Dr. Francis Collins, who has led the National Institutes of Health since 2009, announced his retirement on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (read story here). Collins, 71, is a respected expert in the field of genetics, and a renowned “gene hunter” (bio here). He was appointed to head the NIH [...]
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December 11th, 2019 - 8:57 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Paul Volcker called out Trump’s “nihilistic movement” before he died. “They seek to discredit our democracy and truth itself.”
“Three months before he died, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker issued a scathing critique against President Donald Trump and the “movement to undermine Americans’ faith in our government and its policies and institutions,” CNBC reported on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. “In [...]
July 16th, 2019 - 12:05 pm § in Misc.
ORIGINS of the NIH: July 16, 1798 US establishes the Public Health Service
Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and disabled […][...]
August 7th, 2018 - 9:52 pm § in Politics
Missouri voters annihilate GOP’s “right to work” law
Missouri voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum overturning a Republican-passed “right to work” law Tuesday, by more than a 2-to-1 margin. It was a major victory for labor. “Right to work” laws, which exist in 27 states, are anti-union measures that keep wages low. Read st[...]
Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR, The National Endowment for the Arts and 1/5 of the NIH
Add 54 billion to the military, cut taxes, what is left? The Arts, Humanities and Science President Trump made good on a long-time conservative goal in his first proposed budget Thursday morning, trading a 54 billion dollar increase in defense spending for draconian cuts to the Corporation for[...]
DelBene Leads Effort to Fund NIH
DelBene Leads Bipartisan Letter Urging $2 Billion Boost for NIH More than 160 House members signed the bipartisan letter urging congressional leaders to prioritize biomedical research by increasing funding for NIH. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) led more than 160 Hou[...]
June 16th, 2015 - 4:43 am § in Misc.
June 16 .. the NIH begins
On June 16 the National Heart Act was signed. It authorized the National Heart Institute and changed the name of the National Institute of Health to National Institutes of Health. [...]
Will NIH Go Chapter 11? Higher Education and the NIH Face a Fiscal Cliff
Report on Looming Federal Budget Cuts ‘Confirms the Worst’ for Higher Education By Lee Gardner Washington The dire consequences of looming automatic cuts in the federal budget came into sharper focus on Friday with the release of a 394-page report by the White House Office of Mana[...]
September 14th, 2012 - 12:16 pm § in Misc.
SOCIAL SECURITY: NIH receives Funding Under Title VI of the Social Security Act
NIH: Chronology of Events 1700 | 1800 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 1700 1798 The Marine Hospital Service was established with the July 16 signing by President John Adams of an act for the relief of sick and […][...]
ANDREW APRIKYAN CONVICTED BY THE NIH
I have written a lot on THE-Ave.US and n this listserv about Andrew Aprikyan. Andrew is a scientist who was accused of fraud by an anonymous UW faculty member. The case was muddied because of patent issues involving the UW and, I assume, his accuser. The UW conducted its investigation in a manne[...]