Category: Director’s Column

The NIH has launched a new Web site, Medical Research with Animals: For Researchers and Institutions, as part of our work to support NIH-funded scientists using animal models.

Despite recent efforts, compliance issues with financial conflict of interest policies continue. The three major concerns are: too narrow a definition of investigator, the timing of reporting and ensuring subrecipients comply with the regulation.

To make sure that we are all protecting the information produced by federally funded research, I encourage everyone in the extramural community to consider their information security procedures carefully.

When we published our first NIH Extramural Nexus two years ago, we envisioned it as a two-way communication portal that would keep you informed of key developments in NIH extramural research policy, program and activities, while offering you a forum to stay engaged in the dialogue that affects our work.