Gritstone bio Inc., entered into a clinical trial agreement with NCI to evaluate an autologous T-cell therapy expressing a T-cell receptor targeting mutated KRAS in combination with Gritstone’s KRAS-directed vaccine candidate, SLATE-KRAS, in a phase I study. The study will be led by Steven A. Rosenberg, chief of the surgery branch at NCI’s Center for Cancer Research.
As NIH and NCI funding is negotiated in Congress, Paul W. Thurman felt compelled to crunch some numbers. He compared the U.S.’s cumulative funding for NCI to the funding slated for ICE—the latter of which vastly outweighs the former—and asked whether the funding priorities of the federal government are properly representing the nation’s mortality.
