Changes at Mission Control notwithstanding, the new Cancer Moonshot is ready for liftoff, says Danielle Carnival, coordinator of the White House cancer initiative.
President Joe Biden’s new national goal for the reignited Cancer Moonshot—to cut today’s age-adjusted cancer mortality rates by at least 50% before 2050—is bold, but achievable, said NCI Director Ned Sharpless.
NCI has issued a Request for Information seeking input from developers of multi-cancer early detection liquid biopsy tests, with the goal of launching an NCI-sponsored randomized controlled screening clinical trial of these tools.
Fifty years ago, the National Cancer Act was signed into law, providing the National Cancer Institute with new authority to expand discoveries in basic, clinical, and translational science, which included building a nationwide network of cancer centers to treat thousands of patients each day.
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors approved 11 new and reissued concepts at a joint meeting of the BSA and the National Cancer Advisory Board Dec. 7-9.
To accurately gauge the impact of the National Cancer Act of 1971 at the half-century point, Abbe R. Gluck and Charles S. Fuchs decided to focus on more than the science of cancer.
NCI is temporarily reducing its paylines as the federal government is being funded at FY2021 levels via another continuing resolution, delaying the budgeting process for most federal agencies in the new fiscal year.
A $25 million gift from life sciences entrepreneur and investor Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Almudena, will support the development of Brown University’s recently launched cancer center.
Every cancer center seeking to obtain (or keep) an NCI designation will soon have to present a plan for increasing the diversity of their faculty and workforce.
DEI Network founders: Let’s work together to increase diversity across all cancer centers in America
Christopher Li and Wendy Law, both of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have a message for leaders of DEI programs in oncology.
