The latest notice of a funding opportunity for the Cancer Center Support Grants released by NCI no longer requires submission of a Plan to Enhance Diversity.
How are cancer centers in two rural states—Kansas and South Carolina—weathering the challenges of Trump-era belt-tightening and uncertainty? Their directors weigh in on The Cancer Letter Podcast.
Nearly 30 years ago, while completing an assignment for his master’s degree in public health, Brian Rivers discovered he had a family history of prostate cancer.
In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss the “doomsday scenario” facing academic cancer centers that would follow the success of President Trump’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions.
Rooting out the “illegal and immoral discrimination” of DEI is the first order of business for Trump
Surprised was the last thing anyone should claim to be as the Trump administration, on its first day, smashed the federal government’s diversity equity and inclusion offices, literally sending employees who administer these programs packing and making plans for their prompt firing.
The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital has appointed a trio of physicians and researchers to oversee the center’s first Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion: Eloise Chapman-Davis, Minerva A. Romero Arenas, and Monica L. Guzman.
So far in 2024, 516 anti-queer bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, part of a coordinated effort where bills getting traction in one state are soon parroted by legislators in others.
Directors of NCI-designated cancer centers are facing a new set of challenges in a polarizing, high-stakes election year.
Christopher Li, the Helen G. Edson Endowed Chair for Breast Cancer Research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, understands what it means to be an underrepresented minority at each stage of his academic career.
Eliseo F. Castillo was named associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
