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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(9):572-574; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj196
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NEWS

Research Foundations Find Strength in Numbers

Karyn Hede

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Three new $2 million grants for brain cancer research might tend to go unnoticed in the flood of new grant announcements. But this money may represent a sea change in how biomedical research is funded.

The grants were announced in March 2006 by a group of eight private foundations and voluntary health organizations. They are the result of 2 years of intense talks between the funders and prospective grantees about how to change the nature of brain cancer research funding and alleviate logjams that have long plagued the field. The Brain Tumor Funder's Collaborative (BTFC) grew out of a series of workshops for potential brain tumor research sponsors, where experts talked about what they need to advance brain cancer research. The collaborative was born at one of these workshops.

"It was like a light bulb went off over hundreds of people's heads," said Susan Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., vice president of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Brave New Grant World


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