Investigations of CPRIT's Grants Process Are Pushed
Amid growing concern about the review process used to award taxpayer-funded cancer research grants, some lawmakers and outside groups are calling for separate investigations of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
State lawmakers expressed concern about CPRIT’s grant process Friday after it was revealed one grant — $11 million awarded to Peloton Therapeutics — was approved without a scientific or business review.
“Serious problems have come to our attention,” Sen. Jane Nelson, F-Flower Mound, and Rep. Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, wrote in a letter to the leaders of CPRIT: Jim Mansour, the founding chairman, and Bill Gimson, the executive director ...
Comments (4)
Steve Cook via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Im sure if they looked into everything theres alot like that..
Jim Vance
It should come as no surprise to anyone with half a working brain and any familiarity with how Texas business and politics mix with high society that behind the glitz and glitter of this new cancer-fighting institution it was essentially just another pork-barrel trough funded by the general public from which the favored insiders could feast, so long as they followed the long-time maxims of "Go along and get along to get ahead" and "Money talks".
gypsy314 ne
The Sooner Texans remove all the liberal socialist from Texas the better off Texas will be.
Anya Khan
No state grant money should be given without thoroughly investigating the receipiant.