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News

• Consolidate Human Research Oversight under Regional Ethics Boards, NIH Clinical Bioethics Department Proposes (10 December, 2015)
• HHS Human Subjects Advisory Committee Charter to be Expanded, Membership to be Reconstituted (10 December, 2015)
• AAMC Task Force Releases Recommendations on Institutional Conflicts of Interest (10 December, 2015)
• Institute of Medicine Urges Colleges to Improve Research Integrity (10 December, 2015)
• Percentage of NIH Grants to Young Investigators Decreases to 3.8% (10 December, 2015)
• NHGRI Plan for Future of Genomic Research to be Vetted at November Meeting of Scientists (10 December, 2015)
• NHGRI BAC-based Sequencing Program to be Terminated because of Lack of Demand (10 December, 2015)
• Cow and Dog Moved Up on Post-human Sequencing Priority List at NHGRI (10 December, 2015)
• NIH Stem Cell Task Force Examines Barriers to Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and Other Stem Cell Research-related News (10 December, 2015)
• Cancer Collaboration Set to Launch “Universal Portal” Site for Researchers and General Public (10 December, 2015)
• Proactively Shaping Control Arrangements Can Ensure Data Access, Duke's Reichman Tells Science Community (10 December, 2015)
• CDC Begins Chronic Disease Tracking Initiative (10 December, 2015)
• Patient Groups to Help Chart the Course of $20 Million NIEHS Parkinson's Initiative (10 December, 2015)
• Clinical Trials of Cancer Drugs Will Receive Funding of $6 Million (10 December, 2015)
• Withholding Sensitive Data from Publication Debated at Autumn NAS Workshop (10 December, 2015)
• Undergraduate Biology Education Fails to Keep Pace, NAS National Research Council Report Finds (10 December, 2015)
• NIH Health Disparities Elimination Plan Goes to NCMHD Advisory Council for Review (10 December, 2015)
• E-Grants Government-wide Electronic Application System Scheduled to Be Up and Running by October 1, 2003 (10 December, 2015)
• Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD, Selected to Receive the 15th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (10 December, 2015)
• Drexel Trustees Unanimously Approve Agreement with Tenet to Merge MCP Hahnemann University into Drexel University School of Medicine (10 December, 2015)
• Hackensack University Medical Center Recognized as Leader in Improving Health Care Quality: Initiatives Will Affect National Quality Improvement Efforts (10 December, 2015)