The Accelerating Medicines Partnership between the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and private-sector partners has launched a big data portal for the sharing and analysis of research on Alzheimer’s
MoreThe National Institutes of Health will invest about $656 million in a biomedical big data research initiative through 2020 to develop software and support a training program for data discovery. Program grantees will work to identify novel analytics to
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NASA has presented some of the medical research conducted aboard the International Space Station through a partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and in collaboration with the National Institutes
MoreDoctors have raised concerns that medical research efforts may slow because of a budget crisis facing the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday. Emma Green writes sequestration has slashed close to $1.55 billion
MoreThe National Institutes of Health would have to cut $1.6 billion from its budget for fiscal year 2013 under the automatic sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Friday, USA Today reports. Dan
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Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told an audience of National Institutes of Health workers Friday in Bethesda, Md. that their agency could see 100,000 lost jobs from the agency and businesses that work
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The National Institutes of Health would have to cut 6.4 percent from its budget if the sequestration mechanism triggers March 1, the agency’s director told Politico. Francis Collins, head of NIH since
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The National Institutes of Health is searching for a new associate director to lead the agency’s biomedical research data initiatives such as genomics, imaging, and electronic health records. NIH said Eric Green,
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Fiscal year 2013 funding for federal science programs will go down 8.2 percent if cuts under sequestration take effect starting in January, Science magazine reports. These figures are part of a report
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The National Institutes of Health has appointed Mary Armstead associate director of the agency’s office of acquisition and management, effective Oct. 1, Federal News Radio reports. Tom Temin writes she will report
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