@article{ca8c67ef0f4b4aeca74cfd0246f4dde1,
title = "The future of cancer research after COVID-19 pandemic: Recession?",
keywords = "COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, cancer, ethics, funds, research, trials",
author = "Kourie, {Hampig Raphael} and Roland Eid and Fady Haddad and Marwan Ghosn and Sarkis, {Dolla Karam}",
note = "Funding Information: Cancer research will be facing one of the most critical recession in its history due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. The consequences will be crucial not only on the short-term (next few months) but also on the long-term (following years). From an economical perspective, medical research can be funded by the government, cancer societies, pharmaceutical companies or other charitable entities, such as in the UK. During this pandemic, governments in Europe, UK, USA and Australia, maintained their funding for biomedical research, prolonged deadlines for grants submissions and virtualized peer-review panels. However, research that is driven by charitably funded entities or public fundraising, was subject to budget restriction following the decline in economic growth imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak. In fact, Cancer Research UK, the charity responsible for funding about half of all UK cancer research, cut its research budget by 10% this year while also postponing the funds for new research projects for at least the first half of 2020. This resulted from the reduction of supporters{\textquoteright} donations, on which Cancer Research UK relies [7]. The American Cancer Society also warned about the detrimental effects of the pandemic on the economy and donations, limiting its ability to normally fund grants for the next cycle of 2020. Furthermore, the Canadian Cancer Society estimates a drop in donation of around half of its budget in the upcoming year, around 100 million Canadian dollars [7].",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
doi = "10.2217/fon-2020-0397",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "1493--1495",
journal = "Future Oncology",
issn = "1479-6694",
publisher = "Future Medicine Ltd.",
number = "21",
}