Related to Gene Therapy Society Looking to NIH to Revisit Role of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee

• Francis Collins Confirmed as New NIH Director
  
• NIH Grants $2.87M for Development of Treatment for C. difficile and Shigella Gastrointestinal Infections
  
• Einstein Obtains $3.5M to Study Epigenomics of Abnormal Fetal Growth and Chronic Kidney Disease
  
• Case Western Receives $4.9M NIH Award to Investigate Inbred Genetic Susceptibility to Colon Cancer Metastasis
  
• CDC and NIH Commission SeraCare to Support HIV Research and Testing for $10.8M
  
• Kaiser Permanente and UCSF Win $25M NIH Grant to Develop Resource for Epidemiology Research
  
• Johns Hopkins Gets $3.7M Two-Year Grant from NIH to Study ALS
  
• Trevena Awarded $7.65M NIH Grant to Search for Selective GPCR Ligands
  
• First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved under New NIH Guidelines
  
• Researchers Awarded $2.4M to Study Neuronal Regeneration
  
• Scientists Use Lentiviral Transduction to Prevent Emphysema Progression in Mice
  
• University of Florida Receives $15M, and Berkeley Lab Obtains $12.8M in ARRA Funding
  
• NIH and FDA Join Forces to Advance Translational Medicine and Regulatory Science
  
• Ark Pulls MAA Covering Gene-Based Therapy for Brain Cancer
  
• Takara Bio Taps University of Pennsylvania to Help Advance HIV Gene Therapy into U.S. Clinical Investigations
  
• NIH to Use Biobase Databases and Analysis Systems for Five More Years
  
• NIH and Wellcome Trust Pledge $38M for Population-Based Genetic Studies in Africa
  
• NIH to Fund 10 Malaria Research Centers with $14M in the First Year
  
• NIH Prolongs Compound-Management Arrangement with Galapagos Until End of 2012
  
• Titan Wins up to $500K in SBIR Grants to Evaluate Six-Month Implant Therapy for Parkinson Disease