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UT San Antonio awarded $44M NIH contract to advance landmark RURAL Cohort Study

The University of Texas at San Antonio has been awarded a five-year, $44 million contract from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a study focused on persistent health challenges in the rural South.

May 01, 2026

Vol.52 No.17

NCI

At AACR, Letai announces prevention and screening project for southern Appalachia, describes a future without paylines
There’s “clear evidence that funding is moving and the system is working.”

Tucked in at the end of a 20-minute talk that covered paylines, promising young investigators, and precision medicine, NCI Director Anthony G. Letai beefed up the alliteration with two more words that begin with a “p”: prevention and pilot.

April 24, 2026

Vol.52 No.16

By Sara Willa Ernst

Cancer History Project Editorial

Calabresi’s “Cancer at a Crossroads” report was the first step toward historic doubling of the NIH budget
Fox Chase’s Winn contemplates Crossroads 2.0

At a lecture at Yale Cancer Center recently, Robert A. Winn brandished a copy of a 32-year old booklet titled “Cancer at a Crossroads: A Report to Congress for the Nation,” using it as a show-and-tell prop in arguing that America’s cancer program is once again at a crossroads and therefore in urgent need of strategic thinking (The Cancer Letter, April 10, 2026).

Health groups urge Bhattacharya, in his position of acting CDC director, to restore staff in the Office on Smoking and Health

A coalition of public health groups sent a formal letter to NIH Director and Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya April 15 highlighting the need for the immediate restoration of full staffing and resources to the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health.

Cancer Center at Illinois is recognized as NCI Basic Cancer Center, becoming the first new institution to earn this designation in 40 years

The Cancer Center at Illinois was designated as a Basic Cancer Center by NCI.

April 17, 2026

Vol.52 No.15

In Brief

Christian Hinrichs, of Rutgers Cancer Institute & RWJBarnabas Health, receives V Foundation for Cancer Research award

Christian Hinrichs, co-director of the Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Cancer Immunology and Metabolism Center of Excellence and chief of the Section of Cancer Immunotherapy, RWJBarnabas Health, has been awarded a four-year, $800,000 translational research grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to develop next-generation immunotherapies for cancers caused by human papillomavirus.

April 17, 2026

Vol.52 No.15

Steven Libutti tells us about building a $900 million cancer hospital for Rutgers RWJBarnabas Health

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At AACR, Letai announces prevention and screening project for southern Appalachia, describes a future without paylines
There’s “clear evidence that funding is moving and the system is working.”

Calabresi’s “Cancer at a Crossroads” report was the first step toward historic doubling of the NIH budget
Fox Chase’s Winn contemplates Crossroads 2.0