Updated: UT Cancer Institute Focuses on Drug Research
Updated 2 p.m., 11/28/2011:
HOUSTON — The University of Texas is committing $75 million to kick-start the new Institute for Applied Cancer Science, which will focus on speeding up the discovery and delivery of effective cancer drugs at a time when pharmaceutical companies have scaled back research and development.
Gov. Rick Perry, taking a break from his busy pursuit of the GOP presidential nomination, was on hand for the announcement at the south campus of MD Anderson Cancer Center, site of the new facility, in Houston on Monday. Perry said the institute would help Texas cement its position ...
Comments (4)
jpt51
Perry picks Dr. Ronald DePinho to be M.D. Anderson's new president and right away DePinho's wife gets $8 million of our tax dollars. Tell me Perry isn't the kingpin of crony pay-to-play politics. I just hope he ends up in jail like Tom DeLay and former Lousisiana. Gov. Edwin Edwards.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Only problem is GOTprty are against any form of affordable healthcare...so just how the hell are people going to afford these?
Judy Duesterheft via Texas Tribune on Facebook
what happened to the one that voters approved to be built in Austin several years ago?
JJ Baskin
jpt51, Dr DePinho was hired by the UT System Board of Regents after a national search. Part of the coup of his hiring is that MD Anderson got his very talented spouse to move down her and be a part of this effort. She doesn't get the money, cancer research does.
This one really isn't cronyism, it is research and the war against cancer. The leadership of this institute is high cotton. This is a good thing for Texas and a really bad thing for cancer.