MIB Agents accepting applications for annual OutSmarting Osteosarcoma research grants

In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?

April 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

Confidential Trump administration budget documents show that the upcoming FY26 Budget Request will radically cut about $50 billion out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reshuffling agency components, and slashing the number of NIH institutes and centers to just eight.

Trump administration says Harvard funding freezes will spare affiliated hospitals

Harvard University lawyers rejected the Trump administration’s demand to change the school’s leadership, student disciplinary policies, admissions and hiring, and end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Clinical

Only half of adolescents and young adults with cancer get fertility counseling before treatment
Oncofertility consult is an oft-overlooked standard of care

For a year before an osteosarcoma was found in her right proximal tibia, Sammy Ulloa, pushing through pain, persisted with her training as a Division I track and field and cross-country competitor.

April 11, 2025

Vol.51 No.14

By Claire Marie Porter

Podcast

In The Headlines: Private funding can’t replace federal funding—but it can help

In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.

April 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.13

In Brief

Cancer Research Institute commits $2.5M to fund postdoc fellowships

The Cancer Research Institute is committing $2.5 million in reserve funding to support an additional postdoctoral fellowships in the face of federal instability.

March 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.12

MIB Agents accepting applications for annual OutSmarting Osteosarcoma research grants

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In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eightNCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

Trump administration says Harvard funding freezes will spare affiliated hospitals

Only half of adolescents and young adults with cancer get fertility counseling before treatmentOncofertility consult is an oft-overlooked standard of care

In The Headlines: Private funding can’t replace federal funding—but it can help

Cancer Research Institute commits $2.5M to fund postdoc fellowships

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Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

Only half of adolescents and young adults with cancer get fertility counseling before treatment
Oncofertility consult is an oft-overlooked standard of care