Bhattacharya fields NCAB’s questions about funding, political involvement in grant review, DEI, animal testing

NCAB approves five reissue concepts

The National Cancer Advisory Board approved five reissue concepts at a meeting Sept. 4.

September 12, 2025

House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

The House is on track to join the Senate in rejecting the Trump administration’s budget proposal that would cut NIH by $18 billion.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

NCI

Lowy: Forward-funding policy forced NCI to drastically reduce RPG awards funded for FY25, 10% of NCI staff has been lost

At the Sept. 4 meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board, NCI Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy provided an overview of how NCI is weathering the maelstrom of executive orders, policy changes, and funding uncertainties that has come down on federal agencies and research institutes since Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

In the Headlines: Is oncology ready to move away from animal testing?

NIH has announced it will stop issuing funding opportunities solely dedicated to animal models, but has not published any formal guidance related to the announcement, and researchers are unclear on when or whether further policy materials are to be expected.

July 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.28

Cancer Policy

HHS asks employees to report instances of “DEI policies that caused discrimination”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is searching for examples of employees, grant recipients, and contractors harmed by DEI efforts of the federal government in the last five years, as part of the Trump administration’s mission to end initiatives set up to diversify the workforce and bolster opportunities forhistorically disadvantaged groups.

In first NCAB meeting since Trump’s inauguration, Lowy reflects on funding choices in lean times
“In the NCI director’s office, we have a photograph of a stone bridge, and it asks the question, which stone holds up the bridge? And the answer is all of them.”

In the first meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, NCI Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy addressed many of the burning questions the oncology field has for the institute. On indirect costs: NCI will continue to use previously negotiated and approved indirect cost rates, with the exception...

June 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.23

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Bhattacharya fields NCAB’s questions about funding, political involvement in grant review, DEI, animal testing

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NCAB approves five reissue concepts

House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99MHouse joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

Lowy: Forward-funding policy forced NCI to drastically reduce RPG awards funded for FY25, 10% of NCI staff has been lost

In the Headlines: Is oncology ready to move away from animal testing?

HHS asks employees to report instances of “DEI policies that caused discrimination”

In first NCAB meeting since Trump’s inauguration, Lowy reflects on funding choices in lean times“In the NCI director’s office, we have a photograph of a stone bridge, and it asks the question, which stone holds up the bridge? And the answer is all of them.”

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House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

In first NCAB meeting since Trump’s inauguration, Lowy reflects on funding choices in lean times
“In the NCI director’s office, we have a photograph of a stone bridge, and it asks the question, which stone holds up the bridge? And the answer is all of them.”