President Biden has been describing the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a DARPA-like biomedical research agency, as the centerpiece of his effort to “end cancer as we know it.”
Congress needs to increase the FY22 base budgets of NIH and NCI by $3.2 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively, over FY21 levels, the American Association for Cancer Research said in its 2021 Cancer Progress Report.
Women who report sexual misconduct to NIH may find that their complaints have a limited shelf life—these complaints may become null, or at least ineligible for “even a cursory review” once perpetrators cut ties with NIH.
A Congressional letter is asking NIH to describe the procedures employed for rooting out sexual misconduct committed by advisors.
Institutions will be required to report sexual misconduct to NIH if House committee bill becomes law
Institutions receiving NIH funds through grants or cooperative agreements would be required—by federal law—to notify the NIH director when a principal investigator or other key personnel are removed or disciplined for “harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions.”
A House appropriations subcommittee voted to increase NIH’s FY2022 budget by $6.5 billion—to $46.43 billion—which falls $2.5 billion short of President Joe Biden’s request for NIH.
The FY22 budget proposed by the White House doesn’t include sufficient funds to sustainably support NCI researchers, even though the proposal includes the largest ever funding increase for NIH, the American Association for Cancer Research said in a letter to House appropriators.
NCI needs more funding to increase its low success rate of NCI-funded grant applications, David A. Tuveson said in testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations.
A measure that authorizes the FDA to mandate companies developing cancer drugs for adults to also study their products in children when there is a matching molecular target was introduced in the House and Senate earlier this week.
The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would fund the Department of Health and Human Services through 2017, including the NIH, NCI and other related agencies.
