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Miriam Hospital treats patients in 2 new prostate cancer trials

Health Services 02/15/2026

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital says it has treated the first patients in the world in two new clinical trials testing therapies for prostate...

ROOM TO ROAM: The 30,000-square-foot Ocean State Labs, on the fourth floor of 150 Richmond St., in Providence will feature lots of exterior and interior windows between labs and offices to give a sense of openness and inspire collaboration, the designers say.  COURTESY OCEAN STATE LABS

Ocean State Labs puts open layout to the test

Education 10/24/2025

As Rhode Island’s life sciences industry continues to take shape, John Flavin wants the state’s first incubator wet lab space to feel different from...

HEAVY METAL: Gregory Mercurio, senior vice president of radiation oncology for American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island, stands in front of a cyclotron, which generates particles that create the protons used in proton beam radiation therapy for cancer patients. The cyclotron must be surrounded by a vault, which together weigh 230,000 pounds. COURTESY GREGORY MERCURIO

Proton radiation therapy center expects to boost cancer care in Rhode...

Health Matters 04/25/2025

Dr. David Wazer has sent hundreds of cancer patients to Boston because the treatment they needed didn’t exist in Rhode Island. Brown University Health, where...

CANCER FIGHT: Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, right, director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, is one of the doctors pushing to get a National Cancer Institute designation for the center and is seeking help from state leaders.  COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Funding, data sharing needed for R.I. to advance cancer innovations

Focus 02/02/2024

When Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, one of the nation’s top physician-scientists and oncologists, came to Rhode Island in 2019, he was eager to help the...

BROWN UNIVERSITY received a $25 million gift from Royalty Pharma founder and CEO Pablo Legorreta and his wife Almudena to help advance the university's new cancer center. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown University receives $25M gift to enhance its cancer center

Education 12/10/2021

PROVIDENCE – A $25 million grant from the founder and CEO of a New York-based biopharmaceutical research funding organization will help Brown University’s new...

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