Walther looks to change funding approach: Cancer institute’s shift in emphasis to grants worries some researchers
Walther Cancer Institute is shifting the way it spends millions of dollars on research every year, a move that adds an element of anxiety to some research labs at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The Indianapolis not-for-profit spent its first 20 years helping to build the research infrastructure at Purdue University, Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame by spending millions to pay the investigators who work there. Now, its leaders say they want to focus the money…