Heads Up: Workforce Request for Information on the Way
August 15, 2011
As I’ve mentioned before, a working group of the Advisory Committee to the Director is examining the future of the research biomedical workforce.
Author: Sally Rockey
Weigh in on New Ideas for NIH Common Fund Programs!
August 10, 2011
What do the NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards, Early Independence Awards, Transformative R01 Awards, Clinical and Translational Science Awards, and the Human Microbiome Project all have in common?
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Help Update the Human Subjects Regulations
July 28, 2011
Ensuring that individuals are protected when they participate as research subjects is vital to maintaining the public’s trust in the research we support.
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On the Drawing Board: Fed-wide Researcher Profiles
July 22, 2011
This week, members of my staff went to a meeting to kick off a project that has long been of interest to me, development of a fed-wide system for collecting professional profile information for our investigators.
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Some Thoughts on Peer Review
July 15, 2011
There has been much talk on the peer review process in our blog comments recently. At NIH we are extremely proud of our peer review system and its acceptance as one of the premier systems of peer review around the world.
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The Time is Right for NCATS
July 6, 2011
My boss, Dr. Francis Collins, has just published an article in Science Translational Medicine describing why the time is right to establish the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH.
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Application Tips from the Regional Seminar
June 30, 2011
Last week, I was in Weston, Florida participating in our second and final NIH Regional Seminar of this year.
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Help Reduce Administrative Burden and Costs
June 28, 2011
This is your chance to have input on an important issue that greatly impacts the research community each and every day.
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Who Are We?
June 23, 2011
As part of our effort to characterize the community that is supported by NIH, we looked at the degrees held by NIH-supported principal investigators (PIs) and whether the composition of that population has changed over the years.
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Clinical Center to Open Doors to Grantees?
June 17, 2011
Last week at the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director meeting, John Gallin, head of the NIH Clinical Center, and I presented the early progress of a committee developed to examine how we can promote the Clinical Center as a national resource by extending its capabilities to you, the extramural community.
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