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NIH seeks to recognize academic institutions for institutional approaches that have clearly succeeded in addressing faculty gender diversity and equity issues. Description Though the proportions of women and men are similar at the graduate level for biomedical sciences and in medical schools, women are underrepresented at the faculty level in both science and medicine, particularly…

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is pleased to respond to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Solicitation of Input from Stakeholders on Agricultural Innovations. BIO applauds USDA for taking a proactive approach and seeking information about facilitating the transformative breakthroughs for agriculture to meet the challenges of the 21st Century and increase agricultural production by…

A temporary hospital is being reopened at the Georgia World Congress Center as coronavirus-related hospitalizations reach new records across the state. Financial impacts on health care facilities from this surge of patients is expected to be “significant” as people continue to become sick and need to be hospitalized, according to a Grady Health System official.…

In 2018, eight universities signed an agreement that opened up mutual access to technology. Called the Georgia Core Facilities Partnership, the program enables university scientists to use a vast array of high-tech instruments housed in nearly 100 campus facilities across the state. Five public institutions and four private universities now participate in the partnership. See who…

Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute said Thursday it’s received a gift of $7.8 million from the Paula and Rodger Riney Foundation to fund multiple myeloma research. The two-year project will support fast-tracked research projects at Winship in multiple myeloma, a blood cancer caused by malignant plasma cells that accumulate in the bone marrow. Rodger Riney founded Scottrade Financial…

At today’s White House Roundtable, plasma industry leader and CSL CEO Paul Perreault urged people who have recovered from COVID-19 to consider donating plasma toward the development of a potential hyperimmune globulin to treat people with serious complications from COVID-19. Representing the plasma industry, Perreault pointed to the unprecedented CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance industry collaboration which was co-founded by CSL Behring…