As trust in scientific and regulatory institutions frays and the meaning of “gold standard science” is increasingly contested, cancer research faces a credibility test of its own.
Earlier this month, NCI released a new Cancer Center Support Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity. Except for the elimination of the Plan to Enhance Diversity component and lengthening of the Shared Resource write-ups from three to six pages, the guidelines are essentially unchanged.
New Year’s Eve approaches, and with it, a chance to turn a new leaf with renewed energy, to reflect on—or perhaps, in the case of 2025, bemoan—the events of the year, and, most importantly, to celebrate.
Angelo de Claro was named acting director of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence, following Richard Pazdur’s departure from that position—and the agency (The Cancer Letter, Dec. 5, 2025).
Harvey A. Risch, professor emeritus and senior research scientist at Yale School of Public Health, was named chair of the President’s Cancer Panel.
Wafik S. El-Deiry, director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, shared a message with his colleagues on Dec. 15—the Monday following a mass shooting that took place, killing two and injuring nine, according to reports.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has agreed to pay $15 million to the U.S. government in a settlement to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, Dana-Farber violated the False Claims Act by “using fraudulent images in grant applications and research articles to induce the NIH to pay millions of dollars to support research at Dana-Farber.”
The U.S. Senate didn’t take up the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act after two Senate members—Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)— voted “Nay,” blocking it.
In a joint letter, 148 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are urging the Department of Education topreserve nursing as a “professional” degree—a categorization that gives students greater access to federal loans.
HHS has cut millions of dollars in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
