The OIG has issued a report entitled “How Grantees Manage Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research Funded by the National Institutes of Health.” The OIG identified a number of vulnerabilities in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee institutions’ identification, management, and oversight of financial conflicts of interest. For example, 90% of grantee institutions rely solely
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NIH Director Confirmed
By Debra A. McCurdy on
On August 7, 2009, the Senate confirmed Dr. Francis Collins as Director of the National Institutes of Health.
NIH Stem Cell Research Guidelines
By Debra A. McCurdy on
On July 7, 2009, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a notice its final “Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research.” The guidelines, which implement President Obama’s March 9, 2009 Executive Order on federal funding for stem cell research as it pertains to extramural NIH-funded stem cell research, establish policy and procedures under which …