Tag: science policy

  • Nation & World

    New report urges Congress to close its growing tech gap

    Harvard Kennedy School researchers release report urging Congress to close its growing tech-knowledge gap.

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    Congress
  • Science & Tech

    Advice for scientists: ‘Be vocal’

    Carlos Moedas, European Union Science Commissioner, spoke about the importance of science in the “post-truth” era in a visit to the Harvard Kennedy School.

    6–9 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    NIH resumes funding stem cell research – for now

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is resuming funding embryonic stem cell research. “We are pleased with the…interim ruling” yesterday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ” which will allow promising stem cell research to continue while we present further arguments…

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  • Science & Tech

    President Faust issues statement supporting federal funding of stem cell research

    A temporary restraining order last month that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science that already is yielding clues to cures for a number of fatal illnesses and chronic diseases. Harvard has been in the vanguard of such research, and the University,…

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  • Science & Tech

    University adopts faculty financial conflict of interest policies

    The Harvard Corporation has adopted a University-wide faculty financial conflict of interest policy, the first time such a policy has been crafted to cover faculty members across the entire campus. Drafted by a faculty committee chaired by Vice Provost David Korn, it is intended to serve as a framework within which each of the Schools…

    10–15 minutes
  • Health

    Medical School revises conflict of interest policy

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) released a series of revisions to its conflict of interest (COI) policy today that strengthens its commitment to transparency and financial disclosure while recognizing the School’s commitment to industry collaboration. Among many provisions, the new policy includes a streamlined central system for reporting faculty financial interests with industry; requires the public disclosure of certain…

    5–7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Media reporting HSPH professor to be named head of federal Medicare, Medicaid programs

    Major media outlets are this weekend reporting that President Barack Obama has selected Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professor Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP,  to head the federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human Services. The reports have not been confirmed by either the White House…

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  • Health

    Speeding new medicines and technologies to the developing world

    A consortium of Harvard and five other leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have endorsed a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies” in the developing world. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oregon Health & Science University and AUTM have…

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  • Science & Tech

    Stimulus funds provide welcome research boost

    In remarks last month at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., President Barack Obama said not only do we need stimulus money to create thousands of jobs in the sciences and technology, but also to get the progress of the nation’s research back on track. “We can only imagine the new discoveries…

    8–13 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    John P. Holdren named President-elect Obama’s Science Advisor

    President-elect Barack Obama today announced that he has selected Harvard’s John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The post, popularly known as “the President’s science advisor,” also includes directorship of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President…

    10–15 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Presidential election will bring change in federal stem cell policy

    Embryonic stem cell research will likely have a more sympathetic ear in the White House after November’s presidential  election, but a panel of speakers said last night that an era of tight budgets may limit the practical changes researchers see. Warren Wollschlager, founding chair of the Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research and chief of…

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Authors fight misinformation on stem cell science

    California’s Proposition 71, which committed the state to raising $3 billion for stem cell research, was a public policy ‘atom bomb that shifted the embryonic stem cell research debate from ‘whether to ‘how, the author of a book on the issue said Monday (Dec. 11). Michael Bellomo, author of ‘The Stem Cell Divide: The Facts,…

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  • Health

    Stem cell science

    “Stem-cell transplants are already performed every day in Harvard-affiliated hospitals — and around the world,” says Harvard Stem Cell Initiative codirector David Scadden, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. So-called bone-marrow transplants, which transfer tens of thousands of cells of many different…

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  • Science & Tech

    Researchers publish HIV study results despite efforts to block

    Researchers refused to suppress publication of data that indicates an experimental drug did not slow the progression of HIV infection, even though the drug company that sponsored their research tried to block the publication in court. Stephen Lagakos, chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a colleague from…

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