Amid the gridlock that has seized Washington, NCI faces a grim and disturbing FY2024, the institute’s Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy said at the annual meeting of the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
With just days left before the end of September, and with it, the end of fiscal year 2023, NCI officials are preparing for rough times, both in the short term and long term.
VCU Massey Cancer Center has changed its name to VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center in recognition of its recent comprehensive status from NCI (The Cancer Letter, May 31, 2023).
Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center can now add the word “Comprehensive” to its logo.
Shelton “Shelley” Earp said he will step down as director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center effective June 2024.
Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has earned a Merit Extension Award from NCI.
Progress against cancer, as brought about by high quality academic cancer centers, requires individual excellence from experts who apply distinct, highly specific skill sets to a common goal within the cancer center. The cancer center coordinates and supports these efforts.
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE), now augmented with the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED), is critical and central to the impact of NCI-designated cancer centers, and both are set forth as required components for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).
The Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is in imminent danger of losing its Comprehensive designation, and members of the center’s External Advisory Board are urging the leadership of the parent institution to act fast.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has been granted a two-year merit extension of its Cancer Center Support Grant from NCI. The grant is MSK’s oldest and largest, and the one which provides its designation as one of 53 Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationwide.
