A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
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Experts in Washington have reached an agreement over how to fund avian influenza research.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
A researcher tries and fails to garner support for petitions to increase the National Institutes of Health’s budget as sequestration looms.
Biomedical groups propose a simplified system for the disclosure of potential conflicts of interests.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
An estimated 360 million Euros from the coffers of EU research funding was spent mistakenly; auditors blame overly complicated funding rules.
NIH Director Francis Collins touts the project to map neural connections in the human brain as recording the mind’s “symphony.”
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