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Posted on April 18, 2014 by |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Agency for healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced in notice NOT-OD-14-074 published yesterday that effective immediately, they will no longer be assessing the similarity of the science in a new application to that of…
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Posted on April 15, 2014 by |
The final report of the 2012 Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Faculty Workload Survey is now available via the <a href="http://thefdp click this over here now.org” onclick=”_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘outbound-article’, ‘http://thefdp.org’, ‘FDP website’]);” target=”_blank”>FDP website. Tabulating results from over 13,000 faculty representing 111…
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Posted on April 15, 2014 by |
While neither the only nor the first to offer similar advice, the recent paper by Alberts, et al., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws, is the most recent and one of the…
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Posted on April 10, 2014 by |
The STAR METRICS (Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effect of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science) project grew out of a collaboration between federal agencies and academic institutions – members of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) – in…
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Posted on April 10, 2014 by |
A Perspective on Women in Research Compliance As a consultant I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of Research Compliance (IRB and IACUC) offices across the country as well as working exclusively in one for several years and…
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Posted on April 10, 2014 by |
Recently, the NIH Clinical Center Directors Annual Report was released by the National Institutes of Health.  The NIH Clinical Center is the “world’s largest hospital completely dedicated to clinical research”.  In addition to detailing this year’s achievements, this year marks…
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Posted on March 17, 2014 by |
Episode 7 of a 9 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Campbell Thomson, Director Research Services at The University of Western Australia, to discuss Research Administration “down under.”
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Science in the Public Eye

Posted on March 17, 2014 by |
Science is a common topic in the news today – the new Cosmos series, climate science, STEM education, genetically modified crops, stem cells, new drugs and vaccines, exploring Mars and beyond, evolution, pollution, nuclear waste, dinosaurs, even the President’s proposed…
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Posted on March 17, 2014 by |
Choices. Decisions. At the highest level they can be classified as either easy or hard ones.  On a wholly separate plane are the difficult decisions that need to be made where the option to choose the “right” thing to do…
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