NCI to hold 5 percent of division budgets in reserve for “strategic priorities.” Competing RPG budgets to be cut 18 percent on average.
Also Anna Barker gets new, longer title at NCI; Mark Clanton named deputy director for care, delivery.
To nurture staff, NCI plans an academy.
NCI document says 2015 goal formed in 2001, long before announcement.
AACR to honor eight scientists with lecture awards.
M.D. Anderson signs collaboration agreement with Institut Gustave Roussy.
NCI to set separate payline for R01s over $700,000.
Funding opportunities listed.
Trending Stories
- Anthony G. Letai to be named NCI director
The Dana-Farber and Harvard physician-scientist is an inspired choice, colleagues say - NCI releases names of members of ad hoc working group—filling the void left by BSA
- ACOG says it will no longer accept federal funding
- Trump’s FDA invents an unusual regulatory pathway to approve leucovorin for autism
Experts call the move “extremely premature” - Bhattacharya: New grant review criterion is “not political”
- Jonathan Mahler on his front-page story in the NYT Magazine on Trump’s deliberate dismantling of America’s War on Cancer