Breast Cancer Research Suffers Under Sequestration, Budget Uncertainty
When grants dry up, critical research questions cost too much money.
The increasing likelihood of sequestration and the current climate of budget uncertainty have direct and possibly long-term impacts on cancer research at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) are among the many universities that rely on federal grants to support research. "Grants are our bread and butter...It's how we get work done, how we support our graduate students," Rebecca B. Riggins, PhD., an assistant professor in the Department of Oncology and member of the Breast Cancer Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at GUMC, said. According to sequester documents from the White House, cuts to research grants could impact up to 12,000 scientists …
