The Innovative Medicines Initiative, a joint undertaking of the European Union and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, launched OPTIMA, a €21.3 million public-private research program that will seek to use artificial intelligence to improve care for patients with prostate, breast, and lung cancer.
In recent months, several directors of cancer centers, appearing on The Directors, a segment of The Cancer Letter Podcast, mentioned that their institutions are increasingly providing small grants—typically in the range of $50,000—to scientists to enable them to keep their labs open.
