HAROLD VARMUS, director of the NCI and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for research into the genetic basis of cancer, received the Medal of Honour from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France.
While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.
