publication date: Feb. 22, 2019
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Together, the institute’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs are giving out $173 million in fiscal 2019. At NIH, these programs gave out $1.145 billion.
Caryn Lerman was named director of USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
When she reports to work at USC on March 15, Lerman will be the only behavioral scientist to lead an NCI-designated cancer center. She also will hold the position of professor of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
- NCI’s Rosenberg to receive Szent-Györgyi prize
- Vale named executive director of HHMI Janelia Research Campus
- Baylor consolidates cancer center clinics on new McNair Campus
- Merck to acquire Immune Design
- Doubrava joins Fox Chase
The American Society of Clinical Oncology is inviting applications for research grants for projects that use data from CancerLinQ Discovery, an offering of ASCO’s CancerLinQ initiative, as a source.

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