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Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations

Although the fiscal year ended on September 30, to-date Congress has only completed 5 of the 12 annual appropriations bills. This week, Congress moved forward with a couple of important steps and it looks like they are now on track to complete the remaining 7 bills before the end of the year.

Posted by Catherine Knowles on December 9th, 2009
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Tags: Appropriations, CDC, DoD, NCI, NIH

First Human Embryonic Stem Cells Approved for Use Under the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research

Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the approval of the first 13* human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines for use in NIH-funded research. Children’s Hospital in Boston developed 11 of the approved lines and Rockefeller University in New York City developed two additional lines.

All of the approved lines were obtained from embryos left over by couples seeking treatment for infertility who consented to their use for research under the NIH’s Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research. Continue reading…

Posted by Catherine Knowles on December 2nd, 2009
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Tags: Francis Collins, NIH, stem cells

Dr. Francis Collins Confirmed as NIH Head

collins2 On Friday, August 7, the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Francis Collins, MD, PhD, as the new director of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Collins is both a physician and an expert in genetics. He led the Human Genome Project to an early success in identifying and sequencing the 25,000 genes in the human genome and headed the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from 1993 through 2008. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on August 11th, 2009
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Tags: Francis Collins, NIH

President Obama’s FY 2010 Budget Released

President Barack Obama

President Obama released his FY 2010 budget request. The budget requests $30.838 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a 1.4 percent increase ($443 million) over the FY 2009 level. This includes $5.15 billion for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) or $181 million more than the FY 2009 funding level. Continue reading…

Posted by Joe Arite on May 7th, 2009
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Tags: Budget, NCI, NIH

C3 President Speaks at NIH Meeting on Expansion of ClinicalTrials.Gov

Carlea Bauman

Carlea Bauman, President of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition spoke today. April 20, 2009, at a public meeting called by the National Institutes of Health to hear input on expansion of its clinical trials registry.

In calling for the ClinicalTrials.Gov database to include results of all clinical trials, Bauman said,

C3:Colorectal Cancer Coalition is committed to providing results of clinical trials that affect patients with colon and rectal cancer fairly and honestly, providing both positive and negative conclusions, and helping patients to understand what the results mean to them in language they can understand.

Posted by Kate Murphy on April 20th, 2009
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Tags: ClinicalTrials.Gov, NIH