Feb. 16, 2024, is a landmark date in the history of immuno-oncology.
NCI has launched a clinical trials network to evaluate emerging technologies for cancer screening. The Cancer Screening Research Network will support the Biden-Harris administration’s Cancer Moonshot by investigating how to identify cancers earlier.
As NCI continues to hobble along on a flat budget provided by a succession of continuing resolutions, the prospects for robust funding for cancer research, rising paylines, and healthy cancer center support grants have dimmed for this fiscal year. “The extended delay in passing the FY2024 budget is disastrous for our cancer centers,” Jennifer W.... […]
Steven A. Rosenberg, fellow of the AACR Academy, was named the recipient of the 2024 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research.
As the likelihood of a flat budget increases for the 2024 fiscal year, NCI will have difficulty maintaining its current programs, the institute’s new director Kimryn Rathmell said in her inaugural NCI director’s report to members of the National Cancer Advisory Board Feb. 8.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences met its $30 million fundraising goal for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute’s campaign to achieve NCI designation.
Seventeen scientists have received NCI’s 2023 Outstanding Investigator Awards, with up to $600,000 in direct costs per year over six years.
Stacyann Bailey, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a two-year grant from NCI to study the complex relationship between drugs used to treat metastatic cancer and the development of bone damage.
W. Kimryn Rathmell was installed as the 17th director of NCI on Dec. 18, 2023.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center was awarded two five-year NCI grants totaling more than $3.3 million to expand its summer education programs, which aim to foster an interest in cancer research fields as early as middle school and develop a diverse workforce in cancer research.