The American Association for Cancer Research has established the AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grant Program.
The Department of Government Efficiency has started requiring HHS grantees to provide justifications in order to receive payouts for already awarded grant money.
NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.”
Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, will resign from the position 16 months before the scheduled end of his six-year term.
The American Association for Cancer Research-Novocure Career Development Award for Cancer Research represents a joint effort to promote and support early-career investigators who are conducting innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) as well as to encourage early-career investigators to enter the TTFields research field.
A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?
Confidential Trump administration budget documents show that the upcoming FY26 Budget Request will radically cut about $50 billion out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reshuffling agency components, and slashing the number of NIH institutes and centers to just eight.
Harvard University lawyers rejected the Trump administration’s demand to change the school’s leadership, student disciplinary policies, admissions and hiring, and end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
The Cancer Research Institute is committing $2.5 million in reserve funding to support an additional postdoctoral fellowships in the face of federal instability.
