Vote now in Board elections, 2025 Medical Student Fellowship awardees, ASTRO 2025 Keynote
June 11, 2025
| ASTRO 2025 elections open today, submit your vote |
| ASTRO's 2025 official elections are now open! Voting begins at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time today and will remain open until Friday, July 11. To view the nominees and access the ballot, visit www.astro.org/Vote and log in with your email address and password. The ballot and instructions will appear once you log in. Please email if you need assistance with your login. Voting is conducted through a secure, online system that ensures the authenticity and secrecy of your ballot. |
| Congratulations to the 2025 ASTRO Medical Student Fellowship awardees and mentors |
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| We are pleased to announce the 10 recipients of this year’s Medical Student Fellowship (MSF) awards. The MSF awards provide financial support to promising medical students to introduce them to the discipline of radiation oncology. Each awardee spends eight weeks of the summer studying clinical, basic and translational radiation oncology research questions and learning new techniques with ASTRO mentors. Awardees also receive a travel award for the ASTRO Annual Meeting. Mentors of awardees are honored with the ASTRO-BCRF Medical Student Fellowship: Mentor Award, recognizing their commitment to training early career physicians and scientists.
Learn more about the ASTRO Medical Student Fellowship program and the ASTRO-BCRF Medical Student Fellowship: Mentor Awards. |
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New on the Blog: Updates from 2024 Survivor Circle Grants Awardees At the 66th Annual Meeting, two organizations based in the Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) region, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and Touch4Life, each received a $12,500 Survivor Circle Grant. Both organizations shared with ASTRO how their respective organizations have further advanced their missions since receiving the grant last fall. Read more. |
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ASTRO 2025: Get to know keynote presenter Bryant Lin, MD On June 2, 2025, CBS Mornings covered the story of Dr. Bryant Lin, one of our keynote speakers for ASTRO 2025. The piece entitled, “Stanford professor turns his terminal cancer diagnosis into a class on life, death and hope,” shares Dr. Lin’s story from his terminal cancer diagnosis through the creation of a course for medical students that serves as Lin’s way of giving back to his community. View the video and read the story to learn more. We invite you to join us for the ASTRO Annual Meeting September 27 – October 1, 2025, for an opportunity to hear from Dr. Lin about his experience. Registration and housing are now open! |
| Coming to ASTRO Academy in July: Advances in Sarcoma Treatment webinar series |
| Sarcomas are a rare and heterogenous group of malignancies requiring a multidisciplinary approach for optimal management. This live webinar series, Advances in Sarcoma Treatment, brings together experts in oncology, radiology, radiation therapy and radiation oncology to discuss cutting-edge advancements in sarcoma diagnosis and treatment. The series is divided into three one-hour webinars, each focusing on a key aspect of sarcoma management: advanced imaging, data-informed approaches for angiosarcoma management, and novel radiation techniques. Mark your calendar for July 2, July 14 and July 18, and register now! |
| ROCR receives new cosponsor; Spotlight during Hill Roundtable |
| The Radiation Oncology Case Rate (ROCR) Act (S.1031/HR.2120) has gained another key cosponsor in Senator Chris Coons (D-DE). In addition, ASTRO’s Government Relations Committee Vice-chair Gopal Bajaj, MD, MBA, FASTRO, highlighted the ROCR Act during a roundtable with physician members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol June 5. Visit What’s Happening in Washington to read more. |
| ASTRO joins partners addressing budget reconciliation and NIH funding |
| ASTRO recently signed on to three letters addressing concerns related to congressional Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill and proposed NIH funding cuts. Two of the letters, which were signed by over 30 physician societies, urged the Senate to address physician payment cuts, protect access to federal student loans, allow for small practices to deduct state-level taxes, and prevent Medicaid coverage losses. The third letter urged congressional appropriations leaders to reject the steep cuts to medical research in President Trump’s FY26 budget request. See more at What’s Happening in Washington. |
| Submit your ROI and ARRO publication award nominations today! |
| Are you passionate about recognizing remarkable research? Nominate deserving early career investigators for the ROI Publication Excellence Awards and the ARRO Health Care Access Publication Award by July 7! Winners receive $1,500 and will be honored at the ASTRO Annual Meeting. Eligible manuscripts can be nominated for one or both awards through the joint application on ProposalCentral. Celebrate the achievements of those making a difference in radiation oncology and submit your nomination today! |
| Find out why APEx is the right choice for your practice |
| ASTRO believes that APEx is the right choice for any radiation oncology practice and knows that the results are worth the effort. Sign up for a personalized, one-on-one meeting to start your practice's path to joining the APEx accredited practices. |
