Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center’s Frederick Wilson, MD, PhD, has won a 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Dr. Wilson’s…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, in partnership with New Brunswick Development Corporation have announced the development o…

Moffitt Cancer Center Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy has shown pronounced activity in certain cancers, and two CAR T therapies, Kymriah® and Yescarta®, have received approval…

GW Cancer Center A research team led by Yanfen Hu, PhD, a member of the GW Cancer Center, is studying the role of the tumor suppressor BRCA1 in the homologous recombination pathway of DNA doub…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center scientists have discovered that the loss of a protein called DBC1 in breast cancer cells leads to the dysregulation of normal an…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Inflammation plays an instrumental role in tumor development, affecting the tumor microenvironment, mediating immune responses, and influencing tumor gro…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A personalized prognosis for patients diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer was the goal of a new study by Katherine Varley, PhD, a r…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A novel gene therapy clinical trial at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is showing promising results. A $2.7…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Steven Dubinett, MD, a researcher in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been honored by the American Lung Association for his work on the treat…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Results from a new study led by Cleveland Clinic show that an artificial intelligence framework can provide individualized radiation dose delivery based on data …

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a hyperactive cell signal …

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has been awarded a five-year, $9.7 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant fr…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center One of Roswell Park’s most distinguished researchers has been recognized again for his contributions to advance the fight against ovarian cancer. Ovarian Canc…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered how an aggressive form of prostate cancer called double-negat…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Drug discovery, design and development expert Saïd M. Sebti, PhD, has been named associate director for basic research and the Lacy Family Chair in Cance…

Stanford Cancer Institute For decades, breast cancer was believed to be a disease that was purely genetic in origin. However, recent science is upending this notion by showing that the surroun…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The statistics are grim: for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), more than 60 percent will relapse within two years of a bone marrow transplant.…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using advanced technology, scientists at Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, Mayo Clinic, and UC San Francisco, have discovered an autoimmune dise…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute announces the appointment of Rahul Shinde, DVM, PhD, as the first Caspar Wistar Fellow. Dr. Shinde’s research…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has named Lawrence Boise, PhD, as its new associate director for education and training. Dr. Boise is …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, supported by a $19.2 million National Institutes of Health grant, will lead the largest clinical trial of its k…

The Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia has selected Kim Nguyen Chi, MD, as vice president and chief medical officer of BC Cancer. An internationally recognized expert in prostat…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered a cellular pathway tied to cancer that may be beneficial in reducing s…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, has received designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Sylvester joins a highl…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center For oncologists in the beginning of their career, scientific conferences present an opportunity for them to network, share their research, gain new k…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The OSUCCC – James has announced formation of the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Onc…

American Society for Radiation Oncology The National Cancer Institute Radiation Research Program has released a draft update of its guidelines for the use of proton radiation therapy in cooper…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced that a team of Indiana University School of Medicine researchers is joining a …

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, director of the Brain Metastasis Research Program at Cleveland Clinic, is helping lead a clinical trial of a new glioblastoma vaccine. Sur…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Alan Tackett, PhD, a cancer researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has received a five-year, $1.75 million grant fr…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned a 2019 HAP Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP). The award recognize…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified key biological pathways that regulate the spread of tumor cells to vital organs. These findings ma…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Pre-surgical treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab resulted in an overall major pathologic response rate of 33 percent of treated patients …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned CEO Cancer Gold Standard re-accreditation for satisfying the latest comprehensive requirements of the Gold Standard. Founded …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A new program led by The University of Kansas Cancer Center seeks to improve community oncology providers’ knowledge of genetic testing in breast cancer …

Stanford Cancer Institute In 2012, Teresa Purzner, MD, PhD, and her husband, Jamie Purzner, MD, both neurosurgery residents, traded their scrubs for lab coats in an effort to understand, at th…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A new study outlines findings from the largest-ever prospective genomic analysis of advanced prostate cancer tumors. Using comprehensive gen…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A large, randomized immunotherapy clinical trial continues to show improved overall survival and progression-free survival in advanced lung cancer pa…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A combination of nanatinostat (VRx-3996), an oral histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, and the oral antiviral valganciclovir appears to be well…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Michelle Hudspeth, MD, is the new medical director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Hollings Cancer Center at …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $2.2 million, five-year grant to help OS…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Shannon J. McCall, MD, has received a grant of over $3.4 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support the Duke BioRepositor…

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University The standard of care for women with stage III/IVA endometrial cancer following surgery has been chemotherapy and radiatio…

Stanford Cancer Institute Up to 80 percent of metastatic colorectal cancers are likely to have spread to distant locations in the body before the original tumor has exceeded the size of a popp…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million National Ca…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A combination of elevated symptoms of depression along with modifications in a gene responsible for dopamine activity, important to the brain’s …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine have discovered a new way to identify potentially high-risk pediatric neuroblas…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Using a new approach that combines data from human tumors grown in mice with data from The Cancer Genome Atlas, a team led by University of Michigan …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke University Hospital’s NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Program recently earned a three-year accreditation rating, with commendatio…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A common genetic deficiency summons macrophages that nurture glioblastoma instead of attacking it, researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center re…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Forty years ago, a team of scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published the first unequivocal report in humans that immune cells called T cells …

