Eric Small on FY26 Budget: Saving Research Means Saving Lives
Eric Small, 2025-26 ASCO President, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“If you are a US Citizen: Please Support Federal Funding for Cancer Research!!!
From ASCO:
Federal funding propels cancer research forward – it fuels breakthroughs, drives progress, and brings us closer to conquering cancer. Federal research is on the chopping block for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026.
To ensure continued progress on decades of advancement, ASCO urges policymakers to provide robust cancer research funding in the FY26 budget, and YOU SHOULD TOO!
The president’s 2026 budget proposes an alarming cut to the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute budgets. Slashing federal research funding at a time when science is revolutionizing cancer care risks leaving millions of patients without the promise and potential of life-saving breakthroughs.
Losing Generations: Not only will we lose future groundbreaking treatments to save and extend lives, but we are also at risk of a diminishing the cancer research workforce.
Unpredictable funding at NIH and NCI is pushing our brightest minds toward international competitors. The Max Planck Society in Germany, one of Europe’s top research groups, has already received three times more US applicants in 2025 than it did in all of 2024. This is just the beginning of a scientific brain drain.
Please contact your elected officials and ask them to support funding to SAVE RESEARCH and STOP CANCER. (Click below for ASCO ACT Network that will effortlessly help you write and send letters to your elected officials – no need to look up addresses or lick postage stamps!)”
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