Sentences with phrase «at federal labs»

Two months after safety breaches at federal labs first set off a public furor, top health officials are auditioning new checks on worker safety including specialized time - lapse cameras and digital worksheets to track crucial steps such as bacterium inactivation.

Andrew Hebbeler, assistant director for biological and chemical threats in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smallpox.

It is not uncommon (e.g. Eli knows of cases where) the substantial majority of people working at a Federal Lab, under government management, are contractors.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) said in letter dated March 18 that it planned to revoke the lab's federal license and ban Holmes and Theranos's president, Sunny Balwani, from owning other labs for at least two years, the WSJ said.

Many things under way at Other Lab relate to a DARPA project on programmable matter (DARPA being the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the famous federal government research laboratory in which far - fetched ideas are pursued until they become not - so - far - fetched.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Last month, Ryan Zagone, Director of Regulatory Relations at Ripple Labs, was elected to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments Task Force Steering Committee where he will work with industry members to engage stakeholders in payments and advance the vision outlined in the Fed's January report.

At 1 p.m., US Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hold a press conference to announce federal bill to help launch small businesses, Urban Future Lab at N.Y.U. Polytechnic School of Engineering, 15 Metro Tech Center, BrooklyAt 1 p.m., US Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hold a press conference to announce federal bill to help launch small businesses, Urban Future Lab at N.Y.U. Polytechnic School of Engineering, 15 Metro Tech Center, Brooklyat N.Y.U. Polytechnic School of Engineering, 15 Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn.

Federal energy officials are weighing whether to greenlight the $ 600 million project, and, if approved, whether to put it at Brookhaven or the Jefferson National Lab in Newport News, Virginia.

Applicants who hold a temporary / term - limited fellowship or post-doc with a federal agency are considered eligible, as are post-docs at national labs who are funded by a federal agency.

Given that federal law and regulations shape much of what happens in the labs that do government - funded research, such steps could, at least in theory, make a difference.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

Accidents at universities have also drawn scrutiny of federal oversight of labs that work with select agents, a list of risky viruses, bacteria, and toxins that could potentially be used to cause harm.

In collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in cultured mouse embryonic stem cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis virus.

Federal - government - run labs include one at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and one at the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Maryland, a biological - warfare research center.

Also critical: If an investigator's lab runs on federal funding from NIH, he or she should talk to a scientific officer at the agency early on, to double - check that the start - up plans won't run afoul of government conflict - of - interest rules.

A federal investigation into animal research labs at the University of Utah has flagged several infractions, but concludes that overall the labs are «in good order.»

The mandatory across - the - board federal cuts known as sequestration slashed $ 1.55 billion from NIH's budget this year and will result in belt - tightening at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in 2012.

And Einstein's lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the patent office where he worked in Bern have both been re-created.

The finds came as part of a sweep for select agents at NIH and other federal agencies launched after six vials of live smallpox dated 1954 were found in July in a cold storage room in an FDA lab on the NIH campus.

But as Retraction Watch reports, a federal district court judge ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction in this case because the plaintiffs haven't yet exhausted the administrative process set up to handle misconduct investigations at federally funded labs.

Rohlfing made the comments as more than 60 leaders representing various fields of science, academia, federal agencies, and professional scientific societies gathered on 9 Sept. to begin working on a framework to guide scientific organizations on how best to take on sexual and gender - based harassment on campuses, in scientific labs, during field research, and at scientific meetings.

The Long Island Solar Farm located at Brookhaven National Lab is the largest photovoltaic array in the eastern U.S., and among the largest in the nation constructed on federal property.

With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.

The federal government is funding a unique collaboration between the Kennedy and Jasper labs aimed at maintaining the regenerative power of adult stem cells.

July 14, 2015 Ci3 awarded $ 1.2 M NIH grant to boost STEM, health literacy among urban teens The Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC Design Lab), a signature program for the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago, has received a five - year, $ 1.2 million federal grant to investigate gameplay and game design as a way to enhance science and health education for minority groups.

The Education Redesign Lab will be positioned — with early research findings, design models, a constituency, and national visibility — to play a significant role in advocating for policy change at the local, state, and federal levels.

The Learning Lab will feature a discussion on federal policy featuring Libby Doggett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Linda K. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

As an OU alum, I am both horrified and disappointed at the news that one of its research labs is under federal investigation for a dog electrocution citation as well as other violations, according to KOCO.com.

At the federal level, breeders are regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a law that outlines basic care requirements for the millions of animals living in roadside zoos, puppy mills, and research labs across the country.

OCCRI is a climate change research network of more than 150 researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Southern Oregon University, and affiliated federal and state labs.

A US science gap example is underinvestment in 4gen nuclear at all federal levels (national labs, DoE, NSF) compared to China.

NASA's Gavin Schmidt even throws out a challenge: «Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab).

Later, Rabett Run will discuss the case where lab management has been put out to the highest bidder and pretty much no one works directly for the federal government (most DOE labs, JPL, etc.), but here Eli is talking about how many are hired on contracts with universities and private corporations, but work full time at government facilities alongside civil servants.

The intent for the program's three - person team, all of whom previously worked at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University, is to continue science, outreach, and advocacy work on climate change but without the limitations that come with a federal job, like working on agency priorities, managing a big lab, or avoiding political activities during work.

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