Research

Providence and Arizona State University are collaborating on a new mRNA vaccine research project aimed at boosting the effectiveness of T-cell therapies for pancreatic cancer. The Renton, Wash.-based health system and the Tempe, Ariz.-based university received a $225,000 grant from…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will acquire the Nvidia H200-powered computing platform through a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The platform will support large-scale artificial intelligence and machine learning…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has partnered with Eli Lilly to expand clinical trial access across the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana. The two-year partnership launched in February and is focused on opening clinical trials faster and…

Cancer-related medical costs can reach more than $121,000 per year during the final year of life, according to a study published July 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  Researchers from the American Cancer Society and National Cancer…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham O’Neal Cancer Center will expand and name its clinical trials program after receiving a $5 million gift.  The Estes Family Clinical Trials Program at the UAB O’Neal Cancer Center is named in honor of…

Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…

Patients diagnosed with autism are 35.6% less likely to receive cancer screening within one year of reaching screening eligibility despite being diagnosed at roughly the same rate as the general population. As a result, patients with autism are more likely…

The National Cancer Institute has appointed Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD, director of the Center for Cancer Research.  Dr. Muthuswamy previously served as chief of the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics within the Center for Cancer Research, according to a July…

Cancer care providers were about three times more likely than cancer survivors to report awareness of medical cannabis’s potential risks, according to a study published June 20 in the Journal of Cancer Education. Researchers at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Massey Comprehensive…

In January, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched an investigation into potential abuse of the federal H-1B visa program, directing all state agencies and public universities to freeze new H-1B visa applications and submit H-1B utilization information to the Texas Workforce…