With reduced FY24 funding, NCI prepares to make cuts

In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?

April 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Louis Weiner and Taofeek Owonikoko on keeping up morale amid uncertainty
“We are resolute. We are committed to continuing to move the work forward.”

Speaking on The Cancer Letter Podcast, Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko recalled recent conversations with two junior faculty members at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

By Paul Goldberg

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

Confidential Trump administration budget documents show that the upcoming FY26 Budget Request will radically cut about $50 billion out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reshuffling agency components, and slashing the number of NIH institutes and centers to just eight.

NCI summarizes changes to the CCSG NOFO

In an email sent to directors and deputy directors of NCI-designated cancer centers, Krzysztof Ptak, director of the NCI Office of Cancer Centers, provided a comparison between the newly issued Cancer Center Support Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity with the previous version of the document.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Cancer Policy

Trump administration says Harvard funding freezes will spare affiliated hospitals

Harvard University lawyers rejected the Trump administration’s demand to change the school’s leadership, student disciplinary policies, admissions and hiring, and end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Clinical Roundup

Inherited cancer mutations may drive tumor growth, study shows

Most cancer genome studies have focused on mutations in the tumor itself and how such gene variants allow a tumor to grow unchecked. A study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis takes a deep dive into inherited cancer mutations measured in a healthy blood sample and reports how those mutations might take a toll on the body’s cells starting at birth, perhaps predisposing a person to develop cancers at various stages of life.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

With reduced FY24 funding, NCI prepares to make cuts

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In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

The Directors: Louis Weiner and Taofeek Owonikoko on keeping up morale amid uncertainty
“We are resolute. We are committed to continuing to move the work forward.”

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

NCI summarizes changes to the CCSG NOFO

Trump administration says Harvard funding freezes will spare affiliated hospitals

Inherited cancer mutations may drive tumor growth, study shows

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In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

The Directors: Louis Weiner and Taofeek Owonikoko on keeping up morale amid uncertainty“We are resolute. We are committed to continuing to move the work forward.”

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eightNCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

NCI summarizes changes to the CCSG NOFO

Trump administration says Harvard funding freezes will spare affiliated hospitals

Inherited cancer mutations may drive tumor growth, study shows

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The Directors: Louis Weiner and Taofeek Owonikoko on keeping up morale amid uncertainty
“We are resolute. We are committed to continuing to move the work forward.”

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts