In a first procedural move of its kind, NCI asked its Board of Scientific Advisors to endorse the institute’s continuing affiliation with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
