More recently,
she took on biomedical research policy and the National Institutes of Health.
Not exact matches
An NIH spokesperson tells Endpoints that Dr. Francis Collins, director of the
biomedical research agency, will stay
on as its head as Donald Trump
takes office.
But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained
biomedical researchers to
take their place
on faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators
on NIH
research grants.»
It is shocking that Science would
take the time and effort to highlight and chronicle the sentiments of someone whose sole mission is to derail
biomedical research that is dependent
on animal models.»
► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the
biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom
on its head: Students supported
on a
research grant are more likely to
take a
research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation spending # 750 million annually
on biomedical research, said: «We have needed to
take action against the development of antimicrobial resistance for more than 20 years.
The average chemist, for example, finishes postdoctoral work and
takes a permanent job at about age 33, said NIH Deputy Director for Extramural
Research Sally Rockey, who was
on the working group and headed the NIH task force charged with implementing the recommendations, at last week's meeting;
biomedical scientists,
on average, are about 6 years older than chemists when they attain a tenure - track faculty post.
Specifically this Notice: 1) develops principles based
on 20 years» experience of providing instruction in responsible conduct of
research by the scientific
research community; 2) is more specific about who should participate, how often instruction should occur, and the form that instruction should
take; 3) addresses issues that have arisen as the practice of
biomedical, behavioral and clinical science has evolved; and 4) provides guidance to applicants, peer reviewers and NIH staff in determining how well specific plans for instruction in responsible conduct of
research compare with the best practices accumulated over the past two decades by the
research training community.
Smith has
taken part in developing and applying advanced analytical methods and instrumentation, with an emphasis
on high - resolution separations and mass spectrometry, to environmental, biological and
biomedical research.