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FDA Extends Comment Period on Draft IDE Guidance

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Matthew Tanner | 0 Comments

FDA has announced a new deadline of March 9, 2012, for submission of public comments regarding its draft guidance entitled, “FDA Decisions for Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Clinical Investigations”, which was originally published in the Federal Register on November 10,…

12th CDC International Symposium on Biosafety

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Matthew Tanner | 0 Comments

Registration is now open for the 12th CDC International Symposium on Biosafety, “2012 Sustainability: People, Practices, Planet” to be held in Atlanta, GA from February 13-15th. Conference information can be found on the main CDC Biosafety website and on The…

Brain interface research demonstrates perception feedback in Primates

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Matthew Tanner | 0 Comments

A recent letter to Nature describes a series of experiments involving rhesus macaque monkeys and Brain-Machine-Brain-Interfaces (BMBIs), in which these animals were able to move an object with their thoughts, and could recognize the texture of the objects they touched…

NIH halts new Awards for Chimpanzee Research

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Matthew Tanner |

In response to the December 15, 2011, report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) entitled “Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity”, the NIH issued a press release entitled, “Statement by NIH Director Dr.…

UK Academy of Medical Science publishes report on animals containing human materials

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Matthew Tanner |

In July 2011, the Academy of Medical Science (UK) issued a report “Animals containing human material”, abbreviated ACHM, that described the need for a formal governing system or body that reviews research involving genetically modified animals that contain human gene…

IOM Recommends limits on Chimpanzee research

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Matthew Tanner |

On December 15, 2011, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) published a report entitled “Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity” in response to a request from the NIH and Congress. The consensus report was…

Select Agents – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Matthew Tanner | 0 Comments

On October 3, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), located within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register (76 FR 61206) requesting public comment on the appropriateness…

NIH Salary Cap – Reduced to Exec Level II

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Roger Wood |

The US Congress passed an omnibus bill to fund remaining government departments including the NIH late last week and over the weekend. In the final bill, the NIH salary cap was set at Executive Level II, currently $179,700. This represents…

US Government Avoids Another Shutdown… House Passes Spending Bill

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Roger Wood |

Before leaving for home Friday evening, the House approved an omnibus spending bill that includes $30.7 billion for NIH, which is $299 million above last year’s appropriation but is $758 million less than the President’s budget request. The Senate is…

US Transparency Board – Report & Recommendations

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Roger Wood |

In a report released this week, The Government Accountability and Transparency Board (GATB) made several recommendations to improve federal spending transparency. Recommendations include: (1) Expanding on tools and techniques developed by the Transparency Board through its Recover Operations Center and…