Updates matching "Cancer Research Funding"

WASHINGTON, DC January 30, 2015 The president 's Precision Medicine Initiative is an important investment in improving our understanding of the causes of and potential therapies for cancer - a disease that kills more than 1,600 people in America each day. The proposal would dedicate a combined $215 million for

WASHINGTON, DC -- January 26, 2015 -- We commend Rep. DeLauro for introducing the Accelerating Biomedical Research Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a budget cap adjustment to allow for a funding increase for biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The bill would boost the NIH

WASHINGTON -- December 2, 2014 -- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Dr. Harold Varmus today announced the institute's FY 2016 professional judgment budget request for $5.75 billion. Also known as the Bypass Budget, the request is the agency's annual estimation of the necessary investment to promote ongoing and promising research

WASHINGTON, D.C. September 15, 2014 More than 600 cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones from all 50 states and nearly every congressional district are on Capitol Hill this week to ask their members of Congress to make the fight against cancer a national priority. The American Cancer Society Cancer

Washington, DC More than 250 childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, June 24 to ask Congress to continue to support initiatives that can improve research, treatment and outcomes for children with cancer. The third annual Childhood Cancer Action Day event,

Today 's Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on the fight against cancer represents the first time in more than five years that Congress has focused specific attention on a disease expected to kill more than 585,000 people in America and cost the economy an estimated $216 billion this year.