic surgeons with OSUCCC - James are leading an international clinical trial…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Sanjay Maraboyina, MD, has been named clinical director of radiation oncology for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Baptist H…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Erin Longstreth-Papsun, RN, MSN, OCN, NEA-BC, clinical director of Ambulatory Satellite Clinics and Radiation Oncology Nursing at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was …

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Using artificial intelligence tools to make radiologists’ work more precise and efficient is the goal as University of Florida Health researchers emb…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun offering cone-beam computed tomography-based adaptive radiation therapy, a technique that allows a patient’s radiation …

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University An international group of researchers led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Winship Cancer Institute, and the New Approaches to Neuroblastoma…

Siteman Cancer Center Jumping genes, also called transposable elements, are short sections of DNA that have been incorporated randomly into the human genome and implicated in the development o…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Using a self-built inverted microscope complete with laser optical tweezers to capture DNA, Yale Cancer Center and University of California Davis re…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent UK Markey Cancer Center study reveals that having depression before or after a breast cancer diagnosis was associated with a lower likelihood of survival. …