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Acting as a network for research leaders, Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) promotes the efficient operation of clinical research facilities at AACI cancer centers.

AACI meetings bring cancer centers together to discover solutions to common challenges. AACI also shares event announcements as a benefit to members.

This three-day meeting offers AACI members an opportunity to network with cancer center colleagues, national cancer research and advocacy groups, industry, and government health agencies to develop s…

The CRI annual meeting is designed to improve the clinical research process; understand the global impact of conducting clinical research in the United States, Canada, and abroad; discuss trends in c…

Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Children's Research Hospital New research by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital clarifies the genomic landscape of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. The…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Experts at University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have conducted the first study evaluating the effectiveness of a targeted drug for patie…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Human Genome Sequencing Center i…

AACI extends its gratitude to the cancer center colleagues who attended the 2024 AACI Leadership Diversity and Development Workshop, March 12-13. The workshop drew nearly 100 attendees from 85 cancer…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC used a new statistical method to pinpoint the genetic underpinnings of the link between red and proce…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Monitoring levels of DNA shed by tumors and circulating in the bloodstream could help doctors accurately assess how gastro…

Catchment Area Research and Data Science (CARDS) will host a webinar titled "Communicating Catchment Area Data Using R" at 1:00 pm eastern time on Wednesday, April 17. The webinar will be moderated b…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Six UF Health Cancer Center researchers have received funding from the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund for research projects that promote cancer innov…

Stony Brook Cancer Center A team of Stony Brook University researchers developed a new method for image-guided radionuclide therapy that uses a two-step process with specially-modified antibod…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The Champions and Friends of Dunwoody Country Club have given $1 million in new gifts to Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University to endow a ne…

On Tuesday, March 19, AACI held its annual spring Government Relations (GR) Forum at 101 Constitution in Washington, DC. The meeting gave AACI government relations representatives and sustaining memb…

In January 2024, the Biden Cancer Moonshot delivered six codes to report navigation services for payment. The Cancer Moonshot team recently hosted a Q&A during which several resources were shared…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A novel treatment for polycythemia vera, a potentially fatal blood cancer, demonstrated the ability to control overproduction of red blood cells, the …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Some oropharynx cancer patients may qualify for fewer radiation treatments, according to a new study from experts at the University of Michigan Healt…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent UK Markey Cancer Center study uncovers a critical pathway involved in immune evasion by breast cancer cells. The study addresses a crucial gap in the understan…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center The results of a recent study co-led by a University of Arizona Cancer Center researcher suggest that novel therapeutic molecules known as proteolysis t…

Stanford Cancer Institute A Stanford Medicine study identifies an easily measured biophysical property that can identify Type 2 diabetics at increased risk for liver cancer who don’t meet curr…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study has revealed a key genetic variant contributing towards the increased risk, as well as details about the biological basis of acute lymphoblas…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new cancer treatment that uses a person’s own immune cells has been approved by th…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health While sociodemographic, clinical, and pathological factors may affect racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes of patients with locally advanced rectal …

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida researchers have found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 performed better than the student average on seven of nine graduate-level exams in t…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing two changes to the current research data request and access policies. CMS has issued a request for information (RFI) from stakehol…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Fariba Behbod, PharmD, PhD, has received a $930,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study a new targeted therapy option for people diagnosed…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health has earned a National Cancer Institute (NCI) "Comprehensive" Cancer Center designation, the highest recognition awarded by the NCI. This recogni…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center has again been designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the hig…

Registration is now open for the 2024 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, which will take place October 20-22 at the Loews Chicago Downtown Hotel. Preceding the meeting, AACI will host the Diversity, Equity, a…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Neli Ulrich, PhD, MS, chief scientific officer and executive director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the Unive…

The AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Steering Committee, with the assistance of peer reviewers from CRI committees and volunteers, have selected three abstracts from 154 submissions for formal…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Jonathan D. Licht, MD, director of the UF Health Cancer Center, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AA…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina MUSC Hollings Cancer Center has received the renewal of a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and achieved its…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, has been named associate director for Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) a…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jefferson The Association of Cancer Center Administrators welcomed over 400 attendees to its inaugural meeting in Philadelphia, March 17-19. The co…

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA) will be honored with the Cancer Research Ally Award before the 2024 AACI/AACR Hill Day, which will be held on Thursday, May 16. The aw…

AACI invites you to promote your cancer center or company by purchasing an ad in the 16th Annual AACI CRI Meeting digital program book. Your program ad may highlight a conference or a new initiative,…

WVU Cancer Institute The cancer care available to West Virginians took a dramatic positive turn with a gift of $50 million that the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust has made to the West Vir…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Wendell Lim, PhD, earned a $30 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop a cellular toolki…

University of Virginia Cancer Center A second-generation melanoma vaccine developed at UVA Cancer Center improves long-term survival for melanoma patients compared with the first-generation va…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky has broken ground on the new UK Cancer and Advanced Ambulatory Building. The 550,000-square-foot facility will become the new home of the UK …

