Texas cancer researchers vying to renew CPRIT beyond its 2023 sunset date

The institute is spending more than NCI in the state

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The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas—the second largest publicly-funded granting organization for cancer after NIH—may receive $3 billion more to stay open past its current sunset date in 2023.

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