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HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Stabilizing Forces Recognizing the role of research professionals in today's laboratory organizations is important not only to the individuals who contribute their services but also to the research enterprise as a whole. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US funder mulls new emeritus award The US National Institutes of Health is exploring a new grant mechanism for emeritus faculty that would let senior investigators exit their NIH research grant supported role. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Amber Dance |
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times for Postdocs Fresh from a Ph.D. in virology, Nancy Van Prooyen is carving her own scientific niche. She's taking on the little-known fungal pathogen, Histoplasma capsulatum, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. |
Chemistry World August 31, 2015 |
The postdoc problem: too many, or the wrong kind? Are concerns about postdoc proliferation valid? Maybe we just need to make their training more diverse, suggests Keith Micoli |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 |
New International Competition for Early Career Scientists The biomedical competition is aimed at helping up to 35 early career scientists establish independent research programs. Scientists trained in the United States who are now running a lab in any eligible country may apply. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter Announces Plant Science Funding "Plant scientists have tremendous potential to help us understand -- and possibly find solutions to -- some of the most pressing concerns that face society." |
HBS Working Knowledge January 5, 2011 |
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress Society pays a high price for randomization of research support -- a fact that, sadly, is not recognized by the public, the media, or politicians. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Quotas proposed to back younger US researchers A US politician's plans to introduce quotas to ensure that the National Institutes of Health's grants go to younger researchers is receiving opposition from somewhat surprising quarters -- science advocacy groups. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 Paula Stephan |
Too many scientists? It may be hard to believe, but once there was a time when scientists (young and old), policy wonks and those in government worried about a shortage of trained individuals to conduct research. |
Geotimes August 2004 Sherwood Boehlert |
Making an Impact on the Hill At a time of increased spending on defense and homeland security, the prospects for a significant increase in the National Science Foundation budget are dim. |
Reason June 2005 Kerry Howley |
Scientists for Sale Innovation vs. ethics: Scientists at the NIH have discovered many things over the years, but evidently they haven't yet found a way to balance innovation and objectivity. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
Institute Launches New Investigator Competition These appointments will enable the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen its community of researchers and bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems. |
Chemistry World May 5, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US budget outlook concerns White House The spending plan for the fiscal year 2016 proposed by Republicans in Congress could harm America's scientific enterprise. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
Bush Budget Proposal Backs Physical Sciences US President George Bush wants to get the budget for physical sciences research back on track, but biomedical research could suffer in his budget proposals for 2009. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
President's Letter: Fundamentals for Uncertain Times The challenges in the scientific community are numerous. |
Chemistry World June 2, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
NIH-funded principal investigators fell sharply in 2010 A former senior leader at the US National Institutes of Health has found what he calls a 'startling' decline in the number of principal investigators funded by the agency from between 2010 and the present day. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Madeline Drexler |
The Indispensables Every research lab has behind-the-scenes specialists without whom modern science could not get done. Here are the stories of five indispensable lab team members, among many acknowledged by grateful HHMI investigators. |
Information Today September 13, 2004 Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
Geotimes November 2004 |
Open Access: Open Debate? Imagine any U.S. citizen having free and open access to research funded with tax dollars. That possibility could be closer to reality than ever before, but Congress must first address some important concerns |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 |
HHMI Offers International Student Research Fellowships New fellowship supports 48 international graduate students. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
The Building Block of Drug Discovery With Francis Collins now calling the shots at NIH, will be be able to deliver on the innovations behind the genome? |
Chemistry World September 17, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
US genomics lead being lost to China The head of the National Institutes of Health is warning that the US is lagging behind China in genomics. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US science funder updates policy on same sex partners Social change has led the US National Institutes of Health to update its policies. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US health agencies expands open access policy The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a plan to expand how its agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, make research results freely available to scientists and the public. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country. |
Chemistry World December 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US research agencies finally get their new budgets The US fiscal year 2016 appropriations, signed by President Obama on 18 December, provide $148.6 billion for federal research and development, an increase of 8.1% above current levels |
Chemistry World July 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Scientist imprisoned over fraudulent HIV vaccine research An ex-Iowa State University scientist has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for faking Aids vaccine research funded by the US National Institutes of Health |
Information Today June 6, 2005 Miriam A. Drake |
A Cauldron Bubbles: PubChem and the American Chemical Society A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 |
New Open Access Journal Gets Name and Editorial Team Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are a step closer to launching a top-tier journal with the recent announcement of the publication's editorial team and name. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
Guiding a Revolution in Science Francis Collins led the genomic revolution as director of the International Human Genome Project and director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH from 1993 to 2008. |