Rathmell steps down at NCI as Trump team considers candidates to replace her Wafik El-Deiry, Harvey Risch have been interviewed

Richard Pazdur joins Friends board

Friends of Cancer Research announced the election of Richard Pazdur to the organization’s board of directors.

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Mina Sedrak and Vijaya Raj Bhatt to co-lead Alliance’s committee on cancer care for older adults

Mina Sedrak, director of the UCLA Center for Cancer and Aging and director of Cancer Control and Survivorship Research at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Vijaya Raj Bhatt professor and medical director of the Leukemia Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, were selected to serve as co-chairs of the Cancer in the Older Adult Committee for The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.

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Vol.52 No.22

In Brief

Katrina Armstrong to lead Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Research at Columbia

Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center CEO, and dean of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, will transition from her current roles to launch the Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Research, a collaboration between Roy and Diana Vagelos and the University.

June 05, 2026

Vol.52 No.22

Podcast

As FDA’s wheels almost entirely come off, NCI remains sturdy—a cancer moonshot may even be on the horizon

While every agency under HHS, particularly FDA, has seen historic leadership shakeups and massive cuts to personnel and funding over the course of the second Trump administration—NCI has been spared, even getting a small raise, under the direction of NCI Director Anthony Letai.

May 27, 2026

Capitol Hill NCI

NCI’s Letai gets softball questions from Senate appropriators at an otherwise contentious hearing

NCI has been getting what seems to be less austere treatment compared to its NIH counterparts.

USPSTF leaders John Wong and Esa Davis fired by Kennedy, leaving the panel rudderless

Esa M. Davis and John B. Wong have been fired from U.S. Preventive Services Task Force by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

May 22, 2026

Vol.52 No.20

By Claire Marie Porter

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