Not exact matches
Just earlier this
year, security firm Malwarebytes discovered Mac malware that was reportedly spying
on computers in
biomedical research centers.
The Scripps
Research Institute is
on the road to become financially independent within three to five
years, the nonprofit
biomedical institute's CEO said last week.
He oversaw a budget of approximately $ 2 billion per
year focused primarily
on basic
biomedical research and
research training.
In the second letter, Frankie L. Trull, writing
on behalf of the National Association for
Biomedical Research, expressed concern about what she perceived as an overly sympathetic tone, noting that «[f] or
years, many
biomedical researchers, their staff, and their families have been egregiously targeted by PETA and understandably are demoralized.
On 28 October, she told the Boston Chamber of Commerce that Congress needs «to double our investment in scientific and
biomedical research and create more
year - to -
year certainty for that funding.»
Meredith joined Science as a staff writer focusing
on neuroscience in September 2016, after covering
biomedical research and its politics from Washington, D.C., for 20
years.
After just 5
years in Canada, Tim Hughes is already making his mark
on the nation's
biomedical research community.
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.
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.
Government plans for an ambitious framework of laws
on all
biomedical issues including embryo
research were dropped after widespread opposition three
years ago.
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.
According to a widely disseminated statistic from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ph.D.
biomedical researchers are,
on average, 38
years old when they get a permanent faculty post and 42 when they get their first major
research grant.
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.
This
year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our
biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog
on how C. elegans models are used to study aging).
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers, awarded for the first time in 2006, is conferred once a
year by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation
on a young investigator working in Germany for his or her outstanding achievements in the field of
biomedical research.
For more than 120
years, WRAIR has been the primary leader in
biomedical research on diseases that impact the military such as malaria and dengue fever.
In my work
on RNAi, and indeed during the 25
years I have been engaged in
biomedical research, I have had one foot in basic
research and the other in translational work, seeking to apply new understanding of biology to improving patient treatment.