{"id":6699,"date":"2012-09-04T11:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2015-01-07T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:33:33","slug":"nih-director-extols-the-benefits-of-basic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/2012\/09\/04\/nih-director-extols-the-benefits-of-basic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Director Extols the Benefits of Basic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ppb\/files\/2012\/09\/F1.medium1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6704\" title=\"F1.medium\" src=\"\/ppb\/files\/2012\/09\/F1.medium1.gif\" alt=\"F1.medium\" width=\"77\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a Science\u00a0magazine editorial published on August 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins pledged that the agency will \u201ccontinue its strong tradition of supporting basic research.\u201d He cited examples of NIH-funded basic research that led to major advances in the life sciences and pointed out that \u201ctoday\u2019s basic research is the engine that powers tomorrow\u2019s therapeutic discoveries.\u201d In his conclusion, he urged that the community continue to educate the public on the necessity of a broad portfolio of basic research. FASEB President Judith Bond, PhD wrote to Dr. Collins to express appreciation for his public stand on the crucial role of basic research, a theme that he also addressed in his remarks at the FASEB Capitol Hill Centennial Reception in May.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To view the full Science article, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/337\/6094\/503.full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a Science\u00a0magazine editorial published on August 3rd, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins pledged that the agency will \u201ccontinue its strong tradition of supporting basic research.\u201d He cited examples of NIH-funded basic research that led to major advances in the life sciences and pointed out that \u201ctoday\u2019s basic research is the engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10233,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}