Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) yesterday asked embattled $ 3 billion research agency on the state to stop cancer grants until it addresses concerns about its procedures. The Institute of Prevention and Cancer Research of Texas (CPRIT) responded by announcing a moratorium on new subsidies.
problems CPRIT went public in May, when then-scientific director Alfred Gilman, a Nobel Prize, left to protest against the proceedings of scientific review of the agency. Two other top agency officials, including the executive director of CPRIT, have left in recent weeks amid new allegations-and-investigations in civil and criminal matters how the agency has made certain marketing functions.
In a letter received yesterday, Perry and two other heads of state have asked CPRIT to "fully meet the concerns that have been raised about its processes and operations before future subsidies are granted." The committee monitoring CPRIT replied that he "accepts" and impose "a moratorium on CPRIT grants. ... These issues must be resolved to restore public confidence in CPRIT. "Current grants are not affected, the agency said.
spokesman CPRIT Ellen Read said staff the agency seeking "clarification" about what the moratorium proposals already in the pipeline. this includes those of a request for applications for the first translational price which closed on December 14.
CPRIT funded 502 grants totaling $ 841 million for research, commercialization and prevention since 09. the legislature of the state of Texas is scheduled to hear testimony today about whether the agency should be funded in 2014 2015, according to The Texas Tribune .
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