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• Francis Collins named as NIH chief

  Obama nominates prominent geneticist as agency director.

  09 July 2009

• Researcher payment reporting under scrutiny

  Debate over NIH conflict-of-interest rules divides scientists.

  08 July 2009

• US stem-cell research expands

  Biomedical agency announces new funding policy for cell lines.

  07 July 2009

• Grant applications swamp agency - Premium content

  Peer-review system for National Institutes of Health grants is stretched to its limits.

  09 June 2009

• Draft stem-cell guidelines criticized - Premium content

  Researchers complain that previously approved cell lines would not be covered.

  26 May 2009

• Still strict on stem cells - Premium content

  Even some Bush-approved cell lines could be denied federal funding.

  22 April 2009

• NIH announces draft stem-cell guidelines - Premium content

  US agency outlines framework for funding human embryonic stem-cell work.

  17 April 2009

• Open-access policy flourishes at NIH - Premium content

  Researchers, institutions and publishers have complied with the mandate, but it still has its opponents.

  07 April 2009

• Congress probes NIH stimulus funds - Premium content

  Scrutiny also aimed at National Children's Study

  01 April 2009

• Bills target biosimilar drugs - Premium content

  House of Representatives divided over regulating generics.

  25 March 2009

• Research funding: Closing arguments - Premium content

  The battle to keep a lab funded can be long and painful. Meredith Wadman meets two researchers who may be close to hanging up their coats.

  04 February 2009

• Stem cells: Stuck in New Jersey - Premium content

  Scientists and politicians in New Jersey thought that they had a chance to make their state a stem-cell player. Voters thought otherwise. As proponents prepare for a second attempt, Meredith Wadman investigates what went wrong in the Garden State.

  06 February 2008