Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has received a $30 million gift from the Cayton Goldrich Family Foundation to establish the Cedars-Sinai Cayton BRCA Center. The new center will focus on research, diagnosis and treatment of cancers linked to mutations in the BRCA1…
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New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and San Antonio-based START Center for Cancer Research opened a $5.7 million early-phase clinical trial facility Dec. 16 at Northwell’s R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center in Lake Success, N.Y. The Northwell-START New York-Long Island center includes 14…
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Greenwich in Connecticut will receive a $25 million grant recommended by an anonymous donor in support of expanded cancer services. The gift will support the hospital’s building fund and is being made in honor of Dickerman…
Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice related to allegations of fraud that occurred between 2014 and 2024 in connection with National Institutes of Health research grants. As part…
Conshohocken, Pa.-based pharmaceutical company Cencora plans to acquire the majority of the outstanding equity interests it does not currently own in OneOncology from TPG for approximately $3.6 billion, according to a Dec. 15 press release. OneOncology is a physician-led platform that supports…
Columbus-based Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has launched a program dedicated to patients with early-onset and young adult cancers. The BRIDGE Program — which stands for Building Research Innovation…
Atlanta-based Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has launched a lung cancer screening program that harnesses AI to detect pulmonary nodules found during CT scans. The Emory Healthcare Lung Screening and Nodule Program aims to diagnose and treat lung cancer…
Five years after participating in an allogenic CAR-T cell therapy trial, a multiple myeloma patient has remained disease-free. After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2018, a 63-year-old patient underwent multiple years of standard-of-care therapy at Cleveland Clinic. Despite experiencing…
HHS has appointed Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, as chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel. Dr. Risch is professor emeritus and senior research scientist in epidemiology at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, according…
San Francisco-based UCSF Health and Fremont, Calif.-based Washington Health have opened the UCSF-Washington Cancer Center, also in Fremont. The organizations held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Dec. 11, the Tri-City Voice reported Dec. 16. The cancer center houses 17…