Related to Performance Plants Secures $4.3M to Develop Technology to Improve Biofuel Production

• Advancing Stem Cell Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis
  UKSCF partners with MS Society to financially support clinical development.
  
• Synthetic Biology—The Devil Is in the Financial Details
  Oil companies’ significant investments have made biofuels the mainstay of R&D.
  
• 2011 Budget Outlook: Trim, Cut, Then Slash
  Agencies like the FDA and NIH are looking at potentially huge cuts.
  
• Study Finds a Friend at NIH but Will Congress Share the Love?
  Paper in NEJM tries to make case for boosting federal research funding amid House leaders’ pursuit of spending cuts.
  
• NIH Updates Its Strategy to Combat Obesity
  Research spending has been on the upswing, but so has the obesity epidemic.
  
• Academic Organizations Try to Step Up Their R&D Game
  Sector has work cut out for it as ARRA has dried up and gov’t as well as industry cut budgets.
  
• Revival of Tax Credit Program Depends on Job Creation and Scientific Results
  Members of Congress are trying to expand the Qualified Therapeutic Discovery Program through 2017.
  
• Prospect of Court Appeals and Congressional Bill Hold the Cards for hESC Research
  Case seeks to prevent the use of federal dollars, while Washington’s conservative bent is cause for concern.
  
• NIH Taps 25 Schools to Receive Top Dollars
  Did your alma mater make the list?
  
• SBIR Thinks Smaller
  New rules taking effect on January 28 aim to draw investor-owned smaller biopharmas to the federal grant program and STTR, its companion.
  
• Funding Squeeze Traps Young Researchers
  Postdocs look beyond NIH funding as, despite policy changes, the percentage and age of first-time grant winners stay steady.
  
• 20 Grants for Young Researchers
  Looking for funding? Here are some places to start.
  
• GEN Hall of Shame
  Meet the Congressional enemies of research funding.