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Cover Story
NCI Director's Report
The pace of innovation in oncology has made U.S. cancer researchers prime targets for foreign state-sponsored programs aimed at diverting intellectual property.
In Brief
![In Brief](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03155624/in-brief-3.jpg)
![In Brief](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03155624/in-brief-3.jpg)
Funding Opportunities
Clinical Roundup
![Clinical Roundup](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03161627/clinical_roundup.jpg)
![Clinical Roundup](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03161627/clinical_roundup.jpg)
Drugs & Targets
![Drugs & Targets](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03161633/targets2.jpg)
![Drugs & Targets](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03161633/targets2.jpg)
Trending Stories
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- Lei Zheng named executive director of Mays Cancer Center
- Murphy, McKay, Nodora, Ballantyne, Stupack named associate directors at UCSD Moores
- How Beth Carner went from six weeks left to live with stage 4 colon cancer to complete remission
- Infections are a major cause of death in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy
Meta-analysis focused on causes of death, excluding relapse, recurrence - NCI’s new chief data scientist Warren Kibbe tells us about efforts to get “AI-ready”
“All research now involves data science at some level.”