NCI R01 Payline Falls To 12th Percentile

From The Cancer Letter, March 7, 2008:

NCI's payline for investigator-initiated grants will drop to the 12th percentile this fiscal year, from the 15th percentile in FY07, as the institute plans to fund fewer grants with a budget that has remained flat for the past five years.

"Something has to give," NCI Director John Niederhuber said to the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors at its March 3 meeting. "We need to inject a little bit of reality into this process. We can't continue to increase the grant pool with a flat budget."

The cancer clinical trials system is "slowly unraveling" due to NCI's budget difficulties, said Allen Lichter, executive vice president and CEO of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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