A Fun Way to Learn More About OSP NOTE: This puzzle uses HTML embedding. If the interactive features... Post Date: April 28th, 2023 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Reflections on Women’s History Month My mother always warned me that as I got older,... Post Date: March 31st, 2023 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Advancing the Promise of Open Science: We Want to Hear from You! Dr. Brennan Dr. Schor Dr. Gregurick Dr. Lauer This blog... Post Date: February 21st, 2023 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Building a Solid Policy Foundation Through Meaningful Engagement If you have visited the OSP website in the last... Post Date: February 3rd, 2023 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
How Bioethical Principles Are the Foundation of Great Research Embedding ethics throughout the research process is essential to the... Post Date: December 19th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Catalyzing Research with Novel Alternative Methods Thomas Edison had a famous saying. No, not the one... Post Date: December 8th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
ICYMI: The Download from the September 21 NSABB Meeting Last week was a busy one for OSP. Just to... Post Date: September 28th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Harnessing the Power of Our Digital Future I don’t think it would be news to anyone reading... Post Date: July 22nd, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Thoughts on the Recent NIH DURC Stakeholder Engagement Meeting On Thursday, NIH held its second stakeholder engagement meeting on... Post Date: July 6th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
DataWorks! Prize – Incentives for building a culture of data sharing and reuse This is a guest blog from Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D.... Post Date: June 6th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Gearing Up for 2023 Part II: Implementing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Sequels are all the rage these days. I figure if... Post Date: May 12th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Reflections on NIH’s April Virtual Meeting on USG Biosecurity Oversight Framework Followers of this blog are probably keenly aware that the... Post Date: May 2nd, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Introducing NIH’s New Scientific Data Sharing Website I am very pleased to announce the availability of a new... Post Date: April 20th, 2022 Author: Dr. Mike Lauer Read More
Gearing Up for 2023: Implementing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Frequent readers of this blog will remember that back in... Post Date: January 25th, 2022 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Refreshing NIH’s Genomic Data Sharing Policy We’ve all heard the ancient expression that “the only constant... Post Date: November 30th, 2021 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
Sharing Our Current Thinking: Models Containing Aspects of Human Embryos Understanding early human development helps scientists study causes of miscarriage... Post Date: March 11th, 2021 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Parenting in a Time of COVID Next week marks the one-year anniversary of NIH shifting to... Post Date: March 8th, 2021 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas ‘Twas the night before Christmas, in a very strange year,OSP... Post Date: December 21st, 2020 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
NExTRAC: Considerations for Gene Drives Research and an Emerging Biotechnology Framework Last year, NIH unveiled the Novel and Exceptional Technology &... Post Date: November 9th, 2020 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
NIH Releases New Policy for Data Management and Sharing Today, nearly twenty years after the publication of the Final... Post Date: October 29th, 2020 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
How We Handle Allegations of Sexual Harassment As we have discussed frequently over the past couple of... Post Date: June 24th, 2020 Author: Dr. Mike Lauer Read More
New Steps to Help Ensure Safe Work Environments for NIH-Supported Research If an institution requests approval to remove a principal investigator... Post Date: June 11th, 2020 Author: Dr. Mike Lauer Read More
Summary of “NIH Workshop on Optimizing Reproducibility in Nonhuman Primate Research Studies by Enhancing Rig... First, I want to take a moment to wish you... Post Date: May 4th, 2020 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
‘Twas the Night Before…… ‘Twas the night before Christmas, And nobody’s here. All of... Post Date: December 23rd, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
NIH’s DRAFT Data Management and Sharing Policy: We Need to Hear From You! Around this time last year, I wrote about a request... Post Date: November 6th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Ethics is Not a Dirty Word When thinking about the intersection of policy and science, the... Post Date: November 4th, 2019 Author: Lyric Jorgenson, PhD Read More
A Quick Word About Human Embryo Model Systems Rapidly emerging areas of science can pose interesting challenges for... Post Date: October 10th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Update on the “NIH Workshop on Optimizing Reproducibility in Nonhuman Primate Research Studies by Enhancing ... I’ve received a lot of emails from folks asking why... Post Date: September 16th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Continuing to Work with the Community on Registration and Results Reporting for Basic Experimental Studies Inv... The research that NIH funds doesn’t always fall neatly into... Post Date: July 24th, 2019 Authors: Dr. Mike Lauer , William Riley Read More
A New NIH Resource on the Lasting Legacy of Henrietta Lacks The amazing and tragic story of Henrietta Lacks became part... Post Date: June 13th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Protocol Template for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Involving Humans: A New Community Resource! A few months ago, back in August 2018, we authored... Post Date: March 28th, 2019 Author: William Riley Read More
GDPR: Crossing the Data Sharing Bridge, One Regulation at a Time Like most of you, my personal email last summer was... Post Date: March 15th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Investing in Bioethics Research to Inform Science Policy I am a big believer in policies based on evidence.... Post Date: January 29th, 2019 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
‘TwasThe Night Before….. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, When policy wonks take, For... Post Date: December 21st, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Protecting Participants, Empowering Researchers: Providing Access to Genomic Summary Results This blog was co-authored by Dr. Eric Green, Director of... Post Date: November 1st, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
A Data Sharing Renaissance: Music to My Ears! When world famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, visited the NIH campus,... Post Date: October 10th, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Behavioral and Social Clinical Trials Template: A New Resource! In May 2017, NIH and FDA released the final version... Post Date: August 27th, 2018 Author: William Riley Read More
Recommendations for Moving to a Process for Returning Research Results I have become the human subjects police. No, I’m not... Post Date: July 11th, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Insider’s Guide to Effective Commenting on NIH Policies Before I came to NIH, I spent my career working... Post Date: June 8th, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
A Match Made in Science Policy Heaven Everyone knows someone who has dived fearlessly into the world... Post Date: March 23rd, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
