John Turchi, a researcher at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from NCI to develop a drug that could make radiation therapy far more effective.
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
