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By Matthew Bin Han Ong
NCI will bump up the budget for its Research Project Grant pool by $100 million in 2018—the largest increase to the institute's RPG pool since 2003, NCI Director Norman “Ned” Sharpless said at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago.
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The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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