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The Milken Institute today released a report ranking more than 200 U.S. universities for their ability to turn their research into products and startup companies. Seventeen AAU universities were ranked in the top 20 schools.
Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | ReportsThe Grant Reform and New Transparency (GRANT) Act aims to provide greater transparency to federal grant programs as a means of increasing accountability. The bill requires the creation of new government-wide public website on which information on all federal grants would be posted. Under current…
Research Administration & Regulation | Higher Education Regulation | Fact SheetsRe: Privacy, Transparency, and Accountability Issues Associated with Commercial and Private Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Innovation and Competitiveness | Research Administration & Regulation | MemoThe undersigned scientific and professional societies, higher education associations, universities, and research institutions are writing to express their opposition to a provision in the Commercializing on Small Business Innovation Act of 2016 (HR 4783) which would increase the SBIR set-aside from…
Technology Transfer | Innovation and Competitiveness | National Institutes of Health | LettersFour Associations, including Association of American Universities, wrote in support of the proposal to delay the general compliance date of the revised common rule.
Research Administration & Regulation | Human Subjects Protection | LettersAAU President Mary Sue Coleman wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency urging it to extend the public comment period on the proposed rule, Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science from 30 days to 60 days
Research Administration & Regulation | LettersAAU and APLU submitted a comment letter on the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing, emphasizing investment in research and development and manufacturing innovation institutes, and the support of education and training programs.
Research Administration & Regulation | Innovation and Competitiveness | LettersAAU thanks Representative Stivers (R-OH) and Bill Foster (D-IL) for introducing the STRONGER Patents Act, bipartisan legislation that would effectively crack down on abuses of the U.S. patent system while taking steps to improve that system.
Patents | Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | Press ReleasesAAMC, AAU, and APLU express deep concerns with the restrictions announced by HHS restricting the use of fetal tissue.
Research Administration & Regulation | National Institutes of Health | Press ReleasesAAU, along with 91 other higher education organizations and institutions, yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to express collective concern over the department’s policy imposing substantial barriers to and limiting the use of research using fetal tissue cells
National Institutes of Health | Research Administration & Regulation | Letters