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Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The National Academy of Sciences has elected Mary Beckerle, PhD, Huntsman Cancer Institute CEO and distinguished professor of biology and oncologi…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Sameer Patel, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center and…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Arizona residents, including underserved and underrepresented populations, will have better access to cutting-edge cancer therapies as the University of…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new study has found a substantial rise nationwide in new diagnoses at age 65 for lung, breast, colon, and prostate cancer, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A study led by The University of Kansas Cancer Center, with AlloVir, Certara, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, compares the economic burden, h…

Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Mark Juckett, MD, was appointed medical director of the Masonic Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office for the Cellular, Gene and Immunotherapy Ini…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Lynne E. Maquat, PhD, the founding director of the Center for RNA Biology at the University of Rochester, has been honored with the 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have received a grant award to lead a collaborative team of New York institutions in an initiative that addresses disparities …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center A $10 million grant from the AbbVie Foundation will support scientific and educational activities at the University of Chicago Me…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new University of Florida study finds that male patients who have a single general physician were more likely to receive a prostate cancer screenin…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The immunotherapy agent pembrolizumab can provide clinical benefit to some patients with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors were found to have a h…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new paper, researchers at UC San Francisco and the Whitehead Institute describe a CRISPR-based tool called "CRISPRoff," which allows s…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study from UK Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that Artemisia annua, a plant that has been traditionally used for its anti-malaria components, shows promise…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH, has been named associate director for Population Sciences Research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He replaces William Blot, PhD, w…

Siteman Cancer Center Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, has been awarded the George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians in recognition of his contributions to the field of gut microbiome…

This is a bill to prove 5% real funding increases to National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Department of Defense (DoD) medical research, and Department of Veterans A…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun utilizing a new program called MyCareCompass that is designed to support patients with necessary information about thei…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified a protein that operates in tandem with a specific genetic mutation to spur lung cancer growth and …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD, will join the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh as chief of the Division of Hemato…

Cancer Center at Illinois Several Cancer Center at Illinois members are joining forces with scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Georgetown University on an expansive project targeting improved…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, New York University, and University Hospitals have been awarded a five-year, $3 million National Cancer Insti…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Xiongbin Lu, PhD, has been named co-program leader of the Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics (EDT) research progra…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A study by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine suggests the rate of cancer recurrence or survival may be no…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Two studies led by Baylor College of Medicine shed new light on the unanswered question of why estrogen receptor-positive…

Moffitt Cancer Center Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the new vice president of digital. This newly created position will be instrumental in Moffitt’s …

AACI President Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD, is resigning from Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. She will step down as AACI president and begin her new role as chi…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of c…

Siteman Cancer Center Justin M. Sacks, MD, has been named director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Sacks wil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Agnes Witkiewicz, MD, as director of cancer genetics and genomics. She will also hold the John &…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center congratulates the Cleveland Clinic's Nima Sharifi, MD, on his selection as the 2021 recipient of the American Association for Ca…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Early results from a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy trial led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center foun…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using a field of mathematics designed mainly to study how digital and other forms of information are measured, stored, and…

University of Virginia Cancer Center New research from the UVA Cancer Center’s Jogender Tushir-Singh, PhD, could rescue once-promising immunotherapies for treating solid cancer tumors, such as…

University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD, has been selected to lead the Cancer Therapy Discovery and Development program at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Can…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute physician assistant Scott Balderson, PA-C, has begun his term as president of the national Association of Physician Assist…

Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA, has been appointed director of The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine. He joi…

Representatives Brian Higgins (D-NY) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) will be honored with the Cancer Research Ally Award at the 2021 AACI/AACR Hill Day, which will be held virtually on June 9. Both congress…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine A Wilmot Cancer Institute team is launching a two-year research project to develop different types of text messages for smoking cessation, and then study t…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at City of Hope have developed a novel, noninvasive liquid biopsy test for detecting lymph node metastasis in individuals with high-risk T1 …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Analyzing tumors from more than 2,600 patients and 38 cancer types, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Neeraj Agarwal, MD, a physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, has been appointed senior director of clinical research innovation, …

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, FASCO, has been appointed as chief of the division of hematology and oncology in the UF College of Medicine. Dr. Ma…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute A $2.7 million U.S. Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Academy Leadership Award has been awarded to Nita Maihle, PhD. She shares the award with Doug…

Mary "Dicey" Jackson Scroggins, MA, will deliver the keynote presentation on Wednesday, July 14 during the 13th Annual AACI CRI Meeting. Scroggins, a 24-year ovarian cancer survivor and recent acute …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study at OSUCCC - James will evaluate how COVID-19 impacts the immune system of ca…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center used machine learning techniques to detect mutational signatures in …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Cardiovascular disease-related mortality among prostate cancer patients is significantly higher among Black patients compared with white patient…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Funded by a two-year, $2.08 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a new collaboration between two western New York cancer research leaders …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center People with ovarian cancer frequently receive aggressive end-of-life care despite industry guidelines that emphasize quality of life for those with a…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey deputy director, Eileen White, PhD, has been elected to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for Cancer…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The American Association for Cancer Research has named Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, MD, PhD, as co-winner of the Molecular Cancer Research Michael B. Ka…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia suffer remarkably fewer relapses and are far more likely to survi…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer starts with mutations in a cell’s DNA, but new UC San Francisco research shows that the endurance of a tumor relies on its ability t…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new article, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers demonstrate how an important defect in STING gene expression in melanoma cells contributes to their evasion from immun…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New data published by researchers at OSUCCC – James suggests that an oral drug curre…

