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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Four top teams of ovarian cancer researchers are uniting efforts in an unprecedented collaboration aimed at enabling early detection and perhaps preven…

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, …

WVU Cancer Institute Ivan 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…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new clinical trial at OSUCCC - James and three other leading cancer centers aims t…

Siteman Cancer Center Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support an open-source da…

In October 2018, AACI’s Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) formed the Regulatory File Management Working Group. The working group has established recommendations for implementing and working with eRe…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Brian Rini, MD, a leader in genitourinary oncology, kidney cancer, and clinical drug development, will join Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in January 2020 as t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center An initiative to establish a streamlined process for collection of family health histories could set the stage for a standardized system to make the information…

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…

Nominations are now being accepted for the AACI Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI) Steering Committee. The PCLI Steering Committee helps guide the activities of the initiative and identi…

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 …

Last month, AACI, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Cancer Society announced the winners of this year’s HPV Vaccine Is Cancer Prevention Champion Award. This award wa…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at Rogel Cancer Center have taken a promising new approach to targeting STAT3 — developing a small-molecule compound that harnesses the p…

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…

The United States House of Representatives and Senate came together to pass another continuing resolution for government funding on November 21. With President Trump’s signature, a government shutdow…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center In a new kind of real-world study, a "pragmatic" clinical trial, University of Florida researchers found that hepatitis C patients who previously did…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study could explain why drugs will often work for some cancer types, but not others. "We’ve been targeting the cancer-causing gene for therapy, but it tu…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Cellular machines that control chromosome structure, such as the RSC complex, are mutated in about one-fifth of all human cancers. Now, for …

Your cancer center's news doesn't take a break—and now, neither does AACI Update. The submission deadline for our January 2020 issue is Wednesday, December 18. Many thanks for your cancer center's co…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Prostate Cancer Foundation has awarded the 2019 PCF VAlor Challenge Award to a team of Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health resea…

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…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University has received a $70 million gift from Sidney and Caroline Kimmel. The Caroline Kimmel Biomedical Research Building wi…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team led by a Roswell Park scientist has identified the molecule LRIG1 as an important endogenous tumor suppressor in prostate cancer. The t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Researchers have identified a cell surface receptor that is essential for the function and survival of resistant prostate cancer cells, an…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Stephen D. Nimer, MD, director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently received designation from the National Cancer In…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Together with two state legislators, OSUCCC – James has announced new legislation th…

Moffitt Cancer Center Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA, FACP, has joined Moffitt Cancer Center as the new senior vice president and chief digital innovation officer. With more than 16 years of clinic…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Erica Golemis, PhD, leader of the Molecular Therapeutics Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named a 2019 fellow of the American Association for the Ad…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Kidney cancer patients who had already tried two or three different treatments had improved chances of preventing cancer progression with an experiment…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A study led by UCLA researchers found that adding ribociclib to standard hormone therapy significantly improves overall survival in postmenopausal wome…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A team comprising members of the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials network funded by the National Cancer Institute, has identified t…

AACI welcomes its newest and 100th member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center, one of seven National Cancer Institute-designated basic laboratory cancer centers. Directed by David Tuv…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have discovered how to predict whether triple-negative breast cancer will…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida researchers have found mutation hot spots in a unique class of proteins that could drive cancer progression. "Many of these mut…

AACI and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will co-host the 2020 Hill Day in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, May 13. AACI is encouraging its U.S. members to send at least one represen…

AACI cancer center directors are invited to submit nominations for the 2020 Champion for Cures Award by Friday, January 31. AACI established the award in 2018 to recognize an individual or individual…

The AACI Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) Steering Committee is currently soliciting abstracts for the 12th Annual AACI CRI Meeting that will be held July 7-9 in Chicago. This year’s meeting will f…

After several weeks of uncertainty, Congress united to pass a budget deal for Fiscal Year 2020. The budget allocates $41.7 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and $6.44 billion to the …

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University The immune system establishes "forward operating bases," or lymph node-like structures, inside the tumors of some patients with kidney and other ur…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute researchers have observed how stem cell mutations quietly arise and spread throughout a widening field of the colon …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center After receiving acupuncture treatment three days a week during the course of radiation treatment, head and neck cancer patients experienced le…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research led by pediatric oncologist Kara Kelly, MD, at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has confirmed what several earlier studies showed: tha…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new approach to programming cancer-fighting immune cells called CAR T cells can prolong their activity and increase their effectiveness against human cancer cells g…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that a protein involved in immune response to microbes also can fu…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers are developing a new imaging technique that can provide accurate, real-time, computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Using deep l…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Consuming a seaweed found near the Florida Keys may offer health benefits in preventing colon cancer and inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps explain why some people with advanced cancer may not respond to one o…

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new study,  Moffitt Cancer Center scientists describe a community-based program called the Rapid Tissue Donation protocol. It enables patients to consent to donating…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new study makes a case for getting a mammogram every year instead of every other year. Women diagnosed with breast cancer after receiving yearly ma…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Jeffrey Peterson, PhD, has been awarded a $1.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Defense as part of its mission to address important challenges and…

