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Researchers at Harvard and Brandeis Universities were awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse last week to undertake a five-year study into the most medically and financially effective ways to combat substance abuse problems through managed care.
“The hope is for one nationally coordinated effort. [The HCGP] would bring it all under one roof,” said Dorie Hightower, public affairs specialist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
According to Hightower, big proponents of this national effort to map human cancer genomes include Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute and Leland H. Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Beginning examples of such genome-oriented cancer treatments such as Iressa have met with overwhelming success, according to Larry J. Thompson, communications director for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)—one of the 27 institutes of the NIH.
“Without an appropriate legislative environment,” he wrote in the op-ed, “there is a real risk that major initiatives, such as Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute, which can attract talented students, scientists, as well as industry, would be gravely...