Advocacy
Position statements
It is necessary for ASBMB to have standing positions on issues germane to the scientific community. The PAAC works to draft position statements that are approved by the ASBMB Council.
- ASBMB Statement on President Trump's National Address
- ASBMB Statement on NIH efforts to address sexual harassment
- ASBMB Statement on the appointment of Kelvin Droegemeier
- ASBMB statement on FY19 budget proposal
- ASBMB statement on passage of 2018 budget deal
- ASBMB statement on the 2018 state of the union address
- ASBMB statement on 2018 government shutdown
- ASBMB statement in response to H.R. 1, the tax cuts and jobs act
- ASBMB statement on Trump’s decision to end DACA
- ASBMB responds to Congress passing FY17 appropriations
- ASBMB statement supporting peer-reviewed science at federal agencies
- ASBMB statement on President Donald J. Trump’s executive order restricting immigration
- ASBMB statement regarding the use of preprints in NIH grant review
- ASBMB responds to Trump budget proposal that threatens funding for 2,000 research projects
- ASBMB statement on President Donald Trump’s FY2018 Budget Proposal
- ASBMB statement on its commitment to diversity and inclusion upon the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States
- ASBMB responds to President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget
- ASBMB Statement on 21st Century Cures Act
- ASBMB Position Statement on Human Embryonic Stem Cells
- ASBMB White Paper on Proposals to Support Investigator-Initiated Research
- ASBMB Position Statement on the Peer-Review Process
- ASBMB responds to the Supreme Court ruling on gene patents
- ASBMB white paper on building a Sustainable Biomedical Research Enterprise
- ASBMB statement opposing the Research for Lifesaving Cures Act
- ASBMB statement opposing the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology Act
- ASBMB comments on the 21st Century Cures Discussion Draft
- ASBMB responds to the NIH's request for information on a proposed emeritus award for senior investigators
- ASBMB responds to the NIH's request for information on the Science Education Partnership Award program
- ASBMB responds to the Department of Labor's proposed overtime rule change
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