Kevin M. Wilson

UPDATED: Important new regulations on foreign financial connections

August 6, 2019

Recent media attention has focused on reported espionage by foreign nations in research laboratories in the United States. U.S. intelligence…

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Important NIH regulations on foreign financial connections

June 25, 2019
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Recent science media attention has focused on foreign nations stealing data and research results from research laboratories in the United…

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Good news so far for NIH budget

June 25, 2019
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Recent congressional hearings on the FY20 U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget were a bipartisan lovefest. The support for…

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ASCB president visits NIGMS

June 14, 2019
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ASCB President Andrew Murray traveled to Bethesda, MD, in April to visit the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)…

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ASCB opposes Trump Administration’s halt to fetal tissue research

June 6, 2019

The American Society for Cell Biology, a professional society of more than 8,000 basic biomedical researchers in all 50 states…

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conflict of interest

Federally funded researchers must meet conflict of interest requirements

June 5, 2019

Recent news reports about potential theft of U.S. scientific intellectual property (IP) and scientific results are raising concerns in both…

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Five months and one government shutdown late

May 7, 2019

It was over five months late and resulted in a 35-day government shutdown, but Congress and the president have finally…

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2019 State of the Union

State of the Union, take two

May 3, 2019
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Nothing happens easily or on time these days in Washington, DC. The original date for the 2019 State of the…

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U.S. Science Advisor Finally Confirmed

March 11, 2019
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It took the Trump White House about 18 months to nominate a director of the White House Office of Science…

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NIH takes further steps to address sexual harassment

February 28, 2019

In a  statement released today,  leaders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) acknowledge that recent “…conversations have made it…

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