Fellow, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences; Social media and web outreach officer, The Value in Cancer Care Consortium
Senior physician, Davidoff Cancer Center of Rabin Medical Center; Senior lecturer, Tel Aviv University; Member-at-large, The Value in Cancer Care Consortium
Leon O. Jacobson Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Personalized Therapeutics; Associate director for clinical sciences, The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center; The Value in Cancer Care Consortium
Is the Community Outreach and Engagement mandate the next item on the chopping block as the Trump administration makes its mark on science policy? What about health disparities research?
Being summarily dismissed, denigrated, and divided is both dehumanizing and taking place in a radical and disorienting manner. The effect is traumatizing.
Indirect costs are a component of a grant award that recognizes expenses for a project that, for efficiency’s sake, are aggregated across projects and divided proportionally to projects rather than explicitly charged to each project. They are influenced by location and services provided.
Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services amid many resignations at federal health agencies and cancellations of NIH and NCAB meetings. All of this happened at a time when the Trump administration is reportedly preparing to fire thousands of HHS workers.
Two decades ago, the discovery of the EGFR mutation transformed lung cancer treatment. The finding led to dramatically improved survival rates and ushered in the era of precision medicine and molecular profiling for lung cancer.
Fifty-four years ago, in his State of the Union Message in January 1971, President Nixon proposed a visionary and vigorous new challenge. He said “The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon” should be applied to finding a cure for cancer. He followed up by requesting an appropriation of $100 million, and the promise to ask for whatever additional funds could be effectively used.