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Congress passes NIH budget

By Kerry Grens | December 19, 2007

Both chambers of Congress this afternoon (December 19) agreed to a suite of government spending bills that included roughly $29 billion for the National Institutes of Health, according to Nancy Granese from the Campaign for Medical Research. This budget, for FY08, is $130 million more than FY07. The linkurl:raise;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54025 was smaller than some medical and research organizations had hoped for. In a press release from CMR, the group's chairman, G. Steven Bur

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NIH grants for human microbe work

By Bob Grant | December 19, 2007

The National Institutes of Health linkurl:launched;http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2007/od-19.htm a project today (Dec. 19) aimed at linkurl:sequencing;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/53647/ the myriad linkurl:microbes;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/53643/ that inhabit the human body. NIH has already awarded several millions of dollars in grant money to researchers engaging in the Human Microbiome Project, and linkurl:more grant money;http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/grants

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Alberts move to Science hailed

By Alison McCook | December 18, 2007

Bruce Alberts' colleagues are -- not surprisingly -- celebrating his decision to be the 18th editor-in-chief of Science, which the journal announced Monday (December 17). "I don't think [the journal] could have picked a better person," Peter Walter, chairman of the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, told The Scientist. The announcement followed months of speculation, during which Alberts' name linkurl:emerged;http://www

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FDA approves race-tested drug

By Kerry Grens | December 18, 2007

The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday (December 17) linkurl:approved;http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01757.html a beta blocker that I wrote about last month in an linkurl:article;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53869 about the value of race-based medicine. The FDA's approval notice did not mention any particular race or ethnicity, and a linkurl:press release;http://www.frx.com/news/PressRelease.aspx?ID=1088188 from the drug's manufacturer noted that the drug, nebiv

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Hwang back to research?

By Andrea Gawrylewski | December 18, 2007

Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist, is part of a research team in South Korea requesting permission to work on human embryonic stem cells, the Associated Press linkurl:reported;http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/17/asia/AS-GEN-SKorea-Hwang-Stem-Cell.php yesterday. Hwang was one of eight researchers from the Suam Biotechnology Institute, a lab he linkurl:founded;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/23737/ last year, who filed the request, an anonymous official

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Open access lives in NIH bill

By Bob Grant | December 18, 2007

A provision mandating public access to research published by NIH-funded scientists has survived in the linkurl:funding bill;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54025/ making its way through Congress this week. The provision was originally part of a funding bill that President George W. Bush linkurl:vetoed;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53858/ last month. It mandates that the NIH adopt a policy requiring agency-funded scientists to post their published research on the agency's p

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Bruce Alberts new Science chief

By Alison McCook | December 17, 2007

I just received a call from Science - the new editor in chief is Bruce Alberts. The journal made him the offer, and he accepted over the weekend. Alberts will assume his duties March 1. Current editor-in-chief Don Kennedy will remain in the position until then. AAAS spokesperson Ginger Pinholster said I was the first call she made with the news. Alberts was linkurl:one of many names;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53603/ that surfaced during the months of speculation over who woul

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Kessler out as UCSF dean

By Ivan Oransky | December 17, 2007

The University of California, San Francisco fired dean David Kessler on Thursday, after he refused a request to resign earlier in the year. In linkurl:announcements;http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200712144.html about the firing on Friday, Kessler and the university noted that he had raised questions about the school's finances, but that the university had denied there were any improprieties. In June, the school asked him to step down by January 1, but he refused. After his firing, Kessle

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Small raise for NIH, CDC budgets

By Kerry Grens | December 17, 2007

The latest proposal for the 2008 budget for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives the agencies a slight bump over last year's levels. Over the weekend, Congress prepared a new version of appropriations following President George Bush's linkurl:veto;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53858 of previous bill in November. This new bill includes $760 million less for NIH and $240 million less for CDC than the vetoed bill, according to linkur

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Another bump for Boston biolab

By Alla Katsnelson | December 14, 2007

Plans for a Biosafety Level 4 containment linkurl:lab;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23468/ at Boston University hit another bump in the road yesterday (December 13), when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that the state's environmental approval process for the project had been deeply flawed. The assessment echoed a recent National Research Council linkurl:review,;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53944/ which concluded last month that the NIH had al

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