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Stanford Cancer Institute A large study by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risk of secondary blood cancers after CAR T-cell therapy is low, despite a U.S. Food and Drug Adm…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research effort led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center sheds light on the biology and mechanisms behind castration-resistant prostate cancer…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UCSF faculty and clinicians working to take on the challenge of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated their first patient with a promising …

Siteman Cancer Center The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has awarded Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center a $5 million grant to support trials in cell-based immunotherap…

Stanford Cancer Institute Howard Chang, MD, PhD, has been awarded the 2024 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. He was honored for his research…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD, an oncologist and scientist whose groundbreaking research has transformed the treatment of breast cancer, has been awarded the 2024 S…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Changing how often a popular cancer therapy is delivered would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental impact without decreasing ca…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at the University of Utah have designed new digital tools that prompt doctors to consider lung cancer screening for high-risk pa…

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer and the UC Davis Department of Radiology have discovered a novel way to image the unique blood supply of the lu…

Siteman Cancer Center A study by Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center suggests a new strategy of using gut microbes to help unlock immunotherapy’s untapped cancer-fightin…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and So…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA scientists have identified a protein that plays a critical role in regulating human blood stem cell self-renewal by helping them sense and interpr…

Siteman Cancer Center Eric Duncavage, MD, a research member of Siteman Cancer Center, has been named director of the newly created Division of Genomic and Molecular Pathology at Washington Uni…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Preliminary results from a first in-human Phase I trial using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy developed by researchers from City of Ho…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study suggests that a bone marrow transplant from a haploidentical, or half-identical, relative may greatly increase patients’ odds of success, in …

UK Markey Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic, and UK Markey Cancer Center found that …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Researchers at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have been awarded five new grants f…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new study shows that a process called NETosis, in which neutrophils eject their DNA to create webs, may contribute to the development of cytokine r…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai has once again earned national recognition as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader. It is one of 384 U.S. health care facilities to receive this designation in the H…

GW Cancer Center Sonal Paul, MD, has joined the GW Cancer Center and the GW Medical Faculty Associates as a hematologist-oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers.

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A new report details the first evaluation of innate and adaptive immune response in bone marrow to a novel immunomodulatory molecule—Iberdomide—as par…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center When prostate-specific antigen levels begin to rise again prostate cancer surgery, it often indicates a higher risk of the cancer spreading to other part…

Siteman Cancer Center Sana D. Karam, MD, PhD, will lead radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, beginni…

Save the date for the 17th Annual AACI CRI Meeting, June 23-25, 2025, at Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL.

Last month, AACI participated in a congressional briefing on cancer drug parity, hosted by the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF)-led Coalition to Improve Access to Cancer Care (CIACC). AACI lead…

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is seeking an innovative leader to serve as the director, Office of Cancer Centers (OCC). The OCC supports 72 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers nationwide that are loc…

Save the date for the 2025 AACI Leadership Diversity and Development Workshop, March 11-12, at the Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL. More details and registration information are forthcomin…

Save the date for the 2025 AACI/AACR Hill Day, Thursday, May 22, in Washington, DC. More details and registration information are forthcoming.

Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, has been appointed executive director of the Mays Cancer Center and vice president for oncology for the health science center, effective September 1. A world-renowned pancreatic c…

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Ze’ev Ronai, PhD, is stepping down as director of Sanford Burnham Prebys, effective August 1. Cosimo Commisso, PhD, deputy director, will ser…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Nearly 135 middle and high school educators from six states across the Southeast participated in the UF Health Cancer Center’s fifth annual Cancer Re…

Nearly three years after longtime University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Director George Weiner, MD, announced plans to step down, the health care enterprise has announced the appointm…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has created two new associate director positions to further advance cancer health equity and inclusive…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center The UVM Cancer Center is recruiting emerging leaders to join its external advisory board (EAB) for the 2024 review cycle. This opportunity is designed f…

In an era of increasing health misinformation, it is more important than ever to craft messages that help academic and medical institutions secure—and in some cases, regain—public trust. "Establishin…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Anthony Sung, MD, has been named director of the Center for Survivorship and Patient-Oriented Research at The University of Kansas Cancer Center. Before …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center As cancer treatment and survivorship care relies more on understanding the genetic make up of an individual’s tumor, a study from the University of M…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The results have been published of an international clinical trial led by Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center is among just a handful of hos…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a $4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to help advan…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A study from researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U), the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the U,…

Stanford Cancer Institute In an early Stanford Medicine study, CAR T-cell therapy helps some with intractable lymphoma, but those who relapse have few options. Modifying the therapy’s molecula…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Hematologist-oncologist Rahul Banerjee, MD, a multiple myeloma expert, highlighted how monitoring measurable residual disease, or MRD, will help clinicians more e…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new UK Markey Cancer Center study reveals that many people with cancer in the U.S. do not have equal access to facilities that offer proton beam therapy. The research…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the first federal guidelines for anal cancer screening in people wit…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Michelle Mendoza, PhD, and Jeffrey Weiss, PhD, are the recipients of a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research…

