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.
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
