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Candace S. Johnson leads America’s oldest cancer research center and Jonathan W. Friedberg leads the newest NCI-designated center. Their catchment areas are contiguous, their faculty and staff members collaborate often, and together their institutions embody the culture of NCI-designated cancer centers.

In “Bethesda Declaration,” NIH employees, Nobel laureates say Bhattacharya is favoring politics over U.S. science, health

NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya “prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources,” a group of Nobel laureates and over 300 NIH employees wrote in a letter.

AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, brain cancer survivor, says NIH research saved his life

In November 2024, Bobby Mukkamala was giving a routine talk to a group of physicians and medical students when his language suddenly became garbled. For a minute or two, he stopped making any sense.

Kennedy: “We’re going to end the war at FDA against alternative medicine”

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. asserted that under his leadership, FDA will “end the war” against alternative medicine.

George Sigounas named the first-ever chief science advisor at NCI

George Sigounas, an expert in bone marrow transplantation, was named to the newly created post of chief science advisor at NCI.

ALT GOV: The HHS “resistance” on social media

After a sequence of events that unfolded publicly on NCI’s Instagram feed May 28, RIFed and “retired” members of the NCI communications team took to the independent social media platform BlueSky, creating an alternative and anonymous social media presence.

June 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.22

By Claire Marie Porter

Senators slam Bhattacharya for deflecting responsibility for NIH cuts, upheaval

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In “Bethesda Declaration,” NIH employees, Nobel laureates say Bhattacharya is favoring politics over U.S. science, health

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Kennedy: “We’re going to end the war at FDA against alternative medicine”

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Directors of two neighboring cancer centers in Upstate New York will face challenges, but “we’ll get through it”