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Your Mission – Should You Choose to Accept It

Posted on November 20, 2013 by |
A recent story in The Chronicle of Higher Education covered the complex relationship between academic research institutions and companies that purchase patent rights, but do not actually produce products.  Known variously as “non practicing entities” and “patent trolls” these companies…
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Stimulus Funding Given Quaaludes

Posted on November 20, 2013 by |
Episode 11 of a 12 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Sandra Nordahl, President, Society of Research Administrators International (SRA), to discuss the mission of SRA and the effects of sequestration on research administration.
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Posted on November 19, 2013 by |
Howdy all!  Just got back from the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) Annual Biological Safety Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.  While I now devote my time to managing the compliance modules here at InfoEd, it is always nice to visit…
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Posted on October 31, 2013 by |
In the current issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), there is an article entitled, “Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials: cross sectional analysis” (BMJ2013;347:f6104). The authors examined clinical trials on clinicaltrials.gov to determine if data from these trials is available to the…
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Posted on October 14, 2013 by |
To celebrate and promote the role of veterinary technicians, the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA) has proclaimed the third week of October (13th-19th) as National Veterinary Technician Week. The NAVTA would like to: Educate the public about…
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Posted on September 23, 2013 by |
It’s that time of year again, when the good folks at NIH are tidying up their FY2013 extramural award data. They published NOT-OD-13-117 last week encouraging institutional officials to review their award data in the RePORT system and submit any corrections by…
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The Dark World of Research Administrators

Posted on September 18, 2013 by |
Research administrators spend a lot of time trying to convince people of things. Whether it’s persuading senior leadership that additional staff will be needed to meet a new sponsor requirement or investigators to get their proposals in just a teeny bit…
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Rehab And Weight Loss

Posted on September 18, 2013 by |
Episode 10 of a 12 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Sandra Nordahl, President, Society of Research Administrators International (SRA), to discuss the mission of SRA and the effects of sequestration on research administration.
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Wait…What? IRB Budgets Are Up?

Posted on September 18, 2013 by |
I noticed a peculiarity in AAHRPP’s 2012 Metrics on Human Research Protection Program Performance updated in July. IRB budgets were… wait for it… UP! Budgets are returning to levels not seen since 2009 before the national and state economies took…
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