APPROPRIATORS QUESTION PRESIDENT’S PLAN TO DOUBLE FUNDING FOR CANCER RESEARCH – IS CANCER RESEARCH THREATENED?

The fairness of increasing cancer research funding in FY2010 comes into question during House and Senate hearings. See my post of May 23, 2009: Senator Harkin and the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hold Hearings on the Budget Allocations to the NCI for Cancer Research Two leading appropriators in [...]

Senator Harkin and the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Hold Hearings on the Budget Allocations to the NCI for Cancer Research

On Thursday the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held its FY 2010 NIH budget hearing. There were two particular items of note for the cancer community. When discussing the NIH funding which was received through the economic stimulus package, Senator Harkin questioned if the current two years the NIH [...]

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