IN RESPONSE TO VIEWERS'S QUESTIONS ABOUT CPRIT

Yes, CPRIT is going to resume operations soon!
We cannot tell when.
There has been complete silence from the Organization.
Activities and news about CPRIT have focused on the lack of actual oversight by the District Attorney Greg Abott who had appointed someone who missed a third of CPRIT critical meetings.  DA Abott is now runing for the governorship in Texas!
CPRIT has 595 Millions in its coffers to give to mostly University projects.  So we will hear sooner or later about this organization before the year ends.  Based on its past performance, we expect that close to half of the money will go to 3 universities.  We refuse to comment on the rest.  There is no official news at CPRIT but you know the grapevine is still hard at work. We refuse to add to speculations.  But we should mention that El Paso did not get its fair share the first time around with less than 1% of CPRIT grant attribution gone to the 4th City in Texas!  And don't say we did not try to apply!  CRBCM alone submitted 7 grant applications, none met somehow the political muscle requirements for funding!  Now we are thinking we have a better chance with Deutche Krebshiffe, the Swiss Federal Government and Bundes Ministerium fur Bildung und Forschung than from CPRIT!  In fact we got a UK funding for our genetic research being completed with UTEP help!  The same project kindly declined by CPRIT!
How the new CPRIT will meet its expected many " raisons d'etre" is still to be seen.  Abandoning its mission to Universities was the first achievement of the first dance...and we know what it led us to...let's wait and see the 2nd round...lets see how it meets the disparity challenge, and how it meets covering the whole Texas challenge...Remember all Taxpayers are coming together in this.  The story of this organization will be talked about by historians for years to come!  New leaders are being put into place, let's give them a chance to shine and amaze us! Take us to the cure of cancer!