University of Virginia Cancer Center An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body, new research from the UVA Cance…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center On a questionnaire aimed at assessing how well community oncologists understand "molecular profiling" results from tumor specimens, 69 percent o…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center found that identifying a metastatic colorectal cancer patient’s Consensus Molecular Subtype (CM…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences research team led by Vladimir Zharov, PhD, DSc, has demonstrated the ability to detect and kill circ…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new colorectal cancer vaccine showed positive results in the Phase I clinical trial to demonstrate that the approach is safe. The patients tre…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Li-Wen Huang, MD, received the 2019 Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Endowed Young Investigator Award…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Michael Kuettel, MD, MBA, PhD, FASTRO, professor and Barbara C. & George H. Hyde Chair in Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park, has been appointed to the Ad…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco has opened a pioneering cancer center to provide adult patients with genetic counseling, immunotherapy, molecular profilin…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a novel study of cancer genetics using fallopian tube tissue from 15 women, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Can…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Treatment with the drug olaparib significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death from metastatic pancreatic cancer…

Siteman Cancer Center A multicenter team led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has taken a big step toward identifying pancreatic cysts that are likely …

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center were awarded $5.4 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to investigate the potential for novel therapi…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has affirmed its support for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, renewing its status as one of 50 Comprehensi…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has revealed plans to invest more than $1 billion to develop and support a new comprehensive cancer campus at FivePoint Gateway in Orange …

GW Cancer Center The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center has established the Dr. Cyrus Katzen Family Director of the GW Cancer Center, thanks to a gift from GW alumnus and former B…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Physician-scientist Donald J. Johann Jr., MD, has been awarded a $1.47 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration to continue a clinical …

University of Virginia Cancer Center University of Virginia Health System is joining a coalition of health care organizations to improve vaccination rates in western Virginia for human papillo…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have invented a computational technique called CIBERSORTx that can analyze the RNA of individual cells taken from w…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital announce a five-year grant awarded by The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation to establish The DeLuca Cente…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK HealthCare recently opened the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network’s (ORIEN) Total Cancer Care Protocol to pediatric patients, becoming the first cancer p…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center applauds the Texas Legislature for passing Senate Bill 21, which raises the minimum legal sa…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center and Beijing Friendship Hospital in China have initiated a collaborative agreement that will provide both institutions with added …

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A novel imaging technique that uses a synthesized form of scorpion venom to light up brain tumors has shown promise in a clinical trial. The imaging system enables neurosur…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Recently presented clinical trial results showed that a commercial blood test was as effective as tissue biopsies at detecting multiple genetic mutations in lung …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center has appointed Jason Luke, MD, FACP, to direct the newly established Cancer Immunotherapeutics Center. A medical oncologist and clinical in…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center On a night when Chuck Pagano returned to Indianapolis, Colts owner Jim Irsay pledged $1 million to cancer research in his f…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The ability to daily monitor a bone marrow or stem cell transplant patient once they’re home is paying dividends, say members of the University of Mis…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center A new initiative at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center will offer cancer patients the tools they need to quit smoking. Led by Emrullah Yil…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Cancer, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified 34 genes th…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded $2.1 million to Duke Cancer Institute researchers to study plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated imm…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO, Mary Beckerle, PhD, and HCI’s Senior Director of Pre-Clinical Translation, Martin McMahon, PhD, have been appointed …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The members of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have elected Karen E. Knudsen, PhD, executive vice president of Oncology Services an…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Poor air quality days significantly increase the risk of hospitalizations for respiratory issues in young survivors of cancer, according to …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Michael Hall, MD, MS, has been named chair of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center. An associate professor in the department, D…

WVU Cancer Institute The WVU Cancer Institute welcomes Mike Ridinger, RN, MBA, as assistant director of finance and administration and the administrator of Hematology/Oncology. Ridinger has mo…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Checkpoint inhibitor drugs that stimulate the immune system have become a growing success story in the treatment of some c…

Stanford Cancer Institute Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to a study by research…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new method for lifting the genetic "fingerprints" of tiny fragments of…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Since the term "metastasis" was coined nearly 200 years ago, thousands of scientific papers have been published on the subject. A comprehensive literatur…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A new study from the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center provides the first evidence that oxidative stress acts directly on telomeres to speed up cellular aging. The key was …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has named David Jaffray, PhD, as its first chief technology and digital officer. Jaffray wil…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s Clinical Health Psychology fellowship program, which focuses on onco-psychology, has earned national accreditati…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a study to determine how financial assistance for costs associated with clinical trial participation …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Partial breast irradiation produces similar long-term survival rates and risk for re…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute New research from The Wistar Institute sheds light on the function of the ARID1A protein, encoded by a gene that is among the most…

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University An overactive protein complex that helps drive the development of leukemia may explain why many therapies for the cancer …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Elizabeth Bouchard, PhD, has been promoted to associate director for community outreach and engagement at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. In …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Katerina Politi, PhD, and Don Nguyen, PhD, members of the Signal Transduction Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, have received a five-year, nea…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed light on how cancers hijack the body’s natural wound-healing response to grow and sp…