Harrington Discovery Institute at UH and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine open call for 2023 Harrington-MSTP Scholar Award

CPRIT awards $67M in research grants to Texas institutions

The governing body of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved 53 grants totaling more than $67 million to state research institutions to advance the state’s fight against cancer. The grants provide funding for a wide array of cancer projects, including CPRIT Scholar recruitment awards, funding for collaborative core facilities, and support for cancer clinical trials.

February 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.07

Podcast

In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%, HHS agencies webpages removed

In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss the “doomsday scenario” facing academic cancer centers that would follow the success of President Trump’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions.

February 14, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

White House

Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions
The move could gut academic cancer research

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Feb. 10, issued a preliminary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from enforcing an NIH guidance that would cut the indirect costs paid on NIH grants to a flat rate of 15%.

UCLA awarded $1.72M NIH grant to train brain cancer scientists

Investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $1.72 million grant from NIH to support the Neuro-Oncology Translational Research Training Program, an initiative designed to train the next generation of brain tumor scientists and physician-scientists.

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

In Brief

Wistar receives $600,000 grant to expand apprenticeship programs

The Wistar Institute’s Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Education and Training Center is expanding its apprenticeship programs and bolstering job opportunities in the life science sector based on a recent $600,000 PASmart Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

White House

Tracking Trump’s early impact on cancer policy
Research and care disrupted, NCI programs face unpredictable future

The Trump administration did exactly what it said it would do to disorient anyone involved in making policy or touched by it. The president and his crew have “flooded the zone”—the term and the image are theirs, as is the strategy of dropping a flurry of executive orders and memoranda that shake the foundations of the American system of government, raising questions of legality and constitutionality, and, above all, making it a challenge for anyone to see the entire picture and think strategically.

January 31, 2025

Vol.51 No.04

By Paul Goldberg

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Harrington Discovery Institute at UH and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine open call for 2023 Harrington-MSTP Scholar Award

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CPRIT awards $67M in research grants to Texas institutions

In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%, HHS agencies webpages removed

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UCLA awarded $1.72M NIH grant to train brain cancer scientists

Wistar receives $600,000 grant to expand apprenticeship programs

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Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions
The move could gut academic cancer research

Tracking Trump’s early impact on cancer policy
Research and care disrupted, NCI programs face unpredictable future