AACI's Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host a webinar titled "On the Frontlines of Cancer Care: Exploring Urgent Care Models in Oncology" at 1:00 pm eastern time on Thursday, May…

Siteman Cancer Center Three Washington University physician-scientists at Siteman Cancer Center—Patricia I. Dickson, MD, Dineo Khabele, MD, and Gregory D. Longmore, MD—have been elected to the Assoc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health William Kaelin Jr., MD, physician, scientist, and Nobel laureate, was recognized at Fox Chase Cancer Center with the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the center…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center will expand its lung cancer research through a $20…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Markey Cancer Center report that the efficacy of doxorubicin, a widely used che…

UK Markey Cancer Center Jin-Ming Yang, PhD, was recently awarded a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to support research focused on improving the effectiveness of …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new clinic at OSUCCC – James and Pelotonia Immuno-Oncology Institute aims to help …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center is welcoming patients to its newly opened office in Voorhees, New Jersey. The site is the first that Fox Chase has opened in the …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Doctors say that a concerning rise in non-smoking lung cancer cases is likely linked…

Stanford Cancer Institute Melissa Bondy, PhD, received the American Society of Preventive Oncology Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award. The award is extended annually to an outst…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Prateek Sharma, MD, FASGE, has been elected president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for 2024-2025. Dr. Sharma is a member of The Unive…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center By combining data from MRI scans and clinical tests, Chuan Zhou, PhD, will develop a decision support tool to tailor treatment for individual patient…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A new study examines the prevalence of mental health challenges faced by parents caring for children diagnosed with cancer. The research, which ana…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A multidisciplinary team of investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center was awarded a Translational Melanoma Research Alliance Tea…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Bin Zheng, PhD, a specialist in targeted therapies and immunotherapy, has joined Cedars-Sinai Cancer as director of Melanoma Research in the Department of Biomedical Scienc…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Two University of Virginia Cancer Center experts in gynecologic cancer have outlined simple steps to improve cancer prevention for millions of rural and me…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Adding a personalized anti-tumor vaccine to standard immunotherapy is safe and about twice as likely to shrink cancer as s…

Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Resistance to chemotherapy is typically associated with poor outcomes for patients with cancer. However, scientists at St. Jud…

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-Northwell Health affiliation agreement, first signed in 2015, has been updated with the aim to bring cutting-edge …

Stanford Cancer Institute Candice Thompson, MD, was selected to participate in the NCI Early-stage Surgeon Scientist Program (ESSP), which is designed to train surgeon-scientists and retain them in …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Stephanie Blank, MD, has been appointed vice chair of NRG Oncology’s Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) Committee. NRG Oncology is a NCI National Cli…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A novel treatment for leukemias and lymphomas that arise from immune system T cells, developed by investigators at the Joh…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new urine-based test that addresses a major problem in prostate cancer…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have found that a specific subtype of a microbe commonly found in the mouth is able to travel to the gut and grow wit…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Recent research findings from Winship Cancer Institute provide a molecular basis for exploring the synergy of HSP90 inhibitors with radiotherapy an…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Pravin Kaumaya, PhD, recognized for creating a cancer treatment blueprint that uses peptides in vaccines to block the growt…

Siteman Cancer Center Eric Thompson, MD, will join Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children's Hospital on August 5 through his appointments at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Using spatial analysis of tissue samples, Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified patterns that could predict whether patients with the most common type of ovarian cance…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has announced that the Judd Hill Foundation has pledged $1 million to establish the Judd Hi…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Shanda H. Blackmon, MD, MPH, specializing in minimally invasive lung segmentectomy and complex thoracic surgery, has been…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Tex…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the immunotherapy-boosting drug N-803, marketed under the brand name Anktiva, to be used in co…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Enrollment is open for a clinical trial that is using CAR T technology for the first time in people with glioblastoma. This new more powerf…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A team of UF Health Cancer Center researchers led by Young-Rock Hong, PhD, has received a three-year grant from the Florida Department of Health Bank…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Chris Williams, MD, PhD, associate dean for Physician-Scientist Education and Training at Vanderbilt University, has been named to lead Research Education at Va…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have found a surprising trend in families with male infertility: an increased risk of certain cance…

Recognizing the evolution of immunotherapies over the past several years, the AACI CAR T Steering Committee recently voted to change the name of the CAR T Initiative to AACI Cellular Therapy Initiati…

AACI is pleased to announce Tech Gold, a new membership category designed especially for technology companies whose products and services benefit cancer centers. This membership provides a forum for …

Call for Research Grant and Fellowship Applications Deadline: June 14, 2024 (11:59 pm ET) The goal of the Prevent Cancer Foundation's research program is to identify and fund innovative projects with…

Supported by Advarra AACI's Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) will host "On the Frontlines of Cancer Care: Exploring Urgent Care Models in Oncology" on Thursday, May 9 at 1:00 pm easte…