Researchers' petition aims to simplify European funding

CIHR to simplify open-funding programs.

Time to reform European science funding.

L aments about a " brain drain " of Europe's young scientists to the USA abounded at the recent Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2004 in Lisbon. By some reports, a third or more of the young scientists who pursue postdoc-toral training in the United States remain in North America, where they find it relatively easy to secure jobs and funding in a scientific market span...

Latest HapMap update aims to direct researchers to genetic basis of disease.

When scientists decoded the human genome, they produced the genetic blueprint for an abstract, generic individual who doesn't really exist. Compiled from a few anonymous samples, the DNA sequence derived by the Human Genome Project represented a typical human but offered few insights into the genetic variation that drives individual features, such as physical appearance and disease susceptibili...

Reduced funding and sequestration impact young biomedical researchers.

Constraints on funding for research are currently a major topic of conversation among young and established investigators alike. With this in mind, the first article in Young Investigator Perspectives series of editorials provides a thoughtful student perspective on the impact of the current funding situation on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. I thank Alexis Carulli for her excelle...

National plan for Alzheimer's disease aims to jump-start drug development: federal funding levels remain uncertain.

acetylcholine boosters, which basically treat the symptoms, not the cause. Some newer potential treatments in late-state trials have flopped, such as Eli Lilly’s semagacestat, a gamma-secretase inhibitor of the final step in amyloid-beta protein synthesis. Phase 3 trials, which included more than 3,000 patients, were halted after results suggested worsening of cognitive decline and the developm...