NCI exceeds employment ceilings, must cut personnel in FY 2004, NIH says. Further cuts expected in extramural grant support staff.
Also ASCO to release abstracts to members prior to annual meeting.
Advisors suggest NCI establish sarcoma research consortium.
Lung cancer screening trial reaches accrual goal of 50,000.
Markison leaving Bristol-Myers, two others promoted in reorganization.
Wilding named director, Univ. of Wisconsin Cancer Center.
NABCO to close June 30.
This month’s 8-page Business & Regulatory Report included in this issue.
Trending Stories
- DOD cancer research programs face 57% funding cut in year-long continuing resolution
Pancreatic, lung, kidney cancer research programs eliminated - Karen Knudsen tells us why she took the CEO job at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
- Brian Druker, developer of Gleevec, eyes a new feat: Setting the Boston Marathon fundraising record
Current record: $507,000. Proceeds to go to LLS as NIH funding is slashed - Amid HHS upheaval, Bhattacharya takes the helm at NIH, Makary at FDA
Meanwhile, NASEM sounds “SOS” for health infrastructure - What Trump’s pick of RFK Jr. means for cancer: Epidemics, HPV, stunted research
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb expresses “deep concerns” - In The Headlines: Private funding can’t replace federal funding—but it can help
