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UVM Larner College asks Vermont to back bid for NCI cancer-center designation
Summary
Leaders of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and the UVM Cancer Center urged the Senate Health & Welfare Committee to provide state funding and a formal multi‑year commitment to strengthen a planned National Cancer Institute core grant submission in fall 2026.
Dean Rick Page of the Larner College of Medicine and leaders of the UVM Cancer Center told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee on March 12 they are seeking state funding and a clear, multi‑year commitment to bolster a planned National Cancer Institute core grant application in fall 2026.
Page told senators that Vermont previously had an NCI‑designated cancer center until February 2008 and that “we need to demonstrate that our state is committed to this, to be taken seriously in terms of receiving designation.” He said the college is preparing a submission for the core grant next fall and asked for state support to make the application credible.
The request comes after the college installed permanent leadership and recruited an experienced cancer‑center director, Randy Holcomb, from Hawaii. Holcomb and others described recent progress in research, education, community…
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