

Cover Story
By Jordan Williams and Matthew Bin Han Ong
When the Senate Committee on Appropriations marked up the fiscal 2019 spending bill, NIH came out ahead—$2 billion ahead.
In Brief
Clinical Roundup


Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials


NCI Trials for June
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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