Oncology

UCSF Health in San Francisco has selected Krishna Komanduri, MD, to serve as division chief of hematology-oncology, effective July 1. 

Tens of millions of dollars have been donated to fund specialty cancer centers and accelerate cancer research in recent weeks. 

Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital has submitted a new proposal for the construction of a cancer center, Westchester & Fairfield Business Journals reported March 28.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a "significant" gift from Susan and Steve Kelly to establish a center for cancer immunotherapy, the hospital said March 28.

The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center received a $15 million gift from the Michels Family Foundation for rare cancers research, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported March 25. 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center launched an immunotherapy research institute with James Allison, PhD, as its inaugural director. 

Geisinger held a ribbon cutting March 23 on an $80 million expansion to the cancer center at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Four oncology-related partnerships formed, advanced or renewed since March 16: 

The University of Oklahoma in Norman received funding to establish the Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research, the university said March 22.

Here are three findings made by Yale Cancer Center scientists Becker's has covered since March 4: