NCI to Host Small Business Innovation Research Forum

As cancer scientists, we must change how we engage with the public on the impact of NIH cuts
What the scientific method obscures

We recently had the privilege of contributing to a CBS Sunday Morning story on the ongoing crisis in the federal support for research in general and cancer research in particular.

July 03, 2025

By George J. Weiner and Elizabeth M. Jaffee

In weekly vigils, current and former NIH staff grieve the impact of Trump cuts
The Saturday gatherings at NIH’s Metro station are part graveside service, part street theater

Since early May, a group of current and former NIH employees have gathered every Saturday at the Medical Center Metro station in Bethesda, MD, to mourn what they describe as the loss of scientific progress under the Trump administration.

July 03, 2025

By Claire Marie Porter

Scaling excellence: How City of Hope is transforming cancer care delivery

The landscape of cancer care in America faces critical challenges: geographic disparities in access, socioeconomic barriers to advanced treatments and the increasing complexity of precision medicine that outpaces individual providers’ ability to stay current. At City of Hope, we are addressing these systemic issues through a bold expansion that brings world-class cancer care and research closer to where patients live.

July 03, 2025

By Alan H. Bryce and Walter M. Stadler

Podcast

In the Headlines: MD Anderson’s Pisters on doing “something gigantic for pediatric cancer”

MD Anderson and Texas Children’s Hospital have entered into a collaboration to build a $1 billion pediatric cancer hospital. The hospital, tentatively slated to open in 2031 or 2032, is on track to become one of the largest pediatric cancer hospitals in the world.

July 02, 2025

Vol.51 No.25

Clinical

How MD Anderson and Texas Children’s made plans to build a $1 billion pediatric cancer hospital—one of the world’s largest

The windows down the hall from the operating room scrub sinks at MD Anderson Cancer Center look out at the tower of Texas Children’s Hospital.

At House hearing, Democrats clash with RFK Jr. over “radical obstruction of congressional oversight,” vaccine policies
Rep. Lori Trahan: “People are going to die”

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to defend the HHS fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, and faced criticism from several Democratic lawmakers on what they described as a lack of transparency and scientific rigor in the agency’s recent decisions.

June 27, 2025

Vol.51 No.25

By Claire Marie Porter

NCI to Host Small Business Innovation Research Forum

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As cancer scientists, we must change how we engage with the public on the impact of NIH cutsWhat the scientific method obscures

In weekly vigils, current and former NIH staff grieve the impact of Trump cutsThe Saturday gatherings at NIH’s Metro station are part graveside service, part street theater

Scaling excellence: How City of Hope is transforming cancer care delivery

In the Headlines: MD Anderson’s Pisters on doing “something gigantic for pediatric cancer”

How MD Anderson and Texas Children’s made plans to build a $1 billion pediatric cancer hospital—one of the world’s largest

At House hearing, Democrats clash with RFK Jr. over “radical obstruction of congressional oversight,” vaccine policiesRep. Lori Trahan: “People are going to die”

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As cancer scientists, we must change how we engage with the public on the impact of NIH cuts
What the scientific method obscures

In weekly vigils, current and former NIH staff grieve the impact of Trump cuts
The Saturday gatherings at NIH’s Metro station are part graveside service, part street theater

At House hearing, Democrats clash with RFK Jr. over “radical obstruction of congressional oversight,” vaccine policies
Rep. Lori Trahan: “People are going to die”