White House: Cancer Research Budget Doubling To Take 8 Years

From The Cancer Letter, May 15, 2009:

The Obama administration last week said the plan to double the cancer research budget will take eight years, not five as candidate Barack Obama proposed last year.

The longer time frame was revealed in NIH budget documents released May 7 as part of the detailed rollout of the President’s budget request for fiscal 2010. The budget proposal includes $6 billion for “cancer research across NIH,” and would be the first year of an eight-year effort to double cancer research by FY 2017.

The NCI request is $5.15 billion, a $181 million or 3.6 percent increase over the FY 2009 appropriation.

For the rest of the story, and other cancer-related news of the week, click on The Cancer Letter Archive at left to read the May 15 issue (subscription or day pass required).






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