Past News Items

NIH Loan Repayment Program Deadline Approaching
The NIH LRP Deadline is approaching!The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now accepting applications for its five Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) for Fiscal Year 2007, but only until December 1, 2006. (more...)
(12-November-2006)

HESI Workshop on Alternative Assays for Developmental Toxicity
The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Committee of the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) is sponsoring a two-day workshop to foster improvements in alternative models of developmental toxicity. (more...)
(12-November-2006)

2007 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Call for Applications
A key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award supports exceptionally creative scientists who propose highly innovative--and potentially transformative--approaches to major challenges in biomedical research. (more...)
(26-October-2006)

Continuing Education Course Update
A continuing education course, "Fundamentals of Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology," sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Pharmacology, will be offered on August 26 - 27, 2006, in Chicago, Illinois. This course together with another course titled "Toxicology in Drug Development" will precede an international conference, "Frontiers of Pharmacology and Toxicology." (more...)
(2-June-2006)

Teratology Society membership with FASEB continues to be beneficial
(21-May-2006)

Teratology Society Releases Obesity Position Paper
(17-February-2006)

NIH Establishes Multiple PI Awards
(12-February-2006)

FASEB Excellence in Science Award 2007 "Recognizing the Research Accomplishments of Women Scientists"
(12-February-2006)

FASEB Breakthroughs in Science Series: Goals
(31-January-2006)

Draft NIEHS Strategic Plan is now up on the Web. Comments will be accepted until January 24, 2006. You will find links to the Plan and to a feedback form at:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/plan2006/home.htm
(17-January-2006)

FASEB on the Dismal Outlook for NIH and NSF Funding
(11-January-2006)

Funding Announcement: 2006 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program
(29-November-2005)

Shelley Tyl Chosen RTI Senior Fellow
(21-November-2005)

Budget cuts threaten progress of National Children's Study
Twenty-year study is expected to reveal much about kids' health
AAP News Vol. 26 No. 8, p. 14
By: Lori O'Keefe, Correspondent August 2005
(14-September-2005)

The Teratology Society Response to NIEHS' 2006 Strategic Plan
(10-August-2005)

F. Clarke Fraser Award Speech: Suzan L. Carmichael, California Birth Defects Monitoring Program.
(18-July-2005)

Constitution and Bylaws: New Version Approved
(22-November-2004)

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