Tumors on Ice as Budget Impasse Freezes Medical Research
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Rebecca Riggins, a Georgetown University cancer researcher, has had to freeze her work amid federal funding cuts brought on by sequestration. Literally.
Riggins has had breast tumor samples sitting on ice for a month awaiting a decision on how much of an almost $1 million federal grant will be trimmed as she moves into the third year of a five-year project to study breast cancer treatments. The grant could be cut by half, she’s been told.