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• Policy & Advocacy

  NIH launches comprehensive effort to modernize biosafety framework  

  NIH is launching its Biosafety Modernization Initiative – a comprehensive effort to modernize and strengthen biosafety policies, practices, and oversight to keep pace with the evolving risks posed by today’s rapidly advancing science and technology.

  September 9, 2025
• Policy & Advocacy

  FASEB statement on Executive Order, “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking”

  The E.O. serves as a new mechanism by which the administration is attempting to codify its policies currently facing legal challenges, including withholding grant payments to entire institutions, altering indirect cost rates, and terminating existing grant awards for “no longer effectuating agency priorities,” many of which the courts have already deemed as unlawful.

  August 22, 2025
• Policy & Advocacy

  NASEM releases report on simplifying research regulations and policies

  The report highlights 53 options for streamlining regulatory oversight, covering topics ranging from development of grant proposals and award management and tracking financial conflicts of interest to oversight of research involving human and nonhuman animal subjects.

  September 11, 2025
• Policy & Advocacy

  NIH Issues Plan for “Implementing Gold Standard Science”

  The NIH released its implementation strategy in response to Executive Order on "Restoring Gold Standard Science."

  August 28, 2025