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During visit to the Institute, the Minister said that the Ministry would continue supporting the NIH as new initiatives undertaken by the institute are of critical importance in supporting the provinces.

NIH Executive Director Brig Aamer Ikram said the land belongs to NIH and that Federal Hospital, which is housed inside NIH, cannot start construction work without first getting a no-objection certificate.

The memorandum of understanding signed by CIRM President Alan Trounson and Michael Gottesman, deputy director for intramural research at NIH, is a pilot project of these partnerships in clinical and translational research.

The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, (1) launched in 2004, is a series of initiatives designed to address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex problems.

This summer, the NIH broke into print with NIH MedlinePlus Magazine, a quarterly that offers authoritative advice on health, news on medical research, and stories about people who are making medical advances.

Perhaps the most significant is that NIEHS applications have had less favorable review outcomes than applications assigned to most of the other NIH institutes and centers, in terms of both a larger percentage being "streamlined" (or identified as having less potential for success and therefore afforded a less intensive review process) and a smaller percentage ranking among the highest-scoring 20% of all applications.

"We have worked hard with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Government Ethics to try to come up with rules that first and foremost protect the integrity of NIH science and are balanced in terms of our ability to continue to attract and retain the best scientists and staff," Dr.

"Even my secretary is going to have to sell her stock," said Ezekiel Emanuel, chairman of the agency's department of clinical bioethics, at a February, NIH meeting.

Beginning in 2003, news stories charged that hundreds of National Institutes of Health scientists were engaged in ethically dubious practices, including consulting for or holding stock in companies whose products might benefit from NIH support.

A controversy over conflicts of interest in the intramural research program at the National Institute of Health erupted in December 2003 when the Los Angeles Times published several articles on consulting arrangements between administrators and senior scientists at the NIH and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.