The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas is the nation's second-largest pool of cancer research funding.
Texas is a leader in cancer research. And, recently, it's also been a leader in cancer research controversy.
In 2007, Texas voters created a $3 billion cancer research fund, second only in size to that of the National Institutes of Health. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has been under fire since May, when its chief science officer, Dr. Alfred Gilman, a Nobel Prize-winner, announced he was stepping down because, he said, CPRIT executives were bypassing scientific review when they made decisions about what projects to fund.
Last week, seven more scientists resigned from CPRIT, and Gilman and Dr. Phillip Sharp, another Nobel laureate who resigned from CPRIT, wrote an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle about the organization's future.
For its part, CPRIT says it is "entering a new era" and has several strong candidates to fill Gilman's post.
Lauren Lawley Head is the editor of the Dallas Business Journal.
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