Lowy Discusses Reducing Cuts to Modular R01 Grants

FDA offers funding for meetings on medical policy activities

FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is soliciting grant applications from independent organizations to support meetings that bring together a broad range of stakeholders to explore, research, and address issues related to medical products, policy, and surveillance methods and systems.

April 19, 2024

Funding Opportunities

DOD Kidney Cancer Research Program funding opportunities for FY24

The FY24 Defense Appropriations Act provides funding for the Kidney Cancer Research Program to support research of exceptional scientific merit in the area of kidney cancer.

April 19, 2024

Clinical Roundup

PRECEDE study points to screening method for pancreatic cancer

Research published in April in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network showcases the feasibility of improving early detection and prevention for pancreatic cancer.

April 19, 2024

Clinical Roundup

CAP publishes guideline for PD-L1 testing for lung cancer

The College of American Pathologists in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Pathology Society, Association for Molecular Pathology, and the LUNGevity Foundation have developed evidence-based recommendations for the testing of immunotherapy biomarkers, including programmed cell death ligand-1 and tumor mutation burden in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma.

April 19, 2024

Clinical Roundup

Urine test improves non-invasive detection of prostate cancer

A urine test that measures 18 genes associated with prostate cancer provides higher accuracy for detecting clinically significant cancers than PSA and other existing biomarker tests, according to a study published April 18 in JAMA Oncology.

April 19, 2024