Federal Support of Biomedical Research in American Universities

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-442
Author(s):  
W. D. McElroy
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Federal Support

scholarly journals Becoming more transparent: Collecting and presenting data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L Pickett ◽  
Shirley Tilghman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Career Outcomes ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
American Universities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Association Of American Universities

For more than 20 years, panels of experts have recommended that universities collect and publish data on the career outcomes of Ph.D. students. However, little progress has been made. Over the past few years, a handful of universities, including those in the National Institutes of Health’s Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training consortium, and organizations, including the Association of American Universities and the Association of American Medical Colleges, launched projects to collect and publish data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni. Here, we describe the outcome of a meeting, convened by Rescuing Biomedical Research, of universities and associations working to improve the transparency of career outcomes data. We were able to achieve consensus on a set of common methods for alumni data collection and a unified taxonomy to describe the career trajectories of biomedical Ph.D.s. These materials can be used by any institution, with little or no modification, to begin data collection efforts on their Ph.D. alumni. These efforts represent an important step forward in addressing a recommendation that has been made for decades that will improve the ability of trainees to better plan for their careers and for universities to better tailor their training programs.

Biomedical research support today

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Q. Marston
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
Directed Research ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The Director of the National Institutes of Health discusses contemporary phenomena related to Federal support of biomedical research, particularly the separate roles of individually motivated and “targeted” or directed research. He appraises the “normal oscillations” affecting the appropriation and allocation of Federal support and concludes by emphasizing the significance of the relationship of these factors to each other.

scholarly journals An Interview with Professor Jonathan King. Part I: on Social Responsibility and Activism in Academia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manraj Gill ◽  
Dylan McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Virus Assembly ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
Biophysical Society ◽  
Martin Luther King

For nearly four decades, Prof. King has served as a faculty member in the Department of Biology at MIT. His work on protein folding and, importantly, misfolding as they relate to human disease and virus assembly has garnered numerous awards and honors: He was a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, Jane Coffin Childs Fund Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit Award. Additionally, Prof. King has taken critical roles at the intersection of science and public policy, including a tenure as President of the Biophysical Society in 1999. In 2003, he received the MIT Martin Luther King Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals who “embody the spirit of Dr. King’s work” [1] in their contributions to the MIT community. Prof. King’s recent efforts have focused on championing federal support for biomedical research as well as criticizing unrestrained defense spending. In part I of this interview, we examine the connections between science, activism, and policy through the lens of Prof. King’s diverse experiences as an academic and activist.

scholarly journals Becoming more transparent: Collecting and presenting data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L Pickett ◽  
Shirley Tilghman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Career Outcomes ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
American Universities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Association Of American Universities

For more than 20 years, panels of experts have recommended that universities collect and publish data on the career outcomes of Ph.D. students. However, little progress has been made. Over the past few years, a handful of universities, including those in the National Institutes of Health’s Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training consortium, and organizations, including the Association of American Universities and the Association of American Medical Colleges, launched projects to collect and publish data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni. Here, we describe the outcome of a meeting, convened by Rescuing Biomedical Research, of universities and associations working to improve the transparency of career outcomes data. We were able to achieve consensus on a set of common methods for alumni data collection and a unified taxonomy to describe the career trajectories of biomedical Ph.D.s. These materials can be used by any institution, with little or no modification, to begin data collection efforts on their Ph.D. alumni. These efforts represent an important step forward in addressing a recommendation that has been made for decades that will improve the ability of trainees to better plan for their careers and for universities to better tailor their training programs.

scholarly journals Becoming more transparent: Collecting and presenting data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L Pickett ◽  
Shirley Tilghman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Career Outcomes ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
American Universities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Association Of American Universities

For more than 20 years, panels of experts have recommended that universities collect and publish data on the career outcomes of Ph.D. students. However, little progress has been made. Over the past few years, a handful of universities, including those in the National Institutes of Health’s Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training consortium, and organizations, including the Association of American Universities and the Association of American Medical Colleges, launched projects to collect and publish data on biomedical Ph.D. alumni. Here, we describe the outcome of a meeting, convened by Rescuing Biomedical Research, of universities and associations working to improve the transparency of career outcomes data. We were able to achieve consensus on a set of common methods for alumni data collection and a unified taxonomy to describe the career trajectories of biomedical Ph.D.s. These materials can be used by any institution, with little or no modification, to begin data collection efforts on their Ph.D. alumni. These efforts represent an important step forward in addressing a recommendation that has been made for decades that will improve the ability of trainees to better plan for their careers and for universities to better tailor their training programs.

Applications of Scanning Microscopy in Biomedical Research

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 354-355
Author(s):  
T. L. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dental Enamel ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Whole Mount ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Content Information ◽  
Sectioned Tissue

Biomedical applications of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) have increased in number quite rapidly over the last several years. Studies have been made of cells, whole mount tissue, sectioned tissue, particles, human chromosomes, microorganisms, dental enamel and skeletal material. Many of the advantages of using this instrument for such investigations come from its ability to produce images that are high in information content. Information about the chemical make-up of the specimen, its electrical properties and its three dimensional architecture all may be represented in such images. Since the biological system is distinctive in its chemistry and often spatially scaled to the resolving power of the SEM, these images are particularly useful in biomedical research.In any form of microscopy there are two parameters that together determine the usefulness of the image. One parameter is the size of the volume being studied or resolving power of the instrument and the other is the amount of information about this volume that is displayed in the image. Both parameters are important in describing the performance of a microscope. The light microscope image, for example, is rich in information content (chemical, spatial, living specimen, etc.) but is very limited in resolving power.

Ultrastructure and analytical microprobe analysis of simian lung mite pigments

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 324-325
Author(s):  
R. W. Cole ◽  
J. C. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Tissue Damage ◽  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Old World Monkeys ◽  
Old World ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lung Mite ◽  
Mite Infestations ◽  
Cardiopulmonary System

In recent years, non-human primates have become indispensable as experimental animals in many fields of biomedical research. Pharmaceutical and related industries alone use about 2000,000 primates a year. Respiratory mite infestations in lungs of old world monkeys are of particular concern because the resulting tissue damage can directly effect experimental results, especially in those studies involving the cardiopulmonary system. There has been increasing documentation of primate parasitology in the past twenty years.

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