The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded 60 new academic research, centered around cancer prevention, and product development research grants totaling more than $102 million.CPRIT has awarded 1,189 grants totaling more than $1.89 billion. The agency began making awards in 2009 after Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a 2007 constitutional amendment committing $3 billion to the fight against cancer. Fifty-one of the awards, totaling more than $79 million, went to academic research grants/ Eight prevention services grants were awarded totaling $14 million, as well as one product development research grant for $9 million.“The large number of awards approved by CPRIT underlies the growth of the cancer-fighting ecosystem in Texas,” said Wayne Roberts, CPRIT chief executive officer. “This momentum is evident as Texas expands its critical mass of talent in our life-sciences sector.”
Leadership is changing at The Wistar Institute and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute in the months to come—but the leaders of the two institutions say that this will have little if any effect on the clinical-research collaboration that they have spent the past 15years building (The Cancer Letter, July 12, 2019).
