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.
Richard M. Simon, NCI biostatistician who likely set a record for the number of first-authored papers, and whose interests included country music, horseback riding and ballroom dancing, died May 9, at age 80. Simon joined NCI in 1974.
NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell joined the NIH director and four other institute directors in a May 23 Senate subcommittee hearing to craft the Labor-HHS spending bill for fiscal year 2025.
Cancer center communicators—public relations, marketing, and communications experts—are indispensable players in the implementation of the National Cancer Plan, said Peter Garrett, director of NCI’s Office of Communications and Public Liaison.
Tumor heterogeneity is a well-recognized hurdle to successful cancer therapy, often leading to resistance and treatment failure.
NCI has renewed MUSC Hollings Cancer Center’s five-year Cancer Center Support Grant, with an overall rating of “outstanding.”
An analysis by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer casts doubt on validity of an endpoint used in key studies of multi-cancer detection tests.
With NCI funding expected to remain flat through fiscal year 2025, health professionals and leaders in oncology should use this time to amp up institutional efforts to collaborate and rebuild trust in science, NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell said.
To address inequities in cancer health, NCI is collaborating with a diverse team of experts and cancer center directors—named the Cancer Equity Leaders (CEL)—to learn from communities and inform workforce development as well as outreach initiatives.
NCI is lowering paylines for R01 grants for established and new investigators to the 10th percentile, down from the 12th percentile in FY23.
