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At the ASPET Annual Meeting at EB 2013 held in Boston, MA from April 20 – 24, William B. Campbell, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Medical College of Wisconsin, was presented with the 2013 PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence...

Drexel University recently appointed James E. Barrett, Ph.D., founding director of the Clinical and Translational Research Institute. The Clinical and Translational Research Institute is a new University-wide initiative housed in the Drexel University College of Medicine...

FASEB is pleased to announce its release of the latest edition of the 'Breakthroughs in Bioscience' series: “Conquering Cancer with Drugs from Nature’s Medicine Cabinet.”...

Read about the latest research presented at the ASPET Annual Meeting at EB 2013.

NIH released complete fiscal policy information on the agency’s FY 2013 operating plans. As a result of the sequestration, the NIH budget for FY 2013 falls to $29.15 billion, a $1.6 billion or 5.5% reduction from FY 2012. Research Project Grants decline by 6.1%, including reductions of 4.9% for noncompeting awards and 8.6% for competing awards...

Click on the above link to be directed to the Alliance for a Stronger FDA's written Congressional testimony.

A growing number of Members of Congress have expressed their support for increased funding for the NIH for FY 2014. A Senate letter organized by Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) obtained 43 Democrat and nine Republican signatures...

ASPET joined hundreds of other healthcare, education, and other stakeholders in a letter urging Congressional Appropriations leadership to “provide the largest possible Fiscal Year 2014 302(b) allocation to the Labor, HHS Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee.”...

The mission of the ASPET Washington Fellows Program is to enable developing and early career scientists interested in science policy to learn about and become more engaged in public policy issues...Applications are due September 1, 2013...