The online survey was publicised throughout Australia, via the lead institute's professional and digital networks, including social media, a press release and promotion via several radio stations.
In its 2008 statement of purpose (NIH 2008), the NIH Nanotechnology Task Force appointed the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) as the lead institute for coordinating within the NIH and with other agencies to address the health and safety issues of nanotechnology.
As the NIH's designated lead institute for implementation of the NNI EHS strategy, the NIEHS developed the ONE Nano program to provide a strategic framework for coordinating investments in nanotechnology health and safety research within the institute and between the institute and other federal partners.
Professors at Italian universities who are appointed to lead research institutes usually continue to receive their academic salary in addition to their new wage, he wrote; but his ETH salary was reduced by 80% when he took the helm at INGV.
Instead of moving on from the Kennedy Center in 2011, as he had once planned, he now says he will stay until 2014 and will then lead the institute.
Colonel Blitch, who was planning to move to Colorado to lead the institute's new Center for Robot-Assisted stillhadnd Rescue, sthel had the robots stored in the basement of his house in Washington.
The nation's lead research institute devoted to child development and reproductive health has a new director.
Since then, regular progress has been made in lowering workplace lead exposures, instituting new workplace controls, and implementing health examinations of exposed workers.
But the need for each NIH institute to spend its annual AIDS allocation has led some institutes to stretch the definition of HIV research and others to relax quality standards.
Leading research institutes such as EMBL and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology IMPP) in Vienna, which are based largely on group leaders, seem to be exceptional because equipment and core facilities are available from the beginning, ensuring a smooth start.
Francesco Mulargia, a seismologist at the University of Bologna who sits on INGV's scientific council, says Doglioni is "a well-known geologist," but he questions whether the new boss has the expertise to lead an institute that concentrates on two related but more quantitative fields geophysics and volcanology.
