Kevin M. Wilson

ASCB asks Biden to extend visa protection to Ukrainian scientists

March 8, 2022

With all the heartbreaking news about the invasion of Ukraine, the only glimmer of good news is the warm welcome…

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Biden Adminstration Makes Important Changes to Visas

March 1, 2022
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At its December meeting, the ASCB Council met with staff from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…

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Back to the Moon

March 1, 2022
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In early February President Biden relaunched the Cancer Moonshot program he first launched in 2016 as vice president. The goal…

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The 2021 Public Service Award Goes to Ginther, Kington for Highlighting Racial Disparities in NIH Funding

December 15, 2021
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ASCB is pleased to announce that Donna Ginther and Raynard Kington have been selected by the Society’s Public Policy Committee…

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ASCB Weighs-in on DARPA-like Agency at NIH

December 15, 2021
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It’s been seven months since it was first proposed in President Biden’s State of the Union address yet significant unknowns1…

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Kington, Ginther to receive Public Service Award for reports on racial inequities in federal funding

November 2, 2021

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is pleased to announce that Donna Ginther and Raynard Kington have been selected…

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White House Outlines R&D Objectives

October 25, 2021
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Each year, just as Congress begins to start its work on the federal budget for the next year, the White…

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NIGMS Changes Policy on Support of Well-Funded Investigators

October 22, 2021
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Since 1998, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has had a policy to address how it would provide…

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COVID and Grant Applications: ASCB Asks NIH for Clarification

October 21, 2021
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When the Public Policy Committee reviewed the results of its survey about member productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of…

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A clown car or a minivan?

August 26, 2021
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The chance that metaphoric celestial bodies would align to allow for the development of new federal science policy1 has actually…

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