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...more radical approach is being taken by groups like the newly formed Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C), which plans to finance research designed to deliver big leaps and home runs rather than the incremental improvements that are more typical of mainstream science. The new focus for funding grants, said Dr. Eric Winer, chief scientific adviser to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, in a conference address, is results: "What we want to see is research that is going to change the number of women that are diagnosed with, or more importantly, die of, breast cancer within the foreseeable future...
...improved surgical techniques as well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City, a former NIH director and a Nobel-winning researcher in lung cancer. "We feel we understand some of the basic principles. We understand the tissue environment...
...dust mentality. To get funding, individual researchers typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success. "You have to have already done some of the stuff and then propose it, before they're going to believe it's the right thing to do," says Dr. Ray DuBois, executive vice president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a cancer researcher. A proposal can take months to write, so a rejection means the loss of a scientist's productivity as well...
...optimism researchers have is tempered by the fact that money is tighter. Funding for the NCI has been flat during the past three years of the Bush Administration, at about $4.8 billion. "One of the things that happens when money gets tight is that everything gets more conservative," says Dr. Curtis Harris, an NIH cancer researcher...
...have ever had," Wiedhopf says. "It's marvelous. That's the upside." The problem is that some collectors don't want to buy from nurseries. Rather than purchasing from, say, the acres and acres of cacti nurseries in the Netherlands, avid collectors travel to Mexico instead, according to Dr. Martin Terry, a biologist at Sul Ross University in West Texas and co-founder of the Cactus Conservation Institute (CCI), where they "roam the boondocks, see a rare species, dig it up and FedEx it home, avoiding all the inspections along the way." For the travel-averse, there's no shortage...