Low Budget, Empty Beds, Lack of Vision Beset NIH Clinical Center

From The Cancer Letter, June 20, 2008:

The NIH Hatfield Clinical Research Center is facing a host of fundamental challenges including under-financing, under-utilization, and the lack of a strong vision for its future, NIH officials told the National Cancer Advisory Board earlier this week.

NCI Director John Niederhuber asked the NCAB to begin thinking about ways to improve the Clinical Research Center, because the NCI intramural research program accounts for about a third of the center’s activity. The institute will contribute $93.4 million to the center’s $351.9 million budget in fiscal 2008.

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tags: NCI|  clinical trials