Rick Perry gave a pep talk at the annual meeting of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas that has been shaken after mass resignations in protest of politics and cronyism.
In an unannounced visit reported by the Associated Press, Perry told those gathered for the meeting that the state?s $3 billion cancer-fighting fund has elevated Texas into the worldwide conversation about the disease.
In the past few weeks, CPRIT has been rocked by the resignation of two Nobel laureates and more than 30 peer reviewers who questioned the integrity of the funding process.
Their resignations have followed a $20 million award from the research fund to MD Anderson hospital and Rice University for drug discovery that had not been subject to a review process. Officials say it bypassed normal procedures because it was a commercialization effort that didn?t need scientific review.
Chief scientific officer Alfred Gilman resigned in May, complaining in emails that the process was becoming politicized.
Perry did not address the controversy during brief remarks to a ballroom of scientists and researchers, according to AP, but he praised the peer-review process and the agency?s oversight board, some of whom Perry appointed.
Agency leaders have repeatedly denied that politics are guiding funding decisions.
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