The governing board of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved over $90 million in cancer research and prevention grants at its quarterly meeting on Feb. 15. The slate of forty projects from across Texas fund a wide range of research and prevention efforts at major research hubs like Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, but also invests in rapidly developing cancer research programs in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley.
Two Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have published a “framework” for reforming NIH—consolidating the agency’s 27 institutes and centers into 15—arguing that a fundamental rethinking of NIH’s structure would fix what they describe as a “system rife with stagnant leadership, as well as research duplication, gaps, and misconduct.”
