In Brief


Funding Opportunities
Clinical Roundup
Drugs & Targets
Trending Stories
- NIH eliminates the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors
Over its 28 year history, BSA shaped NCI-funded extramural science - Trump administration is removing the mainstays of NCI and the federal government’s cancer program
Peer review, registries, and evidence-based patient information take a big hit - Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBER
An oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies - George Weiner: Cancer centers are special, as are site visits in CCSG review
- Vinay Prasad, oncologist and Twitter star, locked in debate over precision medicine
- $180M in NCI grants have been terminated by Trump administration, systematic review finds