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Comment letters
The ASBMB engages in direct correspondence with members of Congress, federal agencies and various other entities. The society also signs on to letters circulated by various coalitions, scientific societies and other institutions when they represent the ASBMB's interests.
ASBMB letters
- ASBMB response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028
Mar. 13, 2024 - ASBMB response to the Department of Labor modernizing Schedule A Occupations for the Labor Certification in the United States
Feb. 14, 2024 - ASBMB response to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Framework for Equitable and Effective Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education
Jan. 8, 2024 - ASBMB response to the Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct
Jan. 4, 2024 - ASBMB response to proposed ruling by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on modernizing the H-1B Visa Process
Dec. 19, 2023 - ASBMB response to comments and suggestions on updating the NIH Mission Statement
Nov. 22, 2023 - ASBMB response to proposed ruling by the Department of Labor on defining and delimiting the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees
Nov. 7, 2023 - ASBMB response to potential changes to the policies for oversight of dual use research of concern and potential pandemic causing pathogens
Oct. 16, 2023 - ASBMB response to the Federal STEM Education Strategic Plan
July 26, 2023 - ASBMB response to the National Institutes of Health Updated Policy Guidance for Subaward/Consortium Written Agreements
July 5, 2023 - ASBMB response to improving Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award fellowship review
June 21, 2023 - ASBMB response to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine request for input on caregiving study
June 1, 2023 - ASBMB response to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander interagency plans
April 18, 2023 - ASBMB response to the National Institutes of Health's Request for Information on "Re-envisioning U.S. Postdoctoral Research Training and Career Progression within the Biomedical Research Enterprise"
April 14, 2023 - ASBMB response to enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility across NIAID extramural activities
March 30, 2023 - ASBMB appropriations testimony submitted to House and Senate committees
March 22, 2023 - ASBMB response to USCIS's proposed increases to visa petition filing fees
March 6, 2023 - ASBMB response to NIH proposed simplified peer review framework for research project grant applications
March 1, 2023 - ASBMB response to Office of Science and Technology Policy's Request for Information on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative
Jan. 20, 2023 - ASBMB response to the National Cancer Institute's "Request for Information: Soliciting Input on the Use and Reuse of Cancer Metabolomics Data"
Jan. 5, 2023 - ASBMB response to NSPM-33 proposed common disclosure forms
Oct. 31, 2022 - ASBMB response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information on Equitable Data Engagement and Accountability
Oct. 3, 2022 - ASBMB response to the National Institutes of Health's Request for Information on Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women
Sept. 29, 2022 - ASBMB comments on Department of Education Proposed Changes to Title IX
Sept. 12, 2022 - ASBMB response to the National Academies ad hoc committee call for input
Aug. 10, 2022 - ASBMB comments on the Department of Education's Equity Action Plan
Aug. 4, 2022 - ASBMB response to the NIH Development of Prize Competition for Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
July 27, 2022 - ASBMB recommendations to the draft strategic plan for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
July 15, 2022 - ASBMB response to the National Institute for General Medical Sciences "Request for Information: Initiatives That Improve Research Training, Career Progression, or the Educational Environment in the Biomedical Research Enterprise"
May 27, 2022 - ASBMB written testimony for House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations hearing
May 26, 2022 - ASBMB letter requesting report language to enforce harassment policies
May 25, 2022 - ASBMB response to the Center for Scientific Review Advisory Council Meeting
April 11, 2022 - ASBMB response to the framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEAI
April 3, 2022 - ASBMB response to CSR's 2022-2027 Strategic Plan
March 23, 2022 - ASBMB comments to the NIGMS Advisory Council
Feb. 11, 2022 - ASBMB response to draft NIH chief officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity strategic plan for FYs 2022-2026
Feb. 10, 2022 - ASBMB response to proposed Pandemic and Public Health Preparedness bill
Feb. 4, 2022 - ASBMB recommendations to NIH to strengthen fellowship review
Jan. 24, 2022 - ASBMB policy recommendations to OSTP on implementing NSPM-33
Sept. 30, 2021 - ASBMB response to OSTP on improving scientific integrity policies
July 28, 2021 - ASBMB response to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
July 16, 2021 - ASBMB response to the Department of Education's public hearing to gather information for the purpose of improving enforcement of Title IX
June 11, 2021 - ASBMB response to USCIS to identify barriers across immigration services
May 19, 2021 - ASBMB response to DHS proposed rule to change student visas
Oct. 26, 2020 - ASBMB response to NIH RFI on input on the need for an NIH administrative data enclave
May 30, 2019 - ASBMB response to NIH ACD final NGRI recommendations
Feb. 2019 - ASBMB letter thanking the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences Directorate for reversing submission limit policy
Feb. 1, 2019 - ASBMB letter to the Department of Education’s request for comments regarding proposed changes to Title IX
- ASBMB letter in response to preliminary recommendations presented by the NIH ACD Next Generation Researchers Initiative Working Group
Oct. 2018 - ASBMB responds to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences RFI on strategies to increase faculty diversity
- ASBMB responds to the National Science Foundation's harassment policy change
May 4, 2018 - ASBMB letter to the National Institutes of Health providing recommendations for the Next Generation of Researchers Initiative
April 2018 - ASBMB letter to the National Institutes of Health requesting FLSA guidance
Nov. 4, 2016 - ASBMB letter to the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee regarding the High Quality Research Act
May 22, 2013 - ASBMB responds to the National Institutes of Health RFI on Biomedical Workforce Diversity
- ASBMB responds to the National Institutes of Health RFI on Data Management
Jan. 12, 2012 - ASBMB responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on Open Access
- ASBMB responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on Data Access
Jan. 12, 2012 - ASBMB responds to the Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on Building a 21st Century Bioeconomy
- ASBMB responds to the National Institutes of Health RFI on Managing NIH Resources
March 11, 2011
Coalition letters
Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research
- Ad Hoc Group letter urging all members of Congress to support $750 million increase for NIH in FY 2011
Jan. 24, 2011 - Ad Hoc Group letter urging support for $1 billion increase for NIH in FY 2011
Nov. 1, 2010
Coalition for Health Funding
- Health community letter on Function 550, discretionary health funding
March 24, 2011 - Community letter to Congressional leadership on finalization of FY 2011 appropriations bills Oct. 29, 2010
Coalition for National Science Funding
- Community letter opposing the GRANT Act (H.R. 3433)
Feb. 15, 2012 - CNSF statement on FY 2012 NSF budget
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- FASEB urges Congress to remove SBIR/STTR reauthorization amendment
Dec. 9, 2011 - FASEB comments on the 2011 International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals
- FASEB comments on the proposed rule facilitating the participation of government scientists on non-profit boards
- FASEB urges HHS to review regulations, reduce administrative burden
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Coalition
- STEM Ed Coalition letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on recommendations on the Educational Sciences Reform Act
April. 19, 2023 - STEM Ed Coalition letter requesting a science testing requirement be included in the Student Success Act (H.R. 3989)
Feb. 10, 2012
NDD United
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