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

On Sept. 4, Jay Bhattacharya did something NIH directors rarely do: he appeared before the National Cancer Advisory Board, speaking directly with the NCI advisory board about hot-button policy changes taking place under his leadership at NIH.

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.

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Vol.51 No.32

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

Guest Editorial

Curing cancer or curbing immigration: A question of national morality and priority

In December 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and declared a “War on Cancer.” In the past 54 years, the U.S. has invested $180 billion nominally, or approximately $322 billion when adjusted for inflation, in cancer research. This investment has paid dividends with more than 100 anticancer drugs brought to market in half a century—virtually all traceable to National Cancer Institute funding.

Julie Bauman named deputy chair of NRG Oncology’s NCORP research program, Ryan Burri named vice chair of Veteran Affairs research

Julie BaumanRyan BurriNRG Oncology, an NCI National Clinical Trials Network group focused on multi-center clinical research, appointed Julie Bauman as deputy chair of the Community Oncology Research Program.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

In Brief

UC San Diego awarded $80M to expand clinical trials and train future researchers

UC San Diego and a growing coalition of regional institutions are making clinical research more accessible and more impactful across Southern California.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

Podcast

In The Headlines: A good week for NIH, a bad week for Vinay Prasad

While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.

August 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.30

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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