President Joe Biden has requested an increase of $871.5 million to the overall NIH budget in FY25. Of that amount, $522 million, or nearly 60%, is slated for NCI.
On her first day of medical school at the University of Virginia in 1963, Vivian Pinn waited for the other students who looked like her to show up.
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.... […]
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has issued a subpoena to require NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli to provide information related to NIH’s handling of allegations of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct.
Shikha Jain, Shea Holman: It’s time for NIH to be transparent about how misconduct cases are handled
NIH has until Feb. 20 to comply with a congressional subpoena that directs NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli to produce internal documents, including reports and whistleblower complaints that could shed light on whether NIH is adequately responding to complaints of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment.
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center’s Maria F. Czyzyk-Krzeska was awarded a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the NIH to investigate how copper contributes to the advancement and recurrence of the most common type of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Monica M. Bertagnolli, the 16th NCI director, has been confirmed as the 17th director of NIH—six months after the White House first named her to lead the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
Monica Bertagnolli testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing to be the next NIH Director, Oct. 18, 2023 Photo credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesA Senate Committee Oct. 25 voted 15-6 to advance the confirmation of Monica Bertagnolli to the role of NIH director.
At a Senate hearing that considered her nomination to the post of NIH director, Monica Bertagnolli laid out an agenda that includes expanding access to clinical trials and making health care innovation affordable and accessible to the public.
Jinglei Ping, an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with an adjunct role in biomedical engineering and affiliation with the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, was awarded a $1.9 million, five-year NIH grant to investigate cellular communication.
