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.
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.
As he addressed FDA employees, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described the Trump era as a “generational opportunity to make the regulatory agency live up to its foundational ideals” and emerge from the morass of what he described as the “deep state.”
Immunotherapy has changed the course of blood cancers and melanomas, but is stubbornly ineffective for the treatment of most epithelial solid cancers—the cancers that kill about 90% of the more than 600,000 Americans who die of cancer each year.
A diagnosis of cancer brings with it fear and uncertainty. Changes proposed by the Trump administration pose a grave new risk to those who suffer from cancer today or will suffer from cancer in the future. A future which was increasingly optimistic is suddenly far more threatening.
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 American Association for Cancer Research will honor the following cancer researchers and physician-scientists during the AACR Annual Meeting 2025, to be held April 25-30 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago.
