Biden’s State of the Union highlights healthcare wins in cancer White House announces ARPA-H precision cancer therapy program and patient navigation commitments

AACR establishes grant program to support early-stage and mid-career cancer researchers

The American Association for Cancer Research has established the AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grant Program.

May 02, 2025

DOGE implements manual review of awarded funds

The Department of Government Efficiency has started requiring HHS grantees to provide justifications in order to receive payouts for already awarded grant money.

NIH notice prohibits grant awardees from operating programs that promote DEI

NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.”

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan to resign

Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, will resign from the position 16 months before the scheduled end of his six-year term.

April 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.16

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Claire Marie Porter

Funding Opportunities

2025 AACR-Novocure grants for cancer research now accepting applications

The American Association for Cancer Research-Novocure Career Development Award for Cancer Research represents a joint effort to promote and support early-career investigators who are conducting innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) as well as to encourage early-career investigators to enter the TTFields research field.

April 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.16

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In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?

April 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.15

Biden’s State of the Union highlights healthcare wins in cancer

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