... and to double the NIH budget, as reported in Wired magazine's science blog. Republican Presidential candidate Tommy Thompson, whose wife, mother-in-law and daughter all faced breast cancer, pledged yesterday to allocate resources to cure breast cancer by 2015.
His plan includes a doubling of the NIH budget to $56 billion along with awarding $10 million prizes for significant strides in research.
Read the Wired Science blog here:
Presidential Candidate Pledges to Cure Breast Cancer by 2015 and Double NIH Budget
