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Kitajewski Named Interim Director

Kitajewski Named Interim Director 

University of Illinois Cancer Center Jan Kitajewski, PhD, director for basic research at the University of Illinois Cancer Center, is serving as the cancer center's interim director. Dr. Kitaj…
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Kleer Honored for Impact on Breast Cancer

Kleer Honored for Impact on Breast Cancer 

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Celina Kleer, MD, has been honored by the American Association for Cancer Research for her work in generating key insights into the development of aggressiv…
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Director of Patient Access Named

Director of Patient Access Named 

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Jennifer Kennedy-Stovall has been named director of patient access at Duke Cancer Institute. She previously served as director of patient …
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Ubel Named to National Academy of Medicine

Ubel Named to National Academy of Medicine 

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Peter Ubel, MD, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ubel, a member of the Duke Cancer Institute, is a behaviora…
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RNA Helps Virus Create ā€‹ā€˜Zombie’ Cells, Cause Cancer 

WVU Cancer Institute IvanĀ Martinez, PhD, is exploring how HPV produces and modifies tiny molecules of RNA—called "non-coding RNAs"—in infected human cells. Using cell lines from cervical and h…
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Protein Decoy Stymies Lung Cancer Growth in Mice 

Stanford Cancer Institute Scientists at Stanford and UC San Francisco have developed an experimental drug that targets a currently untreatable type of lung cancer responsible for generating ro…
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ACS NCI Honor Ruggero

ACS, NCI Honor Ruggero 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Davide Ruggero, PhD, has accomplished the rare feat of receiving two of the most competitive awards available to cancer scientists. In September, …
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Holmen Receives Melanoma Research Award

Holmen Receives Melanoma Research Award 

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah TheĀ Society for Melanoma Research recently presentedĀ Sheri Holmen, PhD, with the Estela Medrano Memorial Award. Dr. Holmen is a melanoma researcher…
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Clues to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy Revealed

Clues to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy Revealed 

Siteman Cancer Center A new study by researchers atĀ Washington University School of Medicine in St. LouisĀ indicates a way for cancer immunotherapy to spur a more robust immune response. Such k…
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New Chief Nursing Officer Named

New Chief Nursing Officer Named 

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health welcome Carolyn Hayes, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, as the new chief nursing officer. She will oversee …
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Prostate Cancer Program Awarded $8.7 Million 

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The prostate cancer program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health has been awarded an $8.7 million Specialized Program of Res…
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WVU Names Interim Director

WVU Names Interim Director 

WVU Cancer Institute Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, MD, has been named interim director of the WVU Cancer Institute, effective January 2020. As the director of clinical services for the Mary Babb Rand…
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New Research Funding Totals Nearly $22 Million 

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park received more than $21.8 million in recent competitive grants and contracts to launch new investigations or continue promising research ef…
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Sharpless Returns as NCI Director

Sharpless Returns as NCI Director 

The Association of American Cancer Institutes welcomes back Norman E. Sharpless, MD, as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Sharpless served for seven months as acting commissioner o…
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Weiss Receives Coley Award

Weiss Receives Coley Award 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur "Art" Weiss, MD, PhD, received a 2019 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology/Basic Immunology from…
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Study Suggests New Metabolic Target for Liver Cancer 

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa Disrupting a metabolic pathway in the liver in a way that creates a more ā€œcancer-likeā€ metabolism actually reduces tumor formation in a m…
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Zafar Named Director of Healthcare Innovation

Zafar Named Director of Healthcare Innovation 

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Yousuf Zafar, MD, associate professor of medicine and public policy, has been appointed director of healthcare innovation at Duke Cancer I…
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Ferrell Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Ferrell Elected to National Academy of Medicine 

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN, FPCN, MA, director and professor of the Division of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope, was elected to become a member o…
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Bleicher Receives Breast Cancer Award

Bleicher Receives Breast Cancer Award 

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Richard J. Bleicher, MD, FACS, has been awarded the 2020 Jamie Brooke Lieberman Remembrance Award from Susan G. Komen® Philadelphia for his work in the breast c…
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New Organelle Found That Helps Prevent Cancer 

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new organelle inside our cells that helps to prevent cancer by ensuri…
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Failed Alzheimer’s Drug Boosts CAR T‑cell Therapy 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center AĀ new studyĀ describes how gamma secretase inhibitors, or GSIs, can reverse a disappearing act that multiple myeloma pulls on the immune system. That ability to va…
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Breast Cancer Screening 2 D or 3 D

Breast Cancer Screening: 2‑D or 3‑D?

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the landmark international Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), which…
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Radiation Oncology Chair Named 

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been named the Brandmeyer Chair and professor of radiation oncology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, clinical se…
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Gutmann Wins Neuro Oncology Prize

Gutmann Wins Neuro-Oncology Prize 

Siteman Cancer Center Neurologist David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, has received the Abhijit Guha Award from the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the Section on Tumors of the American Association of Neurologi…
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Grant Strengthens Breast Cancer Research Efforts 

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Breast cancer researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have secured a fourth round of continuous Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) fundin…
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Researcher Honored for Work Advancing Immunotherapy

Researcher Honored for Work Advancing Immunotherapy 

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The Cancer Research Institute has awarded Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, director of the tumor immunology program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, wit…
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Sleckman to Lead O Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sleckman to Lead O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center 

Barry Paul Sleckman, MD, PhD, a world-renowned researcher who focuses on understanding how DNA double strand breaks are generated and repaired, has been named director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Can…
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Pingree Named Chief Strategy Officer

Pingree Named Chief Strategy Officer 

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute at theĀ University of Utah has announced the appointment ofĀ Scott Pingree, MBA, MPA,Ā to serve as the organization’s…
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Surgeons Take on New Roles 

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Shannon Orr, MD, has been named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology, a new division in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Departmen…
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Yang Appointed Hematology Division Director

Yang Appointed Hematology Division Director 

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Yiping Yang, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Division of Hematology at the O…
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Thoracic Surgeon Joins Karmanos Staff

Thoracic Surgeon Joins Karmanos Staff 

Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announces thatĀ David I. Sternberg, MD, thoracic surgeon, has joined its medical team as of August 1.…
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ASHG Awards City of Hope Genetics Leaders 

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD, and Kathleen Blazer, EDD, MS, LCGC, as the 2019 recipients of theĀ Arno Motulsk…
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