Stanford Cancer Institute To advance studies of cell migration, Stanford researchers have worked to develop and test new types of material that closely imitate the real tissue that surrounds c…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Suyun Huang, PhD, recently discovered how cholesterol becomes dysregulated in brain cancer cells and showed that the …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons, launched in 2016 by then-Vice President Joseph Biden and hosted at the Univ…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences conducted more than 100,000 digital health visits following the COVID-19 outbreak, seeing its high…

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021 AACI Cancer Health Equity Award. The award was created to recognize an individual or group who demonstrates exceptional leadership in promoting health …

AACI invites you to promote your cancer center by purchasing an ad in the 13th Annual AACI CRI Meeting program. The digital program book offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your center while …

Cancer Center at Illinois In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu, PhD, received a $250,000 CCIL Seed Grant to support his research on the characteriza…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, and Peter Kuhn, PhD, director of the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer at the USC Michelson Center for Conve…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Ken Batai, PhD, a health disparities researcher at the UArizona Cancer Center, has documented an increased risk of mortality among Arizona’s Hispanic Am…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine has been awarded more than $17.5 million in grants by the Cancer Prevention & Research Ins…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Leland W. Chung, PhD, who served as director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer for 12 years, died May 10 of kidney cancer. He was 80. …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The New Jersey State Cancer Registry, under the direction of the State Department of Health in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, h…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine The University of Rochester has been selected by the American Society of Clinical Oncology as one of five host schools to participate in the inaugural Onco…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at UVA Cancer Center have unveiled new insights into how androgens act on our cells – and the discovery could boost efforts to develop better t…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool th…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center $4 million in cont…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A recent study by Cleveland Clinic researchers suggests that interactions between the breast microbiome and local immune responses may influence breast cancer de…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A research team co-led by Andrew Godwin, PhD, deputy director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, and Yong Zeng, PhD, has been awarded a $3.1 mill…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Jessica Jin, RN, BSN, BMTCN, a clinical nurse III, is the 2021 Blood and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse of the Year. The annual award by the …

Stony Brook Cancer Center The Stony Brook University Cancer Center has received funding from the New York State budget to help it attain National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Cente…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation has given $1.8 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Myeloma Center in the Winth…

Siteman Cancer Center Heavy consumption of sugary drinks during adolescence and adulthood might increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer in women under age 50, according to a new stud…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A large group of Duke Cancer Institute investigators led by researcher Gayathri Devi, PhD, has been awarded a three-year $1.6 million U.S.…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Two recent studies conducted at VCU Massey Cancer Center find strong evidence that prolactin acts as a major contributor to breast cancer development and…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine For women with breast cancer, frailty is linked to inflammation levels in the blood, according to a Wilmot Cancer Institute investigation. Higher inflammat…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center After reduced smoking rates, drugs that target signature alterations in tumor cells are the main reason that the death rate has dropped for people diagnosed with …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center congratulates its chief pharmacy officer, Lijian “Leo” Cai, PharmD, who will receive the 2021 Donald E. Francke Meda…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Two experimental drug approaches that target vulnerabilities in cancer cell metabolism may extend survival and enhance the…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center While new inhibitors are demonstrating some success against a type of KRAS, new paths are needed. A study from the University of Michigan Rogel Cance…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have developed a new technology to overcome the inefficiencies and high err…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A personalized cancer vaccine developed with the help of a Mount Sinai computational platform raised no safety concerns and showed potential benefit i…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the appointment of Jordan Anaokar, MD, as the new site director for radiology. She specializes in over a dozen differen…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Pearl McElfish, PhD, MBA, has been named associate director of community outreach and engagement at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute a…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center An international team of scientists from City of Hope and the Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University have developed an experimental…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new article, researchers from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medicine in New York found …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Deputy Director Eileen White, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She is among 120 members electe…

Caryn Lerman, PhD, is the new president of AACI. Dr. Lerman is the director of University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles and the associate dean for can…

Siteman Cancer Center Non-Hispanic African American women with triple-negative breast cancer do not fare as well as non-Hispanic white women with this type of breast cancer, according to new r…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Researchers at Jefferson have found that a commonly used risk prediction model does not accurately identify high-risk Black patients who could g…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the promotion of Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD, MS, to chief diversity and equity officer for faculty. The…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A long noncoding RNA whose function was previously unknown turns out to play an important role in promoting the body’s immune response against cancer…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford researchers have discovered a new kind of biomolecule that could play a significant role in the biology of all living things. The novel biomolecule, dubbed g…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Breast cancer patients, particularly those with metastatic disease, take bisphosphonates to prevent and treat bone lesions. A new analysis by scientists at Fred H…

Stanford Cancer Institute Eight Stanford Medicine scientists are among a group of pediatric cancer researchers being honored with the 2021 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer…