The assumption that growth in research funding would be sustained indefinitely has created an “unsustainable hypercompetitive system” heading toward “long-term decline,” a group of scientists, including NCI Director Harold Varmus, wrote in a paper published in the April 22 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For a year before an osteosarcoma was found in her right proximal tibia, Sammy Ulloa, pushing through pain, persisted with her training as a Division I track and field and cross-country competitor.
