The Association for Clinical Oncology has reached out to the new leaders of federal health agencies to ensure continued progress in cancer care, research, and patient access, the organization said.
The Department of Government Efficiency has started requiring HHS grantees to provide justifications in order to receive payouts for already awarded grant money.
NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.”
Federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, DC, blocked the Trump administration from following through on threats to cut off funding to universities that engage in DEI efforts.
Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, will resign from the position 16 months before the scheduled end of his six-year term.
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.
John Burklow, a near-40-year veteran of NIH, will work his last day as chief of staff on April 25.
On April 15, President Trump signed a wide-ranging executive order that aims to lower drug prices, boost transparency into fees charged by middlemen, and limit Medicare payments for outpatient services provided by 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.
The latest notice of a funding opportunity for the Cancer Center Support Grants released by NCI no longer requires submission of a Plan to Enhance Diversity.



