Proposed federal budget would devastate cancer research, advocates say
Source: washington post
By Laurie McGinley March 17 at 9:00 AM
Cancer researchers and advocacy groups are denouncing President Trump's proposed budget, warning that its 19 percent cut for the National Institutes of Health could cripple or kill former vice president Joe Biden’s cancer “moonshot” initiative and other important biomedical efforts.
“Forget about the moonshot. What about everything on the ground?” said George Demetri, an oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. “Fundamentally, this is so extreme that all I can think is that it’s pushing two orders of magnitude off the grid so that when people come back to less extreme positions it looks normal.”
Among people who work in the life sciences, Demetri said, “there is a stunned speechlessness.”
The budget blueprint released Thursday did not include specific numbers for individual NIH institutes, such as the National Cancer Institute. Still, the proposed cuts represent a sharp turnaround from the Obama administration as well as congressional supporters, who pressed for more NIH funding in recent years. The Obama White House in particular pushed the moonshot initiative to try to accelerate progress against the disease.
“From cancer moonshot to crater in the stroke of a pen,” tweeted Paul McGee, managing director of field communications for the American Cancer Society.......................
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Even is some gets restored, the fact that this was even proposed by Trump should NOT be forgotten!! This is insane!
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The Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health could jeopardize former vice president Joe Biden's cancer "moonshot," researchers fear. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
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