The Senate Committee on Appropriations June 25 approved the fiscal 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill, which would boost NIH’s budget to $32 billion—an increase of $2 billion above fiscal 2015.
On Aug. 26, FDA approved the RAS inhibitor, daraxonrasib, sponsored by Revolution Medicines Inc. and also known as Rasonque, for patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have received at least one prior systemic therapy or are not candidates for multiagent systemic therapy.
