John Burklow replaced by Seana Cranston as NIH chief of staff

The Directors: Ben Ho Park and Suresh Ramalingam discuss tough times, uncertainty, and resilience
“If you’re going to be an oncologist, we look at the glass 5% full, not 95% empty.”

In the face of the unknown, two cancer center leaders discuss planning for the future, recovering from setbacks, and holding on to what they still have.

September 12, 2025

Vol.51 No.33

By Claire Marie Porter, Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

Cancer Policy

As House committee gives NIH a small raise, cancer groups hope to maintain bipartisan support

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has voted along party lines passing a bill that maintains current funding levels for NIH and NCI as part of its Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies spending bill.

September 12, 2025

Vol.51 No.33

By Claire Marie Porter

In Brief

Wistar Institute receives $17M NIH grant for personalized HIV cure research

The Wistar Institute has received an NIH granted, five-year $17 million research award to launch iCure Consortium to develop individualized “cure regimens” for HIV.

September 12, 2025

Vol.51 No.33

Podcast

On Capitol Hill, NIH gets congressional support and RFK Jr. gets slammed

As NIH and NCI funding is negotiated in Congress, Paul W. Thurman felt compelled to crunch some numbers. He compared the U.S.’s cumulative funding for NCI to the funding slated for ICE—the latter of which vastly outweighs the former—and asked whether the funding priorities of the federal government are properly representing the nation’s mortality.

September 10, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

In Brief

UC San Diego awarded $80M to expand clinical trials and train future researchers

UC San Diego and a growing coalition of regional institutions are making clinical research more accessible and more impactful across Southern California.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

Podcast

In The Headlines: A good week for NIH, a bad week for Vinay Prasad

While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.

August 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.30

John Burklow replaced by Seana Cranston as NIH chief of staff

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The Directors: Ben Ho Park and Suresh Ramalingam discuss tough times, uncertainty, and resilience“If you’re going to be an oncologist, we look at the glass 5% full, not 95% empty.”

As House committee gives NIH a small raise, cancer groups hope to maintain bipartisan support

Wistar Institute receives $17M NIH grant for personalized HIV cure research

On Capitol Hill, NIH gets congressional support and RFK Jr. gets slammed

UC San Diego awarded $80M to expand clinical trials and train future researchers

In The Headlines: A good week for NIH, a bad week for Vinay Prasad

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The Directors: Ben Ho Park and Suresh Ramalingam discuss tough times, uncertainty, and resilience
“If you’re going to be an oncologist, we look at the glass 5% full, not 95% empty.”