A new report explores the potential for pharmacogenomics (PGx) to advance the development of strategies to improve the safety and quality of health care; identify opportunities and barriers in need of the Federal Government’s attention; and make policy recommendations to enhance the development and integration of PGx applications.

The NIH Program on Clinical Research Policy Analysis and Coordination recently augmented their bioethics resources on the web with the addition of a compilation of international guidelines, codes, regulations, policies, and declarations.

NIH revised its policy on mentored K award recipients receiving concurrent support from their K award and a competing research grant.

Effective immediately, trainees and fellows may receive stipends for up to 60 calendar days of parental leave per year for the adoption or the birth of a child when those in comparable training positions at the grantee organization have access to this level of paid leave for this purpose.

Earlier this week I sent the following public access reminder letter to all principal investigators and signing officials with current NIH grant funding.

On March 1, OER’s new “Protecting Human Research Participants” Web-based training officially replaced the National Cancer Institute’s “Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams”.

The Office of Extramural Research’s Division of Information Services (DIS) this month launched a public prototype of its Reports, Data, and Analyses (RDA) Web site, which will eventually replace the current Award Information and Data page.

New FCOI FAQs Available on the OER Web site.

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare is encouraging institutions and their investigators to review new FAQs on the OLAW Web site.

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) issued guidance last month to grantee institutions on its revision to the sample Animal Welfare Assurance document.