THREE INVESTIGATORS were named recipients of the 2015 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The award recognizes investigators age 45 or younger for their efforts in advancing cancer research.
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.
