ASCO, ACS CAN urge Congress to increase federal funding for cancer research

ASCO seeks to engage new leaders of NIH, CMS, and FDA

The Association for Clinical Oncology has reached out to the new leaders of federal health agencies to ensure continued progress in cancer care, research, and patient access, the organization said.

April 25, 2025

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Cancer Policy

DOGE implements manual review of awarded funds

The Department of Government Efficiency has started requiring HHS grantees to provide justifications in order to receive payouts for already awarded grant money.

April 25, 2025

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Cancer Policy

NIH notice prohibits grant awardees from operating programs that promote DEI

NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.”

April 25, 2025

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Cancer Policy

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan to resign

Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, will resign from the position 16 months before the scheduled end of his six-year term.

April 25, 2025

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Claire Marie Porter

Podcast

In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?

April 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

Confidential Trump administration budget documents show that the upcoming FY26 Budget Request will radically cut about $50 billion out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reshuffling agency components, and slashing the number of NIH institutes and centers to just eight.

April 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

By Paul Goldberg

ASCO, ACS CAN urge Congress to increase federal funding for cancer research

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ASCO, ACS CAN urge Congress to increase federal funding for cancer research

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ASCO seeks to engage new leaders of NIH, CMS, and FDA

DOGE implements manual review of awarded funds

NIH notice prohibits grant awardees from operating programs that promote DEI

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan to resign

In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eightNCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts

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Trump administration seeks to slash NIH by roughly 40% as 27 institutes and centers are whittled down to eight
NCI to remain intact, but its finances are uncertain; FDA is spared big cuts