Advisors tell NCI to rethink contracts for clinical trials cooperative group tissue banks. NCI Board of Scientific Advisors chides officials for failure to discuss $47.8 million contracting plan with cooperative group chairmen, questions need to extract tissue banks from group grants. Text of concept statement included.
Also AACI honors MIT’s Robert Weinberg. Bernard Fisher wins two awards.
NIH offers student loan repayment program, deadline is Dec. 31.
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