Warren Kibbe, director of the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, is leaving NCI in mid-August to take a new position as chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine, and chief data officer for the Duke Cancer Institute.
In last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, wrote a story about the then-promising legislative package that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Jan. 22. At the time, the package was expected to pass in the Senate, provide funding for the federal government through fiscal year 2026, and prevent a government shutdown that looms Jan. 30.
