Ethicists bemoan shortened clinical trial approval time

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Officials at Health Canada propose shortening the review of research grant applications from 60 days to 30 days and even to 48 hours. However, some research ethics boards that would review the applications are for-profit institutions. This leads critics to wonder if grant approvals can be bought.

Canada

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Record gift adds another US neuroscience center

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Publisher Patrick McGovern has endowed $350 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. The center will be the research home for 16 scientists and a staff of 300 to 400.

Research, Donations, Neurology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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NIH proceeds with overhaul of grant system

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Some AIDS researchers fear that changes in how the NIH reviews grant applications could have a negative impact on AIDS research. The agency proposes grouping study sections by scientific discipline rather than by disease.

Innovations, Science and technology policy, United States. National Institutes of Health

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