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President Barack Obama Feb. 8 unveiled his budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year—a $4.1 trillion spending blueprint that is unlikely to be passed by a Republican-controlled Congress.

The administration’s proposal appears to cut the NIH existing budget by $1 billion in discretionary funding and makes up the difference with mandatory funding.

In a joint snub, the House and Senate budget committees declined to hold a hearing for Shaun Donovan, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. The move marks the first time in 41 years that Congress has refused to review a president’s budget.

	Conversation with The Cancer Letter Sigal: FDA Should Consolidate Cancer Portfolio President Barack Obama’s Feb. 8 budget request for fiscal year 2017 slates $75 million in additional funding for FDA for the creation of a virtual Oncology Center of Excellence. The proposal is arguably the most tangible component of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot program, which aims to double progress in cancer research and drug development over the next five years.
	Slamming the Door – How Al Gilman Taught Texas a Lesson in Science Part III: 18,000 Bosses Between the fall of 2011 and the spring of 2012, I watched MD Anderson from afar, and I didn’t think about CPRIT at all. Friends who attended early meetings with Ronald DePinho soon after he became MD Anderson’s president said that he was literally grading presentations made to him by faculty members and administrators. “This was a C-,” he would say. It was difficult to get a B.
	In Brief Miami Cancer Institute joins MSK Cancer Alliance Ramalingam named deputy director of Winship Cancer Institute David McConkey appointed director of Johns Hopkins Bladder Institute Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center creates two endowed chairs Pat Keel appointed CFO of St. Jude Paul Vanveldhuisen named COO of The Emmes Corporation American Urological Association, Urology Care Foundation and Chesapeake Urology Associates form partnership Bonnie J. Addario Foundation launches second phase of crowdsourcing challenge ESPN’s Jimmy V Week for Cancer Research raises $3.2 million
	Drugs and Targets FDA grants orphan designation to tazemetostat PDS Biotechnology signs CRADA with NCI FDA grants orphan designation to antifungal drug candidate CD101 IV

20160205 - Feb 5, 2016

ISSUE 5 – FEB. 5, 2016

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Slamming the Door

Part II: Cancer’s Butt

CPRIT’s review process appeared to have become a major annoyance to those who wanted to redraft the criteria for dispensing the princely sum of $300 million a year. Texas geography and Texas politics did matter—a lot.

The cross-state competition between MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center proved to be especially important.

MD Anderson has long been a clinical powerhouse, the kind of place you go with a complicated cancer. If it ramped up its basic science, the cancer center would be better positioned to understand the origins of cancer and make more fundamental contributions to treatment of cancers, including discovering useful drug candidates and moving them from the bench to the clinic.

	White House Promises $1 Billion for Cancer MoonshotThe White House announced a $1 billion initiative Feb. 1 to jumpstart the national cancer moonshot program—an ambitious proposal first announced by President Barack Obama during his final State of the Union address. Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer in May 2015 at age 46, is leading the program, which aims to achieve a decade’s worth of progress within the next five years.
	FDA Releases New Opioid Plan as Senators Stall Robert Califf’s Confirmation as Commissioner Robert Califf, the nominee to serve as the next FDA commissioner, and other FDA leaders called for a broad plan to reassess the agency’s approach to prescription opioid medications. The move comes as Senators block a vote on his confirmation for the top post. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont have both placed procedural holds on Califf’s confirmation, citing the agency’s policies and methods for approving opioids, as well as Califf’s financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
	In Brief Lonial named head of hematology and oncology at Winship Cancer Institute Stand Up To Cancer Canada announces brain cancer dream team Keith Hanson McGregor named CEO of ESMO M. Beatriz Currier joins Miami Cancer Institute H. Benjamin Harvey and Courtney Moreno receive ACR fellowship Van Andel Research Institute-SU2C Dream Team trial enters phase II
	Drugs and Targets Venetoclax receives third FDA breakthrough designation FDA tells Telesta they need another phase III MCNA trial Mayo Clinic collaborates with Morphotek in triple-negative breast cancer study.

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ISSUE 4 – JAN. 29, 2016

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Slamming the Door

How Al Gilman Taught Texas A Lesson in Science

Alfred Gilman’s approach to distributing public funds wasn’t particularly difficult to understand: he wanted to pay for the best science available. Period.

The pot of money entrusted to Gilman was vast. In 2007, Texas voters approved the largest investment in cancer research outside the federal government: $3 billion, to be spent over 10 years. By way of comparison, NCI grants going to Texas researchers and institutions added up to $240 million a year. CPRIT more than doubled that money. Only Texans were eligible to apply.

Gilman accepted the CPRIT job at age 68, because he thought that it would be a significant contribution to a major research effort, and a nice way to finish out a long career.

	Sixty-Nine Cancer Centers Urge HPV VaccinationIn an unprecedented move, 69 NCI-designated cancer centers have come together to advocate for HPV vaccination as a preventive measure against many HPV-related cancers. “HPV vaccination is our best defense in stopping HPV infection in our youth and preventing HPV-related cancers in our communities,” the centers said in a consensus statement published Jan. 27. “The HPV vaccine is cancer prevention.”
	PCORI Passes $1.2 Billion in Total Research Funding The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute approved $70 million for nine new patient-centered research projects focused on conditions including ductal carcinoma in situ, diabetes, chronic lung disease and migraines. With these latest awards, PCORI has now approved or awarded more than $1.2 billion in research funding.
	In Brief Minesh Mehta named deputy director at Miami Cancer Institute Carmen Solórzano named chief of Division of Surgical Oncology at Vanderbilt Judy Keen named ASTRO director of scientific affairs Tara Yates joins Wistar Institute as director of communications Ovarian Cancer National Alliance and Ovarian Cancer Research Fund merge UC San Diego Health selects e+CancerCare to operate Chula Vista radiation center Harvard Business School launches Precision Trials Challenge
	Drugs and Targets FDA expands Opdivo-Yervoy Label with accelerated approval in melanoma Halaven approved for unresectable or metastatic liposarcoma Zepatier approved for treatment of chronic hepatitis C

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