Brian Druker has some awesome jobs to fill.
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program is offering $25 million to support innovative, high-impact cancer research. This program is administered by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command through the Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs.
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES elected 84 new members in recognition of their achievements in original research. The academy also elected 21 foreign associates from 15 countries. Foreign associates are nonvoting members from outside the U.S.
DWAIN MORRIS is leaving his job as vice president and chief financial officer of MD Anderson Cancer Center to become the chief financial officer for DiabetesAmerica, a multisite provider of comprehensive diabetes care.
Relying on Staff ScientistsAccording to the paper, laboratories in the U.S. haven't relied on staff scientists, in part because they command higher salaries than trainees and postdocs.
The assumption that growth in research funding would be sustained indefinitely has created an “unsustainable hypercompetitive system” heading toward “long-term decline,” a group of scientists, including NCI Director Harold Varmus, wrote in a paper published in the April 22 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The questions submitted by the advocates follow:
ABRAMS: You are right that we do not want to see trials that a lot of time and effort has been put into, and patients have joined, and then don't meet their enrollment goals. We have to do more, and we've recognized that.
ABRAMS: OK, so I understand a little bit differently what you intended now.
NCI officials said they plan to hold a series of meetings with clinical trials group chairs and group financial officers in order to fine-tune the new National Clinical Trials Network.