Stony Brook Cancer Center Six years ago, Stony Brook University licensed a promising technology to Artelo Biosciences that identified Fatty Acid Binding Proteins (FABPs) as drug targets of the…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Years of research by Vanderbilt University Medical Center to determine how precancerous cells in the stomach transition to gastric cancer and to develop prevent…

Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have shown that beginning surveillance soon after recognizing a patient’s gen…

Stanford Cancer Institute Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, was awarded the 2024 William Dameshek Award from the American Society of Hematology for pioneering the development and application of genomic approaches…

Siteman Cancer Center Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD, a Washington University physician-scientist at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named to the scientific advisory board of the Lymphoma Research Foundatio…

GW Cancer Center Sharad Goyal, MD, MS, is among 48 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) members to receive the 2024 ASTRO Fellow (FASTRO) designation. Dr. Goyal's areas of research includ…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Linda Liau, MD, PhD, MPH, chair of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica—Taiwan'…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has been recognized by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Accreditation Program for Excellen…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Carma Bylund, PhD, and Stephanie Staras, PhD, have received a $2.5-million grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to focus on the imple…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Katrin Karbstein, PhD, has been appointed co-leader of the cancer cell biology program in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. She will develop and implement pr…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Researchers at UVA Cancer Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the results produced by five differ…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, the University of Manitoba, and collaborating insti…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a recent study, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggest the cell’s messenger RNA along with a critical protein ca…

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Enloe Health and UC Davis Health are bringing cancer research and clinical trials to more patients in Northern California. As the newest affiliate of the U…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and So…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas researchers have developed a new method for detecting lung cancer early: a blood test, also known as a "liquid biopsy," that det…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park has elevated five new leaders: Lovejeet "LJ" Awal, MSN, FNP, RN, promoted to chief of Advanced Practice Nursing; Maegan Chmura, MSN, RN, p…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University A recently published study reveals a new AI-based computational pathology tool designed to better manage treatment for patients with ductal carcino…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University physicians Clifford G. Robinson, MD, and Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, at Siteman Cancer Center have been named fellows of the American Society for Radiation…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Three Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have received a grant totaling nearly $2.4 million from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study racial and…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Joshua Richter, MD, Sundar Jagannath, MBBS, and colleagues report on a Phase I/II first-in-human trial of linvoseltamab, a B-cell maturation antigen x…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using genetic engineering techniques, investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Ludwig Center, the L…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Anne Bowcock, PhD, is principal investigator on a newly-awarded Melanoma Research Alliance Team Science Grant aimed at developing new, effective treat…

Louisiana Cancer Research Center Tiffany Seagroves, MBA, PhD, PMP, has joined Tulane University School of Medicine as a professor in the John W. Deming Department of Medicine, Section of Hemat…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers have identified unique 3-dimensional features called TULIPs in the genome of posterior fossa group A (PFA) ep…

AACI members are invited to support the 2024 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting by purchasing an ad in the digital meeting program. Support opportunities are also available for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclu…

AACI has endorsed HR 7635, the Pharmaceutical Access to Invest in Essential, Needed Treatments & Support Act (340B PATIENTS Act). Introduced in March 2024 by Representative Doris Matsui (D-CA), t…

UK Markey Cancer Center A UK Markey Cancer Center researcher has received a three-year, $747,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study how lung cancer metastasizes. The work …

Webinar: MI Cancer SeekJoin Caris Life Sciences scientific and medical leaders as they discuss MI Cancer Seek™, the first and only simultaneous WES/WTS-based assay with CDx indications for adult and …

Site neutrality is a defined policy in which Medicare Part B would pay hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and physician-based practices the same amount if they provided the same service. While i…

In partnership with the American Cancer Society and the Cancer Center DEI Network, AACI will hold the 2024 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Summit on October 19-20 in conjunction with the 2024 …

The 2024 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting will be held October 20-22 at Loews Chicago Downtown Hotel in Chicago, IL. A virtual registration option is also available to those who cannot attend in person.

The 2025 AACI Catchment Area Data Excellence (CADEx) Conference will be held January 29-31, at the Coronado Island Marriott Resort & Spa in Coronado, CA.

In partnership with the American Cancer Society and the Cancer Center DEI Network, AACI will hold the 2024 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Summit on October 19-20 in conjunction with the 2024 …

The 2024 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting will be held October 20-22 at Loews Chicago Downtown Hotel in Chicago, IL. 

Save the date for the 2025 AACI Catchment Area Data Excellence (CADEx) Conference, January 29-31, in Coronado, CA. Registration opens in September 2024.

Save the date for the 2025 AACI/AACR Hill Day, Thursday, May 22, in Washington, DC. More details and registration information are forthcoming.

Save the date for the 17th Annual AACI CRI Meeting, June 23-25, 2025, at Loews Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, IL.