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Released: 11-Oct-2021 12:20 PM EDT
Grant & Fellowship Opportunities in Health Policy Research
Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

The Neiman Health Policy Institute is accepting applications for its new grants and fellowship programs to fund novel research to inform health policy and radiology practice. Grant topics include payment models, AI/emerging technology, and practice advancements to improve efficiency, outcomes, or equity. For full details, please see the Grants & Fellowship page.

   
Released: 8-Oct-2021 9:00 AM EDT
American Thyroid Association Announces Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award Recipients
American Thyroid Association

The American Thyroid Association (ATA) celebrates the recipients of the 2021 Women Advancing Thyroid Research Award. This award recognizes and honors the work of young women that are leading outstanding thyroid research.

Released: 7-Oct-2021 7:00 AM EDT
Council on Undergraduate Research Issues Updated Definition of Undergraduate Research
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)

.The Undergraduate Research Definition Task Force of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) announced an updated definition for undergraduate research, reflecting the broadened scope for undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative inquiry as well as attention to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Released: 5-Oct-2021 1:40 PM EDT
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Justin Perry Honored with Distinguished NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Justin Perry, PhD, cell biologist and immunologist of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) has been named one of 64 recipients of the prestigious 2021 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. As part of the award, Dr. Perry will receive $1.5 million in direct costs split into two multi-year segments.

   
Released: 4-Oct-2021 4:25 PM EDT
AAN Issues Ethics Position Statement on Costly Drugs and Health Care
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the world’s largest association of neurologists with more than 36,000 members, is issuing a position statement which considers the ethical implications related to high drug costs. The statement is published in the October 4, 2021, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, and was developed by the Ethics, Law, and Humanities Committee, a joint committee of the AAN, American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society.

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Released: 1-Oct-2021 2:00 PM EDT
The latest research news in Archaeology and Anthropology
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“Throw me the idol; I’ll throw you the whip!” - From Raiders of the Lost Ark

     
Released: 1-Oct-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Failure to reach long-term budget deal disrupts biomedical research
Endocrine Society

Congress missed an opportunity to secure long-term funding for life-saving medical research in the midst of the pandemic.

   
Released: 27-Sep-2021 10:00 AM EDT
Rockefeller University Press Secures Transformative Journal Status from cOAlition S
The Rockefeller University Press

Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has attained Plan S compliant Transformative Journal status from cOAlition S. Authors receiving funding from members of cOAlition S may be eligible to have their Immediate Open Access (OA) fees covered in Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP).

Released: 17-Sep-2021 2:50 PM EDT
Chemical Biologist Eric Wang joins Sanford Burnham Prebys
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Eric Wang, Ph.D., has joined Sanford Burnham Prebys as an assistant professor in the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program. Wang comes to Sanford Burnham Prebys from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he was a postdoctoral research fellow.

Released: 17-Sep-2021 1:05 PM EDT
Texas A&M project to create a more inclusive scientific community
Texas A&M AgriLife

Engaging underrepresented students to create diversity in agriculture and life science fields represents a pressing challenge for the scientific community.

Released: 13-Sep-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Columbia Awarded $61.7 Million to Accelerate Development of New Medical Treatments
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

A five-year, $61.7 million grant to the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons will help medical researchers speed the application of scientific discoveries, so that new treatments can be delivered to patients faster.

Released: 8-Sep-2021 11:45 AM EDT
Article of the Year!
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) honors research led by Anne Teitelman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, Associate Professor Emerita in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, as the 2021 JANAC (Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care) Article of the Year.

Released: 2-Sep-2021 1:45 PM EDT
Exploring the Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship Disputes
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new paper co-authored by Georgia Tech found that women — as compared to their male counterparts — receive less credit for the work they put into academic publications, more frequently experience authorship disputes, and often end up losing out on opportunities for future collaboration as a result.

Released: 31-Aug-2021 8:25 AM EDT
Groundbreaking ideas from women scientists get less attention
Ohio State University

Scientists are less likely to adopt important new ideas in biomedicine introduced by women researchers, a new study has found.

Released: 19-Aug-2021 3:00 PM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Breakthrough Cases and COVID Boosters: Live Expert Panel for August 18, 2021
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Expert Q&A: Do breakthrough cases mean we will soon need COVID boosters? The extremely contagious Delta variant continues to spread, prompting mask mandates, proof of vaccination, and other measures. Media invited to ask the experts about these and related topics.

Released: 19-Aug-2021 10:10 AM EDT
Rockefeller University Press Announces Free Read-and-Publish for Developing Countries
The Rockefeller University Press

To address equity in Open Access publishing and promote important global research, publication fees for Immediate Open Access under CC-BY license in Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP) are automatically waived for corresponding authors based in eligible developing countries. This includes deposit in PubMed Central (PMC) and archive in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico.

Released: 3-Aug-2021 9:30 AM EDT
The George Washington University Partners with Student Defense, Columbia University to Launch Higher Education Research Initiative
George Washington University

Today the George Washington University, along with Student Defense and Columbia University, launched the Postsecondary Equity & Economics Research (PEER) Project.

Released: 29-Jul-2021 12:35 PM EDT
NYU Langone Health Named Coordinating Center for American Heart Association Health Equity Research Network to Prevent Hypertension in Black Communities
NYU Langone Health

As part of a $20 million award from the America Heart Association, NYU Grossman School of Medicine has been named as the coordinating center for a new collaboration between eight universities to prevent hypertension and reduce racial inequities in cardiovascular disease outcomes in Black communities.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 8:00 AM EDT
DORA receives $1.2M grant from Arcadia to accelerate research assessment reform
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), an initiative that operates under the sponsorship of the American Society for Cell Biology, has been awarded a 3-year, $1.2M grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

   


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