http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-cancer-genome-atlas/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:51:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/the-cancer-genome-atlas/comment-page-1/#comment-566510 » Dr. Bernadine Healy on the Cancer Genome Atlas Genetics and Health Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:29:26 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2005/12/14/the-cancer-genome-atlas/#comment-566510 [...] Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health, writes about the Cancer Genome Atlas in the January 9th issue of U.S. News & World Report. The Atlas should be the hottest thing in genome exploration since the map of the normal human genome was completed in 2003. But insecurity about a slow-growing NIH budget and a cultural bias against big science projects have frozen a bold-footed move into a tentative tiptoe: A three-year pilot studying only two to three as-yet-to-be-determined cancers (wait until that selection process starts!) will cost the National Cancer Institute $17 million of its annual $5 billion budget and the National Human Genome Research Institute an additional $17 million. Only if the pilot reaches unnamed milestones will the Atlas be stretched into a decade-long, billion-dollar study of 50 cancers–out of over 200. [...] [...] Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health, writes about the Cancer Genome Atlas in the January 9th issue of U.S. News & World Report. The Atlas should be the hottest thing in genome exploration since the map of the normal human genome was completed in 2003. But insecurity about a slow-growing NIH budget and a cultural bias against big science projects have frozen a bold-footed move into a tentative tiptoe: A three-year pilot studying only two to three as-yet-to-be-determined cancers (wait until that selection process starts!) will cost the National Cancer Institute $17 million of its annual $5 billion budget and the National Human Genome Research Institute an additional $17 million. Only if the pilot reaches unnamed milestones will the Atlas be stretched into a decade-long, billion-dollar study of 50 cancers–out of over 200. [...]

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