The Lead: CPRIT’s Trickle-Down Funding Troubles, Oil Field Thefts
The troubles roiling the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) are spreading to other research groups, The Texas Tribune reports.
With its grant and review policies under investigation, CPRIT is currently prohibiting from dispensing grants. The Tribune reports:
The moratorium placed on CPRIT grants in December has put the distribution of $182.6 million — including $71.8 million to bring additional research teams to Texas and $16.2 million for cancer prevention services — on hold. As a result, Texas universities are scrambling to keep renowned cancer researchers who were promised millions of dollars to move their labs to Texas. And advocacy groups fear they will be forced to dismantle cancer prevention programs.“All of the momentum that we’ve worked for in the last two to three years will just be lost if those funds abruptly go away,” said Leticia Goodrich, executive director of the Amarillo Area Breast Health Coalition, which has increased the number of cancer screenings provided to impoverished women by 400 percent with a CPRIT grant that expires in June. “It gives us no time to build our program towards becoming self-sustaining.”
A bill calling for stricter oversight at CPRIT is currently working its way thorough the Texas Legislature, after clearing a key Senate panel.
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