The Biden administration on Monday said it intends to nominate cancer surgeon Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following a 16-month search for a permanent successor to the agency's long-serving director Dr. Francis Collins, who stepped down in December 2021.
Friends of Cancer Research appointed Edward S. Kim, MD, MBA, FACP, FASCO, to its board of directors.Kim — an associate medical editor for Healio | HemOnc Today — is physician-in-chief and senior vice president of City of Hope Orange County. He also is vice physician-in-chief and professor with City of Hope National Medical Center.
President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union speech to unveil additional actions in the fight against cancer as part of the administration s revived "Cancer Moonshot" initiative, which has a goal of cutting the death rate from cancer by 50% over the next 25 years.
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