Presidential Award for Mentoring
September 2, 2011
I am pleased that the White House has re-announced the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
Charting a Renewed Course for Managing Financial Conflicts of Interest
August 23, 2011
I’m very pleased to announce that the Department of Health and Human Services is issuing a final rule in the Federal Register revising the regulations on financial conflicts of interest of extramural investigators.
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New NIH Study on Diversity
August 18, 2011
Let’s talk about the NIH sponsored study on review outcomes for R01 grant applications from different racial and ethnic groups and the accompanying commentary that were published in Science this week.
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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.
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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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Get Out From Under Educational Debt
August 4, 2011
Large educational debt is a barrier for young doctors and scientists who want to pursue research careers, and it has been a hot topic in the scientific community for many years.
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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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