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By Alexandria Carolan and Paul Goldberg
Budget increases in 2020 enabled NCI to boost funding for research project grants, pushing the payline up by two percentage points from last year's level.
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
In Brief


Clinical Roundup


Drugs & Targets


NCI Trials


NCI Trials for September 2020
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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