Impact of Sequestration on Cancer Research |
Robert McCartney points out that "few Americans would want their elected representatives to do anything so stupid as slow down medical research that promises to create a universal flu vaccine or find new cures for cancer. That, however, is precisely what Congress is about to do through the indiscriminate, mandated budget cuts known as sequestration."
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, states that "We will lose the opportunity to support some fantastic science...It's possible to look at thousands of cancers and catalogue all the reasons that this disease happens. That gives you a new set of targets for magic-built cancer therapies...That is a big, complicated, expensive program, and it simply will slow down if we don't have resources."
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House Appropriations Committee Report |
February 13, 2013
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee issued a report which discusses the impact of sequestration on numerous federal Agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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