Politico May 29, 2025
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Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, a cancer researcher and associate dean for oncology at Brown University, has an unlikely sales pitch for President Donald Trump: Pick me to lead the nation’s cancer research and give me a lot more money to spend on it.
Despite slashing billions in health research grants and proposing further cuts in next year’s budget, Trump is considering El-Deiry to lead the National Cancer Institute after a recent interview for the job.
“It has been clear to me for some time that the budget of NCI should be somewhere between $25 billion and $50 billion,” El-Deiry wrote in The Cancer Letter, an industry publication, in May. He argued that the U.S. has underinvested in cancer research for...
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