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ViewFrancis Collins to step down from leading NIH at end of year

Long-term director of National Institutes of Health says time has come for fresh leadership

ViewUS news roundup: 24-30 September

This week: campus-harassment legislation, International Space Station retirement, and agency makes diversity pledge

ViewEU and US agree deeper cooperation on tech issues

Deal comes after frosty relations threatened to postpone first meeting of high-level council

ViewUS presidential science advisory council ‘most diverse in history’

Joe Biden brings back Obama-era figures as science advisers, including astronauts and Nobel prizewinners

ViewThe brilliance and absurdity of science in Seinfeld

Awaiting the Netflix release, Mico Tatalovic examines science’s place in the sitcom’s humour

ViewEU-US relationship frosty ahead of planned tech and trade meeting

Commissioner says relations are “broken” as submarine deal sours cooperation on activities including R&D

ViewUS news roundup: 17-23 September

This week: conflict of interest allegations, quantum funding and Howard Hughes gets a new leader

ViewSenate confirms Biden’s choice of undersecretary for universities

Activist attorney and Obama administration veteran James Kvaal’s previous work on student equity praised

ViewLatest US R&D funding data ‘underscore need to rebalance’

US health department was responsible for over half of 2019 government funding of academic R&D

ViewCambridge life sciences to get £850m boost from US firm

US investment company Blackstone to acquire Cambridge International Technology Park and plot at Granta Park

ViewAnimal rights activists sue NIH, alleging it censored comments

Columbia University institute is part of legal team for plaintiffs

ViewUS news roundup: 10-16 September

This week: drug prices, NSF partnerships and money for genome research

View$45bn for R&D divvied up in controversial US spending plan

Government agencies allocated billions to upgrade research facilities under Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion infrastructure package

ViewCharles Rotimi to steer US genetics institute

Nigerian becomes first Africa-born scientist to take NIH scientific director post

ViewUS news roundup: 3-9 September

This week: the science workforce, spreading federal funds and scrutiny of foreign NIH applicants

ViewWhite House pandemic plan demands efforts akin to moonshot

Broad-spectrum jabs among goals of Apollo-scale plan

ViewBiden brings Historically Black Colleges closer to White House

Presidential order aims to help minority-serving institutions access government funding programmes

ViewUS news roundup: 27 August to 2 September

This week: a $3.5 trillion spending package, the Afghanistan evacuation and campus vaccinations

ViewUS intelligence agencies split on Covid origins, to Republican ire

Agencies agree pandemic virus is not a weapon, but diverge on whether it was engineered

ViewWhite House wants R&D to focus on pandemics and climate

Biden administration lays out spending priorities for 2022-23, with R&D investment expected to rise

ViewWomen ‘more likely to feel short-changed on authorship’

Despite broaching authorship early, women experience more problems than men when writing research papers

ViewUS news roundup: 20-26 August

This week: Congress quizzes EPA, disabled students get loan forgiveness, and lawsuit delays lunar lander

ViewFusion energy milestone prompts call for US research funding boost

Department of Energy has planned budget cuts for programme behind “historic” result

ViewMost US research managers would move for a flexible job

Survey finds majority of administrators are working remotely and consider it a positive change

ViewBiotech takeover probed for potentially breaking EU rules

US genomics giant Illumina acquired cancer detection company while $8 billion deal was under review

ViewGlobal calls to protect Afghan academics from Taliban

Taliban claims women will be able to continue their education met with scepticism

ViewUS news roundup: 13-19 August

This week: FDA independence, research security and supporting staff in higher education

ViewRushed chemical checks risking US public health, group claims

Environment agency denies ‘ban’ on its scientists comparing notes while assessing potentially hazardous chemicals

ViewSmaller US universities financially vulnerable after Covid

Survey also reveals widespread focus on campus diversity issues in wake of George Floyd murder

ViewUS news roundup: 6-12 August

This week: Senate spending bills, education R&D, climate report reaction and research integrity grants