News & Issues - Presentations Presented by Guests at Annual AMGDB Meetings  

News:

Summer Medical Biochemistry Courses

Laboratory Notebook Guidelines:

What Should Lab Notebooks Contain?
Provided by Brad Thompson, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (Adobe Acrobat file)

Research Ethics:

Responsible Conduct of Research
Sharon S. Krag, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Presented at 2002 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

How to Protect Your Faculty and Department from
Research Misconduct Allegations
Alan Price, Ph.D., Assoc. Director for Investigative Oversight, Office of Research integrity
Presented at 2002 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

National Institutes
of Health:

Improve Your Chances for Funding
John J. McGowan, Director, Extramural Activities, NIH
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

Electronic Grant Submission
John J. McGowan, Project Manager, Electronic Research Administration, NIH
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

Effects of Bioterrorism on NIH Funding
John J. McGowan, Deputy Director of NIAID, NIH
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

National Science Foundation:

Where is NSF Going?  Doubling the NSF Budget
Matthew Kane, Program Director, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, NSF
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

Directorate for Biological Sciences and its Divisions
Matthew Kane, Program Director, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, NSF
Presented at 2003 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

NSF Funding and Dos and Don'ts
Leanne Cusumano, Office of Inspector General, NSF
Presented at 2002 AMGDB Meeting  (PowerPoint file)

American Association for the Advancement of Science:

Post 911

Albert H. Teich, Director, Science & Policy  Programs, AAAS

Presented at 2006 AMGDB Meeting (PowerPoint file)

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology:

The Seven Year Itch:  Human Embryonic Stem Cell Policy

Carrie D. Wolinetz, Ph.D., Associate Director for Communications, FASEB

Presented at 2006 AMGDB Meeting (PowerPoint file)

Medical Biochemistry Education:

Medical Biochemistry: Redefining (or realigning?) the Curriculum: What must they know, when must they know it, and why?  (Part 1)

Michael Lieberman, Ph.D. Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Presented at 2006 AMGDB Meeting (PowerPoint file)

Teaching Biochemistry for Physicians - What Works and Who Should Be Doing It (Part 2)

Allen B. Rawitch, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas

Presented at 2006 AMGDB Meeting (PowerPoint file)

Departmental and Center Structures:

Departments and Centers in an Era of Big Bioscience

William T. Mallon, Ed.D., Association of American Medical Colleges

Presented at the 2007 AMGDB Meeting (PDF file)

Research Funding:

Public Opinion and Presidential Politics: Why They Matter to Biomedical Research in 2007 and Beyond

Mary Woolley
President and CEO, Research!America

Presented at the 2007 AMGDB Meeting (PowerPoint file)

6th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award:

  "Freedom to Discover" Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Research

   Salih Ji. Wakil, Ph.D. L. T. Bolin Professor and Chairman of the Verna and Marrs McLean Department

   of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX