Letai: Perceptions aside, money is flowing and the cancer research infrastructure is sturdy NCI expects record-breaking spending on extramural research

California state-funded institute scraps selection process that put cancer projects at a disadvantage
Cancer researchers are resubmitting applications to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a state agency tasked with awarding billions of dollars of scientific funding for stem cell and gene therapy, has rescinded a controversial policy that was disrupting the flow of funding to cancer research.

President’s budget request would cap indirect costs and fully fund all NIH research projects upfront

NCI has emerged relatively unscathed in the president’s FY 2027 budget request that would slash $15.8 billion from HHS funding, cut NIH overall by about 10%, eliminate three NIH institutes and centers, and move the Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and its circa $1 billion budget out of NIH.

April 10, 2026

Vol.52 No.14

By Claire Marie Porter and Jacquelyn Cobb

Cancer Policy

NCI slated to get a $9 million raise as Trump’s budget proposes about 10% cut for NIH

Budgets can surprise you, and the White House budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 is more surprising than most.

April 03, 2026

Vol.52 No.13

By Paul Goldberg

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Wistar’s Altieri and ChristianaCare’s Petrelli say partnership of their institutions will go on as the guard changes

Leadership is changing at The Wistar Institute and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute in the months to come—but the leaders of the two institutions say that this will have little if any effect on the clinical-research collaboration that they have spent the past 15years building (The Cancer Letter, July 12, 2019).

March 27, 2026

Vol.52 No.12

By Sara Willa Ernst and Paul Goldberg

Podcast

At a jam-packed NCAB meeting, cancer vaccines and site visits take center stage

Last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter was dominated by one event: the meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board, the group of experts which advises and assists the NCI director on the activities of the National Cancer Program.

March 25, 2026

NCI

Hoping to hit a $200M target, NCI and FNIH develop a plan for advancing cancer vaccines
NCI Director Letai: “How aggressive can we be?”

A public-private effort, spearheaded by NCI Director Anthony Letai, and led by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, is working to speed up the development of therapeutic cancer vaccines.

March 20, 2026

Vol.52 No.11

By Claire Marie Porter

Letai: Perceptions aside, money is flowing and the cancer research infrastructure is sturdy

NCI expects record-breaking spending on extramural research

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Letai: Perceptions aside, money is flowing and the cancer research infrastructure is sturdy

NCI expects record-breaking spending on extramural research

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California state-funded institute scraps selection process that put cancer projects at a disadvantageCancer researchers are resubmitting applications to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

President’s budget request would cap indirect costs and fully fund all NIH research projects upfront

NCI slated to get a $9 million raise as Trump’s budget proposes about 10% cut for NIH

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Hoping to hit a $200M target, NCI and FNIH develop a plan for advancing cancer vaccinesNCI Director Letai: “How aggressive can we be?”

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California state-funded institute scraps selection process that put cancer projects at a disadvantage
Cancer researchers are resubmitting applications to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Hoping to hit a $200M target, NCI and FNIH develop a plan for advancing cancer vaccines
NCI Director Letai: “How aggressive can we be?”