Harvard University lawyers rejected the Trump administration’s demand to change the school’s leadership, student disciplinary policies, admissions and hiring, and end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
The Cancer Research Institute is committing $2.5 million in reserve funding to support an additional postdoctoral fellowships in the face of federal instability.
The Stephenson Global Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute, established to advance early detection, innovative treatments, and groundbreaking research for pancreatic cancer, has launched a call for nominations and Letters of Intent for two award opportunities.
Global research initiative Cancer Grand Challenges announced on March 5 seven new challenges which it deems to be among the biggest questions in cancer, offering international researchers the chance to form teams to apply for up to $25 million (or £20 million) in funding to take them on.