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$104 Million Proteomics Initiative Gets Green Light
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The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) in June approved a 5-year, $104 million Clinical Proteomic Technologies Initiative just 3 months after turning down an earlier version of the measure that some board members said lacked proof of concept. What's more, the board approved the measure despite the fact that its price tag increased by $15 million from its initial $89 million estimated cost.
"I can tell you that particularly in tight money times it didn't make anyone particularly happy that the price tag went up," said Robert Young, M.D., BSA chairman and president of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
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Approval for the initiative followed presentations by NCI staff who tried to address issues that came up at its initial presentation at the board's March meeting, during which members voiced concerns about reproducibility and comparability of proteomic analyses, a lack of common reagents and
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