NCI must make a bigger investment in new cancer therapies and expand the clinical trials system that tests them, the institute’s Acting Director Douglas Lowy said in his remarks at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting June 4.
As NCI paylines drop to 4%, cancer centers are tapping into their institutional funds to provide “bridge funding,” typically in $50,000 to $100,000 increments, to enable investigators to keep their labs open until better times return—next year God willing.
