Newsflash! WaPo: Texas to Pick Up Cancer Research Ball Screwed Up by Yale and IDSA's OspA/Lyme Crime
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Subject: Newsflash! WaPo: Texas to Pick Up Cancer Research Ball
Screwed Up by Yale and IDSA's OspA/Lyme Crime
Date: Oct 4, 2009 7:41 AM
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
Newsflash! WashingtonPost:
Texas to Pick Up Cancer Research Ball Screwed Up by Yale and IDSA's
OspA/Lyme Crime:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100203446_2.html
Lying about Lyme Disease and LYMErix screwed up cancer research:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
References ^^ for Pam3Cys Presentation [◄Immunosuppression by OspA or
Barbour's Stealth Bombers (spirochetal blebbing of OspA-like surface
antigens) cause increase in Mycoplasma infections which cause cancer,
and the immunosuppression from OspA causes activation of cancer-
causing viruses, like Epstein-Barr]
Texas will assure that no clowns like Crazy Eddie McSweegan are in
charge of grants and that none of the likes of the Israeli
IDSociety.org of America will interfere by selling bogus results, like
Mark Klempliar's.
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/McSweegan.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/080430_RICO_CABAL_CAVES.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/MKLEMPNER.htm
"Institute leaders say the agency's ethics standards will avoid any
conflicts of interest and ensure that the awards will be merit-based.
The agency will use out-of-state peer review groups composed of
doctors and scientists to review the grant applications.
"The people have given us a lot of money," said James Mansour,
chairman of the institute's oversight committee. "It's incumbent on us
to spend the money and spend it properly."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100203446_2.html
Texas begins $3 billion quest to cure cancer
By PAUL J. WEBER
The Associated Press
Friday, October 2, 2009 2:31 PM
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented
the handheld calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone
Star State cure cancer?
Texas is ready to try by investing $3 billion over the next decade in
cancer research and prevention, which would make the state the
gatekeeper of the second largest pot of cancer research dollars in the
country, behind only the National Cancer Institute.
"I don't know anyone that would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with what
they're trying to do," said Robert Urban, executive director of the
Koch Institute for Innovative Cancer Research at MIT.
That gee-whiz impression is what Texas leaders sought in 2007, when
the state created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of
Texas through an ambitious bond measure approved by voters. Lance
Armstrong, champion cyclist and cancer survivor, sold the plan to
voters, and Gov. Rick Perry said he dreamed of a day "we talk about
cancer the same way we talk about polio."
Texas is now putting out the call to scientists: Come and get the
money.
Institute leaders say the money will fund drug developments, gamble on
high-risk research turned away elsewhere and attract big-name
scientists to Texas. Creating the first statewide clinical trial
network, which could give cancer patients more access to experimental
drugs, also is being discussed.
But so much money on the table - particularly in the hands of a state
that's new to funding cancer research - has some researchers worried
that politics and backroom deals will play a role in deciding who gets
what. The agency will invest upward of $260 million a year on cancer
research and $30 million in preventive services such as early
detection screenings.
A sagging economy also makes some skittish about whether the state
will follow through with funding for an entire decade.
"That $3 billion isn't in the bank," said Dr. Tyler Curiel, executive
director of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at the University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. "What if the money isn't
going to be there in the future?"
Curiel is among the hundreds of researchers who began writing
applications last month for a slice of the $450 million Texas will
hand out over the first two years. The first grants are expected to be
awarded by spring.
The state also is hoping to lure more top scientists to Texas with $2
million offers for salary and research and is prepared to offer even
more for "superstars."
But once the money is doled out, the agency cautions, don't expect any
overnight miracles.
"(We're) not going to bring new drugs to market during the first two
years. Nor during the first four years," said Dr. Alfred Gilman, the
institute's chief scientific officer. "It will take a good deal of
time."
No other state comes close to the amount of cancer research dollars
Texas has pledged. California voters in 2004 approved a $3 billion
plan for a stem cell research agency, which opponents tied up in court
for two years over the ethics of creating and destroying embryos from
which the cells could be harvested.
Massachusetts in 2008 passed a $1 billion, 10-year initiative to fund
life sciences research, but some have wondered about the viability of
that big-ticket endeavor given the state's economic woes.
Texas, meanwhile, is doling out cancer research dollars at a time when
funds nationwide have been flat or drying up. The National Cancer
Institute handed out $3.14 billion in so-called extramural grants in
fiscal year 2008, a slight drop from 2007 and down from $3.25 billion
in 2005. The federal stimulus bill gave the NCI an additional $1.26
billion in grant money, but researchers say it's still not enough.
Texas already is no slouch when it comes to fighting cancer. The
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is one of
the top cancer research sites in the country, and the state is home to
headquarters of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lance Armstrong
Foundation.
Dr. Patrick Reynolds, director of the cancer center at the Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center, returned to Texas last year after
working at the University of Southern California. He said there was
frustration among researchers in California with the state spending
billions on stem cell research but nothing to help cancer patients in
the short term.
He expects other researchers to flock to Texas.
"I think what people are saying is that (Texas) really cares,"
Reynolds said. "And by golly, now we got some more resources to do
something."
But the new institute has been pinched by the economic slowdown. State
lawmakers did not fully fund it for the first two years, leaving $150
million on the table. Institute officials believe the agency may be
able to recoup that money down the road, Executive Director Bill
Gimson said.
State Rep. Garnet Coleman voted for the initiative, but the Houston
Democrat was disappointed that no more than 10 percent of the money is
earmarked for preventive services that have a more immediate impact.
Gimson said he could not imagine a scenario in which drug companies
would be awarded the money, but Coleman is worried that Big Pharma
could still find a way to take advantage of state dollars. He also
worried about the institute's transparency when it comes to where the
money will be spent.
Institute leaders say the agency's ethics standards will avoid any
conflicts of interest and ensure that the awards will be merit-based.
The agency will use out-of-state peer review groups composed of
doctors and scientists to review the grant applications.
"The people have given us a lot of money," said James Mansour,
chairman of the institute's oversight committee. "It's incumbent on us
to spend the money and spend it properly."
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