

Cover Story
Audit: Lynda Chin's abandoned $62 million IBM Watson collaboration didn't follow standard procedures
By Paul Goldberg and Matthew Bin Han Ong
An audit of an abandoned mega-project run by IBM Watson and MD Anderson Cancer Center found that the Houston-based institution skirted the UT System's procurement regulations as it spent $62.1 million on an ill-fated artificial intelligence system.
In Brief


Funding Opportunities
Drugs & Targets
Trending Stories
- Franco Muggia, former head of CTEP and NYU cancer center, dies at 85
- Knight Cancer Institute receives record-setting $2B gift from the Knights—and self-governance within OHSU
Brian Druker returns to executive role as president of the new Knight Cancer Group - House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts - Bhattacharya fields NCAB’s questions about funding, political involvement in grant review, DEI, animal testing
- Lowy: Forward-funding policy forced NCI to drastically reduce RPG awards funded for FY25, 10% of NCI staff has been lost
- Robert A. Winn on his new vision to train cancer center leaders: “I had a big bold idea and an ‘Aha!’ moment.”