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Report on biosaftey labs in the developing world

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

A recent conference entitled “Safe and Secure Biomaterials: Matching Resources to Reality”, on Thursday 17 May 2012 at the Chatham House (UK) presented researchers with a disturbing report regarding the lack of biosafety controls that were found in “developing countries”. …

CDC publishes MMWR Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2010

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

The CDC has posted the latest Summary of Notifiable Diseases, which contains data for the year 2010. According to the CDC, “A notifiable disease is one for which regular, frequent, and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the…

Clarification of Position Statements on Implementation of the Guide

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

OLAW has updated the original (December 2011) Position Statements on the 8th Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, following an analysis of the public’s comments on their understanding of the Position Statements. In response to those comments,…

World’s first Stem cell drug treatment approved

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

Osiris Therapeutics’s drug Prochymal (remestemcel-L), for acute graft-versus host disease (GvHD), has been approved for marketing by regulators in Canada. The “drug” is approved for suppressing the immune system in patients that have received transplants, where the grafts attack the patients bodies. …

OLAW Seminar: Grants Policy and Congruence

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

From OLAW: Join us for a webinar: “Grants Policy and Congruence” on June 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM ET. Dr. Patricia Brown, OLAW Director, will discuss the requirements for assuring congruence between grant applications and what the IACUC has approved…

Need Ag Data Options? We (the USDA) Have You Covered from Beans to Sheep.

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Matthew Tanner |

From the USDA: In our never-ending quest to satisfy the agricultural community’s and general public’s thirst for information, USDA Market News is collaborating with data.gov to add custom reports to our portal websites USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) collects and…

NIH DRR Begins Communicating via the Commons

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Beginning today, May 25th, the NIH Division of Receipt and Referral – the folks who actually receive and administratively review most applications at NIH – correspondence will be handled via a new “Correspondence” section of the detailed status screen for…

SAM Implementation Delayed

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Roger Wood |

This note from Grants.gov’s blog… The General Services Administration (GSA) is moving the implementation date of the System for Award Management (SAM) from May 29, 2012 to the end of July 2012. The additional sixty days will allow federal agencies…

NIH Special Review for PIs with over $1.5 Million in annual Awards

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Roger Wood |

Today, the National Institutes of Health published NOT-OD-12-110, which describes a pilot to evaluate special council reviews investigator-initiated grants and cooperative agreement applications from PD/PIs with more than $1.5 million in annual NIH support. The goal is not to impose…

Get to Know SAM!

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Roger Wood |

SAM – the System for Award Management – is a new US Governments new website scheduled to go live on May 29th at Sam.gov. If you are a research administrator, you should care. Going online in phases, SAM will consolidate…