Grilled by Congress, Kennedy defends NIH and NCI budget cuts, freezes, and RIFs To avoid “offending” pharma, NCI doesn’t study the causes of early-onset colon cancer, HHS secretary incorrectly alleges

The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Thomas J. Lynch Jr. and Howard A. “Skip” Burris III lead two institutions that couldn’t be more different—an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center on one side of the country and a for-profit research enterprise on the other—but they stay up at nights worrying about the same thing.

Kennedy’s claims notwithstanding, NCI clinical trials are delayed, enrollments reduced
NCI’s Steven A. Rosenberg: “Almost all patients are getting delayed by about a month, but then again, we’re turning away more patients.”

Natalie Phelps, a 43-year-old mother of two, has stage 4 colorectal cancer. She has become a central figure in the controversy over the dysfunction the Trump administration’s RIFs and budget cuts have brought to NIH.

An opportunity for Trump: Position U.S. cancer science to lead the world

Last November, the American public voted on America First causes, which include the greatest scientific discovery and achievement enterprise in the world: The National Institutes of Health. NIH has made America first in biomedical science for the past century.

Senate Democratic minority report: Trump cuts cancer research by 31%

Before two consecutive congressional hearings on the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” proposal on May 14, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released a report assessing the administration’s impact on biomedical research.

May 16, 2025

Vol.51 No.19

By Claire Marie Porter

Guest Editorial

George Weiner: Cancer centers are special, as are site visits in CCSG review

The cancer center program of the NCI is a success that is admired not only within the NIH but worldwide. This is due, in large part, to the cancer center review process that has evolved and strengthened over the years.

Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBER
An oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies

Vinay Prasad, a MAHA-aligned hematologist-oncologist with an avid cyber following, was named director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, where he will be responsible for the agency’s regulation of vaccines and biologics, including cell and gene therapies.

May 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.18

By Claire Marie Porter

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Grilled by Congress, Kennedy defends NIH and NCI budget cuts, freezes, and RIFs

To avoid “offending” pharma, NCI doesn’t study the causes of early-onset colon cancer, HHS secretary incorrectly alleges

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The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient livesIn a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Kennedy’s claims notwithstanding, NCI clinical trials are delayed, enrollments reducedNCI’s Steven A. Rosenberg: “Almost all patients are getting delayed by about a month, but then again, we’re turning away more patients.”

An opportunity for Trump: Position U.S. cancer science to lead the world

Senate Democratic minority report: Trump cuts cancer research by 31%

George Weiner: Cancer centers are special, as are site visits in CCSG review

Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBERAn oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies

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The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Kennedy’s claims notwithstanding, NCI clinical trials are delayed, enrollments reduced
NCI’s Steven A. Rosenberg: “Almost all patients are getting delayed by about a month, but then again, we’re turning away more patients.”

Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBER
An oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies