Most NIH activities will cease immediately if government shuts down

Anthony Letai pledges to ensure stability for extramural and intramural cancer science

Stepping into the NCI director’s job at the end of a nerve-racking year, Anthony Letai wants you to know that the federal government is not going out of the business of cancer research.

In first NCAB director’s report, Anthony Letai focuses on centralized grant review, budget outlook

Anthony G. Letai’s initiation as the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute wasn’t exactly smooth.

Pazdur leaves FDA after 25-year career that shaped the agency’s oncology regulations
BIO calls for the end of “constant turmoil,” urges the administration to “right the ship”

After three weeks of brutal combat, Richard Pazdur decided that he has had enough.

Vinay Prasad to CBER employees: “It is not wise for FDA to further pollute the scientific literature with papers we cannot defend”

Vinay Prasad, FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer and director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has instructed his staff to check with him before continuing to work on ongoing submissions to journals or beginning new contract-funded projects to “ensure that we are not engaging in sunk cost fallacy, not publishing obviously erroneous work, and not being distracted from our core mission.”

FDA releases draft guidance on reducing testing on non-human primates for monoclonal antibodies

FDA issued a draft guidance on Dec. 2, outlining specific product types for which the FDA believes six-month non-human primate toxicity testing can be eliminated or reduced.

Trump administration puts new restrictions on federal student loan borrowing

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” includes new restrictions on federal student loan borrowing that the Trump administration says are aimed at driving down the cost of graduate education. However, critics of the change say that the reduced access to low-interest federal loans will further reduce the accessibility of graduate and professional degrees.

December 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.44

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Most NIH activities will cease immediately if government shuts down

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Most NIH activities will cease immediately if government shuts down

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Anthony Letai pledges to ensure stability for extramural and intramural cancer science

In first NCAB director’s report, Anthony Letai focuses on centralized grant review, budget outlook

Pazdur leaves FDA after 25-year career that shaped the agency’s oncology regulationsBIO calls for the end of “constant turmoil,” urges the administration to “right the ship”

Vinay Prasad to CBER employees: “It is not wise for FDA to further pollute the scientific literature with papers we cannot defend”

FDA releases draft guidance on reducing testing on non-human primates for monoclonal antibodies

Trump administration puts new restrictions on federal student loan borrowing

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Pazdur leaves FDA after 25-year career that shaped the agency’s oncology regulations
BIO calls for the end of “constant turmoil,” urges the administration to “right the ship”