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Canada’s federal government is ending a 30-year-old research funding program, the Networks of Centres of Excellence, leaving researchers uncertain about where future funding will come from, The Globe and Mail reports. The program will be phased out over the course of the next three years, according to a spokesperson for Science Minister Kirsty Duncan.
“It is disappointing to be cut off at the knees,” John Bell, scientific director of BioCanRx, a network of researchers developing immunotherapies to treat cancer, tells the Ottawa Citizen. BioCanRx has been funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program since its founding in 2015 and had expected the money to last a total of 15 years.
NCE supports a variety of scientific topics, including the Stem Cell Network, which conducts stem cell and regenerative medicine research, as well as ArticNet, which focuses on the effects of climate change on ...
