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Cover Story
NCI Director's Report
By Alexandria Carolan and Matthew Bin Han Ong
Pandemic notwithstanding, NCI is on track to reach the 15th percentile for the payline by 2025—a goal set by institute Director Ned Sharpless in response to a deluge of grant applications.
In Brief
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Funding Opportunities
Clinical Roundup
Trending Stories
- In 1971, Chris Lundy had minute odds of survival. He is now the longest living BMT recipient at the Hutch
- Lei Zheng named executive director of Mays Cancer Center
- Murphy, McKay, Nodora, Ballantyne, Stupack named associate directors at UCSD Moores
- How Beth Carner went from six weeks left to live with stage 4 colon cancer to complete remission
- Infections are a major cause of death in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy
Meta-analysis focused on causes of death, excluding relapse, recurrence - NCI’s new chief data scientist Warren Kibbe tells us about efforts to get “AI-ready”
“All research now involves data science at some level.”