Ike Anand, 48, the newly appointed President and CEO of American Lebanese, Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), now leads the awareness and fundraising organization that helps drive the mission of ...

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Ike Anand has been named president and CEO of the fundraising organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Anand has served as interim CEO of the American Lebanese ...

Ike Anand has served as interim CEO for ALSAC since March 2025. He previously served as the organization's chief operating ...

Anand is the "perfect person" for the roles, said Marlo Thomas, national outreach director for St. Jude and daughter of its ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying transcription, the ...

A single infusion of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy led to sustained clinical benefit and no late-onset safety concerns in patients with severe hemophilia B, a longitudinal ...

New findings show that the stage of normal cell development at which B cells transform into leukemic cells impacts treatment ...

He reached out to Ed Barry, the chairman of the board for the new hospital, and Mike Tamer, the executive director for the American Lebanese Syrian and Association Charities. (Thomas was Lebanese).

The World Bank has approved over $1 billion dollars for infrastructure and reconstruction projects in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

Syria's Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State group.

Pope Leo XIV today appealed for peace and reconciliation in four countries of the Middle East—Israel, Iran, Palestine and Syria—that have experienced tremendous violence in recent days. He did ...