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Just last month, 150 NIH-funded scientists found their peer-reviewed research facing a new sort of scrutiny. Because of political concerns over their work on HIV/AIDS and sexuality, they are now being asked to provide additional justification for their research. One fears that such political interventionism will have a chilling effect on further work in the field. As members of an academic community, we should condemn the Bush Administration’s actions. Let’s make sure that next Halloween, we get our scares elsewhere...
Harvard researchers won a $10 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant last week, funding a new molecular development program that aims to bridge the gap between disciplines, schools and scientific approaches...
John Schwab, director of the chemical libraries and methodologies program at National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the division of the NIH which awarded the grant, said that the money will also go towards making chemists more involved in each other’s work...
...NIH grant is only the latest in a series of recent efforts undertaken by the University that look to leverage the combined strength of its science programs. It is also similar to other new projects in that it pledges to make its findings widely and publicly available on the internet, extending the model of the Human Genome Project...
Along with Harvard, researchers from the University of Kansas also received NIH chemical library development funds. The two universities join the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University as institutions with NIH funded CMLD centers...