UCSD receives $16M NIH FIRST Award to recruit 12 diverse, early-career researchers

Senators slam Bhattacharya for deflecting responsibility for NIH cuts, upheaval
Susan Collins: Trump’s 40% cut is “so disturbing”

In a 96-minute hearing in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Trump administration’s budget, senators slammed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya for not taking responsibility for the funding cuts to research and upheaval at NIH.

June 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.23

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

In “Bethesda Declaration,” NIH employees, Nobel laureates say Bhattacharya is favoring politics over U.S. science, health

NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya “prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources,” a group of Nobel laureates and over 300 NIH employees wrote in a letter.

AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, brain cancer survivor, says NIH research saved his life

In November 2024, Bobby Mukkamala was giving a routine talk to a group of physicians and medical students when his language suddenly became garbled. For a minute or two, he stopped making any sense.

George Sigounas named the first-ever chief science advisor at NCI

George Sigounas, an expert in bone marrow transplantation, was named to the newly created post of chief science advisor at NCI.

June 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.22

By Paul Goldberg

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Thomas J. Lynch Jr. and Howard A. “Skip” Burris III lead two institutions that couldn’t be more different—an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center on one side of the country and a for-profit research enterprise on the other—but they stay up at nights worrying about the same thing.

Grilled by Congress, Kennedy defends NIH and NCI budget cuts, freezes, and RIFs
To avoid “offending” pharma, NCI doesn’t study the causes of early-onset colon cancer, HHS secretary incorrectly alleges

In back-to-back congressional hearings earlier this week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the massive staff and budget cuts over which he has presided during his nearly four months on the job as well as even bigger cuts still looming on the horizon are a part of a single plan.

May 16, 2025

Vol.51 No.19

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Claire Marie Porter

UCSD receives $16M NIH FIRST Award to recruit 12 diverse, early-career researchers

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Senators slam Bhattacharya for deflecting responsibility for NIH cuts, upheaval
Susan Collins: Trump’s 40% cut is “so disturbing”

The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Grilled by Congress, Kennedy defends NIH and NCI budget cuts, freezes, and RIFs
To avoid “offending” pharma, NCI doesn’t study the causes of early-onset colon cancer, HHS secretary incorrectly alleges