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COMPETES authorizes scientific education efforts, manufacturing research, and, crucially, spending for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy (including its ARPA-E high risk research program), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The good news is that the changes suggest reducing the oversight requirements for studies that pose no or minimal risk, in order to allow ethics review committees to concentrate their efforts on high risk research that deserves careful attention.
And while we have focused on PCSTs, a similar model may be applicable to other relevantly similar high risk research.
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"Every organization says, 'Oh, we want to fund high-risk research.' And I think they mean it.
President Eisenhower established DARPA in 1958, to undertake high-risk research in an attempt to find solutions to real problems.
Amazingly, the only person to die in this very high-risk research was Jesse Lazear, a white medical school graduate and a member of the board.
"Their peer review process is not promoting innovative, high-risk research," said Jan M. van Deursen, who with Dr. James L. Kirkland leads the Mayo Clinic team.
The program finances high-risk research when the private sector is unlikely to find it profitable and makes decisions based on peer review.
But, she added: "We also find that Republicans, though not exclusively, will support the type of business environment that is necessary to fund the very high-risk research that requires huge amounts of investment".
Government could also retain a golden share of the intellectual property rights (patents) which public research produces, and/or make sure that the prices of the new drugs reflect how the taxpayer paid for the most high-risk research.
"The worst thing we could do would be to just hunker down and hold off tackling very important problems," Dr. Collins said, adding, "Obviously, this is high-risk research, but goodness, the stakes are so high that we felt we had to go forward even in the face of the most difficult budget environment that anyone can remember in the N.I.H".
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