Stanford Cancer Institute Neighborhoods with high proportions of gay and bisexual men are twice as likely to have an indoor tanning salon as neighborhoods with fewer sexual minority men, accor…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A preclinical study led by researchers at KU Cancer Center has identified a potential new target in the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, th…

AACI has launched three new leadership listservs for administrative directors and medical directors of clinical trials offices and for members of the Physician Clinical Leadership Initiative (PCLI), …

Stanford Cancer Institute In a speech at Stanford University, National Cancer Institute Director Norman Sharpless, MD, reported promising cancer mortality trends and described an encouraging l…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has announced that Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD, is the center’s new president and director. Dr. Lynch, a well-known cancer leader with expertise in solid tumor rese…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Richard L. Eckert, PhD, has been named deputy director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Green…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Gustavo Leone, PhD, director of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, has announced that he has accepted a position as director of the M…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center An $18 million commitment from the Simms/Mann Family Foundation, led by Dr. Victoria Mann Simms and Ronald Simms, will support UCLA’s expansion of inte…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center (YCC) has launched the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity. Building on YCC’s longstanding commitment to high-quali…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to the drug enfortumab vedotin (EV) to treat adult patients with advanc…

Registration is now open for the AACI/AACR Hill Day on Wednesday, May 13 in Washington, DC. Hill Day will bring cancer center directors, researchers, physician-scientists, cancer survivors, and other…

In 2019 AACI grew its membership, awarded patient advocate scholarships for its annual Hill Day, hosted its first CAR T therapy symposium, and increased the publication frequency of the Update newsle…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center In 2013, a research team from Roswell Park, led by Elizabeth Repasky, PhD, reported that chronic stress can encourage the development and proliferation…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute New research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration wit…

Moffitt Cancer Center Most patients with advanced melanoma who develop metastases in the leptomeninges only survive for 8-10 weeks after diagnosis. One reason for this poor prognosis is that v…

Siteman Cancer Center Cancer patients who receive proton therapy experience similar cure rates and fewer serious side effects compared with those who undergo traditional X-ray radiation therap…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins researchers report that a type of biodegradable, lab-engineered nanoparticle they fashioned can successfully…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and University of Utah (U of U) Health Hospitals and Clinics have announced that Don Milligan, MBA, will ser…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD, MPH, and David Wheeler, MPH, PhD, received a $2.1 million R01 grant from the National Cancer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, professor and chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected to the American So…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Mice given a new drug targeting a key gene involved in lipid and glucose metabolism could tolerate a high-fat diet regimen (composed of 60 perce…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center By continuously monitoring the body temperature of mice that had undergone bone-marrow transplants, researchers were able to detect early warning sig…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The Kidney Cancer Association is recognizing the research accomplishments and leadership achievements of W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, with its top honor, the Eugene P.…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Sara Piccirillo, PhD, has received the 2019 Gianni Bonadonna prize for new drug development, which she will use to fund her research on glioblasto…

2019 was a landmark year in the longstanding effort to federally raise the age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21. The movement’s origins can be traced to 1996 when the Preventing Tobacco …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center National guidelines recommend that men with prostate cancer eat a vegetable-rich diet, suggesting it might decrease cancer progression and death. But i…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated a potential new approach to treating two of the most common subtypes…

GW Cancer Center The Cutaneous Oncology Program at GW Cancer Center was selected as the first global site for a clinical trial for patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Th…

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has appointed Roxanne Taylor as chief marketing and communications officer, effective February 3. Taylor wil…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has announced the results of its Pilot Project Competition for Junior Investigators, which was held last fall. The competition is…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University For adult patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas, surgically removing the entire tumor may add months or even years of…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A study led by researchers at OSUCCC – James reveals how a clotting protein and bloo…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Many viruses are master manipulators, hijacking cellular functions to propagate, spread and avoid elimination by their host's immune system. Now, Uni…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center The benefits of a daily aspirin may extend to colorectal cancer treatment, say City of Hope researchers who have found aspirin appears to reduce tumor …

Siteman Cancer Center Gynecologic oncologist Dineo Khabele, MD, noted for her expertise in ovarian cancer research and treatment, has been named head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gyne…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Supercharged immune cells called CAR T cells have the potential to eradicate even the nastiest blood cancers. But CAR T-cell therapy is still new, with many unkno…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The likelihood of a patient responding to immune checkpoint blockade may depend on B cells in the tumor, located within specialized immune-cel…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named two new associate directors. Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, will be the associate director for quan…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the appointmen…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health welcomes Usama Gergis, MD, MBA, as director of the Bone Marrow Transplant and Immune Cellula…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center welcomes Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH, as its new associate director for cancer population sciences, following an extensive s…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Steven Bender, MBA, FHFMA, formerly senior director of finance for Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine in Boca Raton, has been…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center have received a three-year, $900,000 grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance to better unde…

Last month the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a letter to the editor authored by AACI President Roy A. Jensen, MD, and AACI Conflict of Interest (COI) Task Force Co-chai…