Society Urges FDA to Weigh Evidence on Avandia Appropriately On Wednesday, July 14, Endocrine Society Past-President Robert Vigersky, MD, testified before advisory committees of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)...
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Society Leadership Talks Peer Review with CSR Director Toni Scarpa On Thursday, July 15, leaders of The Endocrine Society met with Antonio Scarpa, MD PhD, director of the Center of Scientific Review (CSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to discuss a number of issues regarding the peer review process...
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Congressional Subcommittees to Consider NIH Funding; Society Encourages Members to Contact Congress On Thursday, July 15, the House Labor/Health & Human Services/Education (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee took up the appropriations bill that will determine funding for the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2011...
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OHRP Makes Resources Available on YouTube The Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) has announced the availability of educational videos on the Health and Human Services (HHS) YouTube channel The available videos are...
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Harold Varmus Sworn in as NCI Director On Tuesday, July 13, Nobel Prize winner and former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Harold E. Varmus, M.D., became the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) 14th director. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
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NIH Awards Nine New CTSAs The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has awarded new Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) to nine institutions, bringing the total number of CTSA institutions to 55...
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