Sanya A. Springfield will join the Office of the NCI Director as an acting deputy director, charged with broadening and strengthening cancer health equity and inclusion programs, effective in the coming weeks.
NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell has released her professional judgment budget proposal, requesting nearly $11.5 billion—the same amount as last year’s proposal prepared by her predecessor, Monica Bertagnolli.
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Intel received a five-year, $3.7 million NCI grant for a multi-site study developing a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence approach—called federated learning—which aims to improve breast cancer risk prediction and reduce health inequities in cancer prevention care.
Michele CarboneHaining YangMichele Carbone and Haining Yang, researchers at the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, received a $2.5 million NCI grant to advance mesothelioma research by improving diagnosis and treatment for the disease.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to provide significant increases to federal health agencies in fiscal year 2025, including raises of nearly $2 billion for NIH and $270 million for NCI.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center and the University of Kansas Health System received $20 million in new federal investments.
To help accelerate research into new treatments for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is partnering with NCI on the myeloMATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) precision medicine umbrella trial.
Kate Choi grew up hearing conversations about skin cancer. Her grandparents had it, as did her cousins.
Cancer centers that continue to experience pandemic-induced shortages in staffing their clinical research enterprise may soon be able to rely on support from NCI’s Virtual Clinical Trials Office to open studies and accrue patients.
