H. Jean Khoury, an expert in hematologic malignancies at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, died May 22, after a year spent battling cancer. He was 50.
Photo by Gage SkidmoreThe White House has proposed cutting $7.2 billion from the NIH budget, with $1.2 billion coming out of NCI—a proposal that, if supported by Congress, would eviscerate the cancer research enterprise in the United States, critics say.
When Amy Reed enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania medical school in 2001, she could not have possibly imagined that she would save more lives as a patient than as a physician.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University earned the comprehensive cancer center designation.Effective immediately, Winship becomes the newest NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in the nation. The number of comprehensive cancer centers now goes up to 48. There are also 14 clinical centers and seven basic research centers.Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University earned the comprehensive cancer center designation.
Steering clear of metaphors that stem from military campaigns and space travel, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is planning to spend $7 billion over six years for an expansion of clinical and research programs.
Former NCI director John Niederhuber is keeping relatively calm about the White House plan to slash the NIH budget.
It's possible that there were pianos that Bob Comis didn't like.
The FDA Oncology Center of Excellence occupied a special place in the Obama White House moonshot program.
MD Anderson, through its Shared Governance Committee, is moving away from an “autocratic” structure, said Julie Izzo, chair of the Faculty Senate and an associate professor in Translational Molecular Pathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
If enacted, the proposed budget reduction of $5.8 billion to the National Institutes of Health will slow research, deprive patients afflicted with cancer of hope, and deliver a devastating blow to our science workforce and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This proposed reduction directly counters the wisdom of the U.S. Congress, who less than a year ago overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century Cures Act.
