President Barack Obama’s $3.9-trillion budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year would bump NIH funding up to $30.2 billion—a $200 million increase over fiscal 2014—and would include an additional $8 million for NCI, totaling $4.931 billion for the institute.
The first large cancer screening/early detection initiative to be launched in 2025—the NCI-funded Vanguard study of multi-cancer detection tests—has started accruing patients through nine sites across the U.S.
