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Walter J. “Wally” Curran, Jr., MD, the first radiation oncologist to serve as director of a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, stepped down from that role at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in January 2021 to take the reins as global chief medical officer of GenesisCare, which provides radiation oncology, urology, and pulmonary treatments…

Anne-Marie Dingemans, MD, PhD, was installed in January 2021 as chair of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Lung Cancer Group, filling a role previously held by Benjamin Besse, MD, PhD, of the Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus in Paris. Dr. Dingemans has been a pulmonologist and professor at Erasmus Medical Center in…

Marina Chiara Garassino, MD, stepped into a role as professor of medicine in the Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago Department of Medicine in March 2021, making a move from one of the most renowned comprehensive cancer centers in Italy, the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori of Milan, where she led the Thoracic Medical Oncology…

Gouri Shankar Bhattacharyya, MD, FRCP, died this past week of COVID-19–related complications. A medical oncologist in Kolkata, India, with 25 years of experience, Dr. Bhattacharyya’s special interests were many and included biologic response modifiers, the tumor microenvironment, palliative care, and geriatric oncology. The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care awarded him with a certificate…

Christian Rolfo, MD, PhD, will take the reins as associate director for clinical research in the Center for Thoracic Oncology/Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai, New York. Previously, Dr. Rolfo served as director of thoracic medical oncology and early clinical trials at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and as a…

“Pierre was not only an amazing physician and scientist, but he was also a truly amazing, kind, generous, and loving soul who always had a smile on his face and a kind word for everyone he met.”

Liquid biopsies have also opened new perspectives in the field to which Blackhall has dedicated much of her research career. “I would like to use this award to highlight the unmet need in small-cell lung cancer, where progress has lagged behind non-small cell lung cancer in the last decade, partly because of the difficulty of…

Vansteenkiste leads the Respiratory Oncology Unit at University Hospitals Leuven, where he has been involved in approximately 300 lung cancer trials. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals during his decades-long career, including a current position as associate editor for Annals of Oncology. Among other achievements, Vansteenkiste conducted benchmark-setting research into…

Formerly an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, Brendon Stiles, MD, is now Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Oncology and Associate Director of Surgical Services for the Montefiore-Einstein Cancer Center, New York City. Dr. Stiles is looking forward to new opportunities to meaningfully address disparities in care and to reach out…