DOGE implements manual review of awarded funds

Women’s Health Initiative funding officially restored

On April 21, investigators with the Women’s Health Initiative were notified that HHS planned to terminate the WHI Regional Center contracts at the end of the current fiscal year (The Cancer Letter, April 20, 2025).

May 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.18

By Claire Marie Porter

Funding Opportunities

CDMRP announces rare cancers research program funding opportunities for FY25

The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025 provides $650 million in funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (The Cancer Letter, March 28, 2025). Congress provided further guidance for CDMRP program-level funding, including funding for the Rare Cancers Research Program.

May 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.18

Funding Opportunities

AACR establishes grant program to support early-stage and mid-career cancer researchers

The American Association for Cancer Research has established the AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grant Program.

May 02, 2025

Vol.51 No.17

Cancer Policy

NIH notice prohibits grant awardees from operating programs that promote DEI

NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.”

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan to resign

Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, will resign from the position 16 months before the scheduled end of his six-year term.

April 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.16

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Claire Marie Porter

Funding Opportunities

2025 AACR-Novocure grants for cancer research now accepting applications

The American Association for Cancer Research-Novocure Career Development Award for Cancer Research represents a joint effort to promote and support early-career investigators who are conducting innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) as well as to encourage early-career investigators to enter the TTFields research field.

April 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.16

DOGE implements manual review of awarded funds

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