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Montefiore Einstein’s lung cancer team earns international recognition

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Vol.51 No.33

In Brief

2025 Lasker awards announced

Top row (left to right): Dirk Görlich, Steven L. McKnight, Michael J. Welsh.Bottom row (left to right): Jesús (Tito) González, Paul A. Negulescu, Lucy ShapiroThe 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award honors went to two scientists for discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences.

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Vol.51 No.33

Podcast

On Capitol Hill, NIH gets congressional support and RFK Jr. gets slammed

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.

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Vol.51 No.32

Capitol Hill

House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

The House is on track to join the Senate in rejecting the Trump administration’s budget proposal that would cut NIH by $18 billion.

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Vol.51 No.32

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

Guest Editorial

Curing cancer or curbing immigration: A question of national morality and priority

In December 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and declared a “War on Cancer.” In the past 54 years, the U.S. has invested $180 billion nominally, or approximately $322 billion when adjusted for inflation, in cancer research. This investment has paid dividends with more than 100 anticancer drugs brought to market in half a century—virtually all traceable to National Cancer Institute funding.

Trump administration unlawfully terminated grants from Harvard, federal judge rules

A federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration’s move to cut research funding to Harvard University was illegal—restoring more than $2 billion and all future grants to the institution.

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Vol.51 No.32

By Sara Willa Ernst

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House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
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