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The great annual AACR meeting began as usual with its large opening ceremony, but the closing remarks of the CEO of AACR, Margaret Foti, were very out of the ordinary. She gave a condemnation of the Trump administration’s actions on science and health policy in the last a hundred days. This included “the major financing of gels for the main research institutions across the country” and “many executive decrees and other proposals that have the potential to harm the NIH,” she said.
The AACR has long pleaded in Washington for cancer research, playing a central role in the organization of briefings, demonstrations of the congress and to bring together various groups to put pressure for more funding for cancer science. The AACR, said Foti, plans demonstrations and events that will try to bring representatives and scientists across the country, and it encouraged participants to participate.
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