Biomedical research in
Australia is largely funded through the National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC https://www.nhmrc.gov.au),
which is the Australian equivalent of the NIH. Multiple...
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This document contains my comments to the
National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Sustaining the
Biomedical Workforce and a Potential Emeritus Award for Senior Researchers”, as
su...
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This document contains my comments to the
National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding
Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of
Biom...
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On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the blog post
“Eroding
Benefits for UMD postdocs?” caused quite a stir (Benderley,
2015). Such a stir, in fact, that the post was soon taken down, and revised
(you can ...
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Recent studies report the effect of biofield treatment on changes in structural characteristics of organic and inorganic matter, on cancer cells in vitro and on overall plant development. This stud...
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In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the biomedical research agency, equivalent to the NIH in the US, the ANR in France or the CIHR in Canada that distributes t...
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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
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Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in
2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we
publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
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