Data from study funded by Michael J. Fox Foundation now available to researchers worldwide

NIH Science Education Partnership Awards. NCRR's Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) are designed to improve life science literacy throughout the nation. These grants bring together biomedical and behavioral researchers, educators, community groups, and other interested organizations in partnerships to create and disseminate programs that give K-12 students and teachers and the general public a better understanding of life sciences.

An expert panel today slammed a draft study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the risks of a proposed high-security biology laboratory in Boston, rejecting it as "not sound and credible." The harsh review suggests that NIH has more work ahead before the half-completed $178 million lab can operate at the highest security level. The proposed Boston University lab in the city's South End, which has $128 million in NIH funding, will include biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) facilities for studying deadly pathogens such as Ebola virus and Lassa fever.