Whereas postdoctoral researchers may be funded through ELSI fellowships, Elizabeth Thomson, ELSI research program director at NHGRI, said that there are currently no plans to offer training grants in ELSI topics.
"Small-size occupants, under 5 feet 4, are more at risk of serious injury than the average-size person," said Randa Radwan Samaha, the research program director.
In the United States, just obtaining oil for use in small-scale laboratory research can be extremely difficult, said Scott Pegau, research program director of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute, a research center established in Cordova, Alaska, after the Exxon Valdez spill.
However, more often than not, the faculty members, staff members, training grant directors, and undergraduate research program directors who wish to implement RMT lack the confidence to facilitate training on their own, despite the availability of the curricula and detailed facilitation notes.
"These two programs were envisioned to permit medical students the opportunity to conduct basic research," says William Galey, program director for HHMI's graduate education and medical research training programs.
"These chimpanzees have given up their freedom, if not their natural environment, their bodies, their health, their children to research," said Laura Bonar, program director for Animal Protection of New Mexico, which wants the government to turn the Alamogordo facility into a retirement sanctuary for the chimps.
"When animals lose their jobs, they can become endangered," says Marjie Bender, research and technical program director for the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.
Another section of the legislation creates a translational research program within the NIH director's office aimed at drug development.
Knowing all that, Tyrone Murray, program director for research, development and engineering at Philip Morris U.S.A., has sought to make the burning cigarette less of a fire hazard.
Having Japan move in a similar direction "presents an opportunity for fruitful comparison between the U.S. and Japan in thinking about cultivating cultures for academic integrity and research integrity," Linda Layne, an NSF program director, told the workshop.
The support of our GME leadership, including our department head, program director, and research center, was one of the largest contributing factors to the curriculum's success.
