NIH panel urges technology transfer reforms

Five suggestions for substantial NIH reforms

The National Institutes of Health needs to make radical changes to ensure that biomedical research continues to thrive in the United States.

Professional development. NIH report urges greater emphasis on training for all graduate students.

It’s a familiar complaint: Academic researchers intent on cranking out another paper and obtaining their next grant sometimes see their students as little more than another pair of hands rather than as scientists in training. Now comes a new report that attempts to redefi ne the goals of graduate and postdoctoral training and prods biomedical scientists to become better mentors. Similar exhorta...

Report of the Nih Expert Panel on Food Allergy Research

The Food Allergen and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-282) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to convene an ad hoc panel of experts in allergy and immunology to review current basic and clinical research efforts related to food allergies, and requires that the panel make recommendations to ...

Tax Reforms and Evidence of Transfer Pricing

The manipulation of transfer prices changes the relative tax burdens multinational firms face in their different countries of operation and may even reduce a firm’s worldwide tax payments. At the same time, transfer price manipulation will often trigger changes in the tariffs that are levied on intra-company imports. For this reason, when tax rates change, as they did for many countries during ...

Panel 14: Adjusting to Europe: the Politics of Structural Reforms