NCI and Cancer Research UK awarded $125 million in total funding through the Cancer Grand Challenges program, supporting research on cancer inequities, early-onset cancers, solid tumors in children, and T-cell receptors. The $125 million investment marks the Cancer Grand Challenges program’s largest funding round to date.
An estimated 5,200 of HHS employees have been fired during the course of this week. Since the firings are ongoing, no final tally of their extent exists. At this writing, approximately 1,200 of the fired HHS employees were working at NIH, about 700 at FDA, and 750 at CDC.
