In a letter addressed to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Republican leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and two of its subcommittees raised questions about the increasing number of clinical trials conducted in China by companies seeking FDA approval for “me-too” checkpoint inhibitor drugs.
Congress settled the FY26 question in February, with NCI receiving $7.352 billion, an increase of $128 million over the prior year. After a year in which cancer center directors spent an extraordinary share of their leadership attention defending the research enterprise, that outcome deserves to be called what it was: a win.
