Thank you for visiting our News section where you will find links to recent articles within NCI and from around the country that showcase the impact of the Recovery Act.

News From NCI

Recovery Act Funding Opens Doors for a New Generation of Pacific Islander Researchers - November 23, 2009
Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness and Training (WINCART) is a Southern California-based network of programs designed to reduce health disparities among Pacific Islander populations in the United States. With an NCI Recovery Act grant, WINCART has doubled its number of research interns, training a new generation of researchers while at the same time educating the community they serve about serious health disparity issues.
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ARRA Funds Accelerating the Pace of Highly Novel Early-Stage Research in Breast Cancer - November 23, 2009
Recovery Act investments have provided much-needed funding to the NCI's Accelerating Clinical Trials of Novel Oncologic Pathways (ACTNOW) program, an initiative supporting early phase clinical trials of promising new cancer treatments. Through this program, the University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute has hired new researchers and has been able to accelerate the development of a new cancer drug called ABT-888, which the investigator calls "exciting, with the potential to work wonders."
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Comparative Effectiveness Grants in Genomic and Personalized Medicine
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the National Cancer Institute recently funded seven research and research infrastructure Grand Opportunities.
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The Cancer Genome Atlas Project to Map 20 Tumor Types - October 06, 2009
$175 million in Recovery Act funds supports second phase of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project.
Read the story in the NCI Cancer Bulletin

President Barack Obama Addresses Recovery Act Investment in TCGA - September 30, 2009
Enabling The Cancer Genome Atlas to Map 20 Cancers
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Using ARRA Funds to Advance Cancer Research - September 22, 2009
Update on NCIs investment of Recovery Act funds and plans to provide continuing support for valuable research beyond the funding period.
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ACTNOW Opens the Gate for Timely, Novel Research - August 11, 2009
NCI announces a new program being supported by Recovery Act funding. The Accelerating Clinical Trials of Novel Oncologic Pathways (ACTNOW) program will advance targeted, personalized cancer treatment through 37 early-phase clinical trials of new cancer therapies.
Read the story in the NCI Cancer Bulletin

Recovery Act Boosts Informatics - May 5, 2009
Top federal health information technology officials are predicting that the Recovery Act will help push development and adoption of health IT and interconnectivity to dramatically new levels over the coming years.
Read the story in the NCI Cancer Bulletin

Recovery Act Impact - April 20, 2009
NCI Director John E. Niederhuber, M.D., discusses the impact of the Recovery Act on cancer research at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Headlines from Around the Country

Stimulus opens the floodgates of research in St. Louis - October 19, 2009
From the St. Louis Times Dispatch & stltoday.com
"With the help of a recent $10 million research grant, Washington University scientists are expanding their genetic sequencing project to include 20 different types of cancers."

NIH Stimulus Funding Supports Emory Biomedical Scientists - August 6, 2009
From Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center
In addition to research grants, NIH provided funding for Emory scientists to hire eight high school students, 22 college students, and five teachers for summer research positions.

UCLA Neuroscientists Get $19 Million From NIH for Supercomputer - August 19, 2009
From DOTmed® News
UCLA neuroscientists said this week the government has given them approximately $19 million in NIH stimulus funds, via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress this year, to study brain disease.

UW Receives Seven Federal Stimulus Grants - August 19, 2009
From University of Wyoming's Web site News and Notices
"Seven UW grants -- covering research on astronomy, climate change, geology, insect cells and neuroscience -- have been approved on the heels of another record-breaking year for external funding at the university."

Stimulus money creates at least 22 summer jobs at Stanford medical school - July 30, 2009
From the Stanford School of Medicine's Inside Stanford Medicine
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known by most as the "stimulus package," the NIH has allocated $21 million over two years for educational supplements to existing research grants.   So far, at least 12 high school and 10 college students have received NIH stimulus funds to work with researchers at Stanford medical school.