The Senate Committee on Appropriations June 25 approved the fiscal 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill, which would boost NIH's budget to $32 billion—an increase of $2 billion above fiscal 2015.
The following is a transcript of NCI Acting Director Douglas Lowy's remarks to the joint meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board and the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors, June 24:
Is new money on the way to NCI? It's certainly been promised in President Obama's budget proposal and in the appropriations bills gestating in the House and Senate.
FDA granted Priority Review to MM-398 for the treatment of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas following a gemcitabine-based therapy.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA appointed five members to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
THE BROAD INSTITUTE of MIT and Harvard University will work with Google to explore technical barriers that hinder biomedical research by addressing the need for computing infrastructure to store and process enormous datasets, and by creating tools to analyze such data. The institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit will be offered as a service on Google Cloud... […]
GUARDANT HEALTH has partnered with SWOG on a study to use cell-free DNA testing to identify mechanisms of resistance and future treatment options in non-small cell lung cancer. SWOG chose Guardant360 as the blood test for a tumor genomic profiling study of approximately 600 lung cancer patients. The study will test patients at the time... […]
THE BARBARA ANN KARMANOS Cancer Institute and the Detroit Tigers will host the fourth annual “Pink Out the Park” Sept. 18 at Comerica Park in Detroit, as the Tigers play the Kansas City Royals. The event helps raise funds for breast cancer research at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Delta Air Lines, the official airline of... […]
TheAmerican Association for Cancer Research has launched theAACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research, a funding initiative to stimulate innovative research from young investigators.
THE CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION of the American Society of Clinical Oncology honored six oncology practices from throughout the U.S. with its 2015 Clinical Trials Participation Awards during the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. The CTPA was first awarded in 2003 to recognize community-based practices for excellence in implementing high-quality clinical trials programs and to also... […]
