NCI Leaders Optimistic about Meeting President's Goal.

Current NCI Director Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD, and Douglas Lowy, MD, who will become acting director following Sharpless's departure from the institute at the end of April, are confident that the cancer community can reach President Joe Biden's goal to cut deaths from cancer in half within 25 years. They identified several opportunities to improve cancer screening, prevention efforts, and treatment that could contribute to a declining death rate.