WASHINGTON - As the Pentagon seeks to trim spending, there are some programs Congress believes the military can't do without. Among them: cancer research. For almost 20 years, the Defense Department has been the recipient of more than $3.6 billion for cancer research. The programs have never been requested in any presidential budget, and are outside the Pentagon's traditional mission of battlefield medicine and research.
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Canary Foundation's Canary Prostate Team has been awarded two Department of Defense (DOD) grants issued by the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA). Totaling $2.25 million, these grants will help fund prostate cancer research led by Peter Carroll, MD, Ziding Feng, PhD, and James Brooks, MD. Dr. Carroll of The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has received the DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program Impact Award. This grant is awarded to an exceptional project proposal that focuses specifically on reducing or eliminating the over-treatment of primary prostate cancer. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Carroll will use his allotted funds over the next three years to support his research project e...
It's not easy to obtain a pink garbage can -- unless you live in the City of Lockport. Mayor Michael W. Tucker said Friday that when the city institutes its new privatized garbage collection system later this summer, residents who want to make a donation toward breast cancer research will have the option of buying a pink plastic garbage tote for an extra $5 on their user fee.
NORMAL - Money from the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of McLean County is helping to fund research into a cause of cancer and the research is happening less than two miles east of where Relay happens each June. The cancer society announced Tuesday that $57,430 from Relay at Normal Community West High School has gone to Erik Larson, assistant professor of molecular biology at Illinois State University, for his research into how one protein mutates DNA to cause cancer. The announcement was made in Larson's lab at ISU's Science Laboratory Building.
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer, with the help of advocates across the country, has successfully preserved critical funding for prostate cancer research. Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) offered an amendment on the House floor that was unanimously approved to transfer an additional $16 million to the $64 million originally stated for the Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110225/ZEROLOGO)
WHITTIER - Although oil and water don't mix, it seems oil changes and goodwill do. Oil Can Henry's, a 20-point, a full-service oil change center with branches located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Washington is in the middle of a fundraising campaign for cancer research.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's recent report, "Pancreatic Cancer: A trickle of federal funding for a river of need," calls attention to the lack of federal resources allocated to pancreatic cancer research and supports the need for legislation as lawmakers re-introduce the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act today on Capitol Hill. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100914/MM64269)
Rent could spike at the Louisiana Cancer Research Center by as much as 30 percent if the fifth and sixth floors aren't finished when the center opens early next year. That looks likely since the state's capital outlay bill for fiscal 2012 fails to provide the final $15 million for the long- planned collaborative research center at the corner of Tulane and Claiborne avenues, which will house faculty from Louisiana State, Tulane and Xavier universities.
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