The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed to trim the budget of the National Institutes of Healthby .6 percen, This would leave the NIH at $30.5 billion ,The Committee also proposes $582 million to launch the National Center for Advancing Translational Research, while eliminating the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NIH’
September 27th, 2011 - 8:38 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
BREAKING NEWS: NIH budget has modest cuts .. so far
The destructive myopia of the NIH study on grant funding and race
Michael Eisen, associate professor of molecular and cell biology FROM Its Not Junk Last week Science published a paperdescribing the results of an NIH-sponsored investigation into the impact of a scientist’s race on the probability of that their grants will be funded.The findings were striking[...]
Courts Make Bad Ruling on Who Owns a Gene
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 29, 2011 NY Times excerpted The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents on two human genes used to predict if women have an increased r[...]
August 1st, 2011 - 12:12 pm § in America
US Founds First Cancer Lab
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 […][...]
January 15th, 2011 - 8:56 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Francis Collins To Blocl 50% of Chimp Grants on Moral Grounds
Most Medical Research Using Chimps Isn’t Necessary, NIH Says December 15, 2011, 2:02 pm A report out today from the Institute of Medicine criticized most federally supported medical research on chimpanzees as unnecessary. Immediately afterward, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institut[...]