Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Collins 'a Guy in a Hurry' for Translational Research

Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, is eager to establish the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, despite the extra budgetary considerations, so that the agency can plug certain therapeutic development holes left open by pharma, such as for rare and neglected diseases. S. Pelech cautions that this proposal will most likely further exacerbate an already very difficult funding situation for basic researchers in the U.S. based on past experience of Canadian academic researchers with the creation of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Read More...