New guidelines for Cancer Center Support Grants will enable centers to apply for salary support for clinical investigators.
New benchmark for CCSG award funding will be lowered from 20 percent of NCI research base to 15 percent, the program’s “reality ratio,” Karen Antman tells NCAB.
Also in this 8-page issue: FDA begins search for director of new Office of Oncology Drug Products.
Broad Institute wins NIH grant for first national SNP genotyping center.
Cancer center investigators share Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry.
Funding opportunities listed.
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