We think we should be allowed to construct the building and if it is proved that
NIH owns the land, it should even be given control of the building,' he added.
The
NIH CRM was created to serve as a resource for the scientific community, providing stem cells and supporting protocols and standard operating procedures used to derive, culture, and differentiate the stem cells into different cell types.
Applications are then reviewed for scientific merit by a review group assembled by the
NIH Center for Scientific Research.
The final regulation will also allow
NIH employees more leeway to engage in outside activities with professional or scientific organizations, serve on data and safety monitoring boards, give grand rounds lectures, and perform scientific grant reviews.
Since so much is at stake when it comes to relationships between the
NIH and private industry, one might argue that the organization should flatly prohibit its intramural scientists from receiving any money for consulting with pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies.
The move is a reversal for Elias Zerhouni,
NIH director, who told Congress earlier this year that he did not favor a complete ban on industry interactions because these interactions are important in furthering science.
NIH proposes that all publications that arise from NIH-sponsored research be made available free to the public within six months after they have been published.
[section] 286) as a component of the National Institutes of Health (
NIH) in 1956 describes the mission of the library as collecting, preserving, and disseminating medical literature as well as making "available its bibliographic, reference, or other services, to public and private entities and individuals." NLM fulfilled this mission for many years by primarily serving health professionals, especially through the MEDLINE[R] database of references to millions of biomedical research publications.
A call to the
NIH by The Advocate was not returned, but the agency has said publicly that the purpose of its inquiries to researchers was to gather enough in formation on already-awarded grants to be able to defend them to Congress.
When Bill Clinton became President, the annual
NIH budget reached the milestone level of $10 billion.
NIH's partnership with BMS provided the company with the research results that enabled Taxol to be commercialized quickly and made available as a treatment for cancer patients.
The program assists investigators Dom academic institutions, nonprofit research institutions, and biotechnology and small pharmaceutical companies by providing access to
NIH contract resources for therapeutics development.
