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Cover Story
By Claire Dietz and Matthew Bin Han Ong
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas—the second largest publicly-funded granting organization for cancer after NIH—may receive $3 billion more to stay open past its current sunset date in 2023.
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