A Seat at the Table: Behind the Scenes of the NIH-FDA-CMS Leadership Councils One of the questions (or more accurately, lamentations) that I... Post Date: March 12th, 2018 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Seasons Greetings from OSP! ‘Twas the middle of Hanukkah, and across OSP, We’re thinking... Post Date: December 15th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Accessing Genomic Summary Results: We Want to Hear From You! Enabling the secondary use of research data to advance scientific... Post Date: September 20th, 2017 Author: Dr. Mike Lauer Read More
National Biosafety Month: The New Fall Classic What do you think of when you think of fall?... Post Date: September 13th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Deep Dish on Institutional DURC Policy: Calling All Stakeholders! If my time in the U.S. government has taught me... Post Date: August 18th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Back to the Future: Asilomar and the Upcoming NIH Guidelines workshop The old expression, “the more things change, the more they... Post Date: July 5th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Extreme Website Makeover: The OSP Edition! Yesterday afternoon, OSP launched its brand new website! We are... Post Date: June 16th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
A Fresh Look at the Rules for Returning Research Results As the biomedical research enterprise increasingly moves to a more... Post Date: June 7th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
In Perfect Harmony: The NIH – FDA Clinical Trials Protocol Template One of the most frequent exasperated questions I face when... Post Date: May 2nd, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
De-clunking the dbGaP Data Submission and Access Process – We’re All Ears! Data. It is the essential output of biomedical research that... Post Date: February 21st, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Revised Common Rule: A Tribute to the Past and a Promise for the Future As humans living longer, healthier lives than at any point... Post Date: January 18th, 2017 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
‘Twas the Night Before Hanukkah (and Christmas) at NIH ‘Twas the night before Hanukkah and at OSP, We were... Post Date: December 22nd, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The What and How of Data Sharing In a recent BMJ article, Milton Packer highlights the value... Post Date: November 14th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Institutional DURC Policy – One Year Later: An Invitation for Stakeholder Input Maximizing the benefits of life sciences research while minimizing the... Post Date: November 3rd, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Improving Visibility of NIH-Supported Clinical Trial Activities and Results Information In a separate post today, we provide an overview of... Post Date: September 16th, 2016 Authors: Dr. Mike Lauer , Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Building Better Clinical Trials through Enhanced Stewardship and Transparency NIH is the largest public funder of clinical trials in... Post Date: September 16th, 2016 Authors: Dr. Mike Lauer , Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Next Steps on Research Using Animal Embryos Containing Human Cells Biomedical researchers have created and used animal models containing human... Post Date: August 4th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Accelerating Clinical Research by Streamlining Multi-Site Review of Human Subjects Research Research involving human participants is key to improving public health... Post Date: June 21st, 2016 Authors: Dr. Mike Lauer , Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Emerging Biotechnologies and the Role of the NIH RAC Next week, we mark the 40th anniversary of the first... Post Date: June 16th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Capturing Impact: A Method for Measuring Progress NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature... Post Date: June 1st, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Ensuring Continued Responsible Research with Non-Human Primates Research with animals, including non-human primates, has enabled the development... Post Date: May 24th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Protecting Data, Promoting Access: Improving Our Toolbox You may recall from one of my previous blogs that... Post Date: May 2nd, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Building a Better Biomarker Glossary Precise and clear communication across biological and clinical research disciplines... Post Date: April 18th, 2016 Authors: Dr. Mike Lauer , Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
NIH-FDA Draft Clinical Trial Protocol Template: Stakeholder Feedback Needed! In the recently released NIH-Wide Strategic Plan (FY 2016-2020), the... Post Date: March 18th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Come Together…Right Now…Over Research: Collaborating with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute In one of my first blog posts, I mentioned that... Post Date: February 5th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
NSABB to Meet on Gain-of-Function Studies to Talk Risks, Benefits, Ethics, and Policy In September 2015, I wrote about the U.S. government’s deliberative... Post Date: January 5th, 2016 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas at NIH ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and at NIH, There were... Post Date: December 24th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
OSP Takes on Technology Transfer The Office of Science Policy (OSP) has added technology transfer... Post Date: December 22nd, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Clarifying NIH’s Priorities in Health Economics Today, NIH is releasing a Guide Notice on Clarifying NIH’s... Post Date: November 25th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Biosafety at NIH and Beyond….A Shared Responsibility Co-Authored by Carrie Wolinetz and Deborah Wilson Following this week’s release of... Post Date: November 3rd, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Talkin’ About an Evolution (of research oversight, that is!) To many scientists, the name Asilomar is synonymous with an... Post Date: October 16th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
The Gain-of-Function Deliberative Process In biomedical research, scientists commonly perform experiments that involve enhancing... Post Date: September 25th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Staying Ahead of the Curve on Chimeras One of the truisms of science policy is that developments... Post Date: September 23rd, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Genomic Data Sharing: Part II – Playing by the Rules The discussions surrounding the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) have highlighted... Post Date: September 8th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Genomic Data Sharing: A Two-Part Series NIH is committed to both the responsible stewardship of participants’... Post Date: August 17th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Let’s Talk About DURC: A Workshop Invitation It is almost universally acknowledged that life science research is... Post Date: July 9th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
In the OSP Kitchen – Single IRB for Multisite Research Policy We’re all familiar with the analogy that policy development is... Post Date: June 30th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Burden of Disease and NIH Funding Priorities Co-Authored by Carrie Wolinetz and Sally Rockey Recently, many voices have asked... Post Date: June 18th, 2015 Authors: Sally Rockey , Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More
Everything You Wanted to Know About OSP (But were afraid to ask…) The NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP) is part of... Post Date: June 15th, 2015 Author: Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD Read More