Kevin M. Wilson

ASCB Weighs-in on DARPA-like Agency at NIH

December 15, 2021
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It’s been seven months since it was first proposed in President Biden’s State of the Union address yet significant unknowns1…

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Kington, Ginther to receive Public Service Award for reports on racial inequities in federal funding

November 2, 2021

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is pleased to announce that Donna Ginther and Raynard Kington have been selected…

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White House Outlines R&D Objectives

October 25, 2021
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Each year, just as Congress begins to start its work on the federal budget for the next year, the White…

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NIGMS Changes Policy on Support of Well-Funded Investigators

October 22, 2021
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Since 1998, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has had a policy to address how it would provide…

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COVID and Grant Applications: ASCB Asks NIH for Clarification

October 21, 2021
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When the Public Policy Committee reviewed the results of its survey about member productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of…

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A clown car or a minivan?

August 26, 2021
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The chance that metaphoric celestial bodies would align to allow for the development of new federal science policy1 has actually…

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The knowns and unknowns of ARPA-H

August 13, 2021
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The late Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Secretary of Defense twice as well as White House Chief of Staff, beginning…

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Are the policy planets in line again?

July 10, 2021

Every so often, the planets in the U.S. policy universe line up to allow big steps forward in U.S. science…

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Advocacy in a world of Zoom

June 14, 2021
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As we pass the first anniversary of work life in a pandemic, we have all tried to get used to…

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Stalled Lander nomination moves forward

June 11, 2021
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As one of its last actions before leaving Washington, DC, on May 28, 2021, for a week at home with…

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