Meg assists
biomedical research and policy groups write persuasively about their work to professional and lay audiences in order to help them achieve their professional goals.
SEATTLE — Supercomputing's roles in
biomedical research and policy making will be discussed by U.S. Department of Energy chief scientist Dimitri Kusnezov at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Allen Institute in Seattle.
She now focuses on stories about
biomedical research and policy.
Not exact matches
Evolution was not correctly taught if you believe that it is a belief or a mere theory in the colloquial sense, that it unnecessarily complicates the world,
and that understanding how organisms change over time is not crucial for environmental
policy, agriculture
and biomedical research.
Sam Kean Contributing Correspondent Writes about biomedicine
and biomedical research,
and science
policy.
«We're at a remarkable moment in
biomedical research and its potential for making advances,» said Collins during a March 27 presentation on federal agency priorities on the opening day of the 42nd AAAS Science & Technology
Policy Forum held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.
«With the rise of new
and unproven stem cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand
and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in science
and technology
policy and an expert on ethical
and policy issues related to
biomedical research and development.
Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical
and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in
biomedical and behavioral
research, improving patient safety
and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet,
and intellectual property
and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.
Bioethicists have said that they expect the new commission to be more
policy - oriented
and pragmatic than its predecessor, which focused largely on philosophical
and moral issues involved in
biomedical research.
Since
policy issues are influenced by scientists, I am indeed passionate about the need for the
biomedical research community to be vigilant in its responsibility to correctly interpret
and communicate its findings.
«Today, the role of patients as partners permeates the R&D landscape,»
and «[t] he past year has ushered in a «perfect storm» of
policy initiatives in
biomedical research and opportunities for patient engagement,» the authors wrote.
While he has offered few details on
policies for
biomedical research, Trump said last year that he has heard «terrible» things about the US National Institutes of Health; he has also derided NASA as a «logistics agency for low - Earth orbit activity ``,
and said he would expand the role of the commercial space industry in the US space programme.
The NIH has not funded new
research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health
policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in
biomedical and behavioral
research.
More recently, she took on
biomedical research policy and the National Institutes of Health.
In a major
policy shift that is reverberating across the
biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it plans to cap the number of grants an investigator can hold in order to free up funding for early - career scientists
and those struggling to keep their labs afloat.
To the
biomedical research community, she was refreshingly «frank
and open,» says Tony Mazzaschi, senior director for
policy and research at the Association of Schools
and Programs of Public Health in Washington, D.C. «She will be sorely missed.»
As UCSF's first vice chancellor for science
policy and strategy, Keith Yamamoto leads efforts to anticipate the needs of an increasingly dynamic
biomedical research endeavor,
and to position UCSF optimally, by working within the university as well as influencing
and shaping science
policy at the state
and national levels
and beyond.
In this position she is using her
research expertise in
biomedical and biophysical chemistry
and her analytical skills to help address the nation's problems while learning about federal
policy making.
They will include
research and analysis on a wide range of
policy issues impacting
biomedical research and its clinical application,
and summarizing those analyses for different audiences.
Thus far, much of the conversation about postdocs
and their roles in the scientific workforce has been enmeshed in wider discussions of
biomedical research policy [9,10].
The ACD advises the NIH Director on
policy matters important to the NIH mission of conducting
and supporting
biomedical and behavioral
research,
research training,
and translating
research results for the public.