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Alabama Legislature Wraps Up Productive Session on Business Tax Bills

The Alabama Legislature adjourned sine die near midnight on May 14, 2025, with the final legislative meeting day bogged down with filibusters by certain senators. Fortunately, a spate of tax bills had already passed both the...more

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New Measures to Encourage Clinical Trials in the United Kingdom

While the US Food and Drug Administration has been experiencing recent reorganization and cuts in personnel, the United Kingdom has its own upcoming policy changes making it easier and faster to initiate and maintain UK...more

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The Week in Weed: May 2025

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Congressional Cannabis Caucus is hoping to lift the ban on cannabis research. A DC dispensary heard...more

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‘Waking Up With Panic Attacks’: NIH 15% Plan Caps Tumultuous Weeks Under New Administration

If NIH succeeds in imposing an across-the-board indirect cost rate of 15%, rough estimates indicate the University of Michigan could lose $119 million a year. Emory University could be down $75 million. For the University of...more

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AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - OECD

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The OECD's AI recommendations encourage Member States to uphold principles of trustworthy AI. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) The OECD's Recommendation of the Council on Artificial...more

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Defending Psychedelics: Congress Includes Psychedelic Provisions in Defense Authorization Act

We told you it may be coming, though we were admittedly cynical about the ability to pass a bill funding psychedelic research given the current political landscape — a narrowly controlled Democratic Senate that is generally...more

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Like a Steam Locomotive, Rolling Down the Track: Biden Signs Marijuana Research Bill

For decades, the federal government only allowed scientists to research marijuana grown on the campus of the University of Mississippi. While Mississippi-grown cannabis will continue to be the subject of federally sanctioned...more

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NSF, OSTP Begin Implementing ‘CHIPS’ Act; Institutions Face New Security Requirements

Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 10 (October, 2022) - What is a malign foreign government talent recruitment program and why does it matter? This is a term with which research compliance officials managing federal...more

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The CHIPS and Sciences ACT of 2022 - The Impact on China

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The CHIPS and Sciences Act of 2022 (the “Act”) was passed by the U.S. Congress on July 27, 2022 and signed into law by President Biden on August 9 of the same year. The Act is an effort to increase semiconductor manufacturing...more

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CHIPS And Science Act Makes Available Billions Of Dollars For The United States Science And Technology Sectors

Infusing billions of dollars into the U.S. semiconductor industry and appropriating billions more for scientific research and development, what is now colloquially referred to as the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 was signed...more

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President Biden Signs CHIPS and Science Act into Law

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On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R.4346), which seeks to bolster the US semiconductor supply chain and promote research and development of advanced technologies in the United States. The...more

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[Virtual Event] 2022 Research Conference - October 6th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm CDT

Stay on top of the latest in research compliance - Do you want to learn: - Current best practices for building and maintaining a  research compliance work plan? - How to better shift your program’s research focus in...more

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Japan Enacts Economic Security Law

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The Japanese parliament has enacted the first comprehensive economic security legislation to enhance Japan's national security from an economic activities perspective, especially focusing on sensitive industry sectors such as...more

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Movement On CMRE Act and MORE Act On Capitol Hill

On Thursday, March 24, 2022, the Senate unanimously passed the CMRE Act (Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act) and House leadership scheduled the MORE Act (Marijuana Opportunity and Expungement Act) for a floor...more

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Congress Aims To Fund Domestic Technology Businesses

Last week, just days ahead of the March 11 funding deadline, President Biden signed into law a $1.5 trillion Omnibus budget, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, to fund federal agencies for the rest of the year....more

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[Event] Research Compliance Conference - June 8th - 10th, Anaheim, CA

Hear about the latest in research compliance - Do you want to learn… - How to prepare for upcoming changes in Medicaid? - Ways to build and maintain a better research compliance work plan for your program? - How...more

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California Lifts Suspension of the Use of NOLs

In June 2020, California lawmakers passed legislation that limited use of net operating losses (NOLs) for California taxpayers with net business income of $1 million or more for the tax years 2020, 2021, and 2022. In...more

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House Of Representatives Passes A Cannabis Bill That Republicans And Democrats Can Agree On

On December 9, 2020, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3797—The Medical Marijuana Research Act (the “Bill”), expanding access to cannabis for medical research purposes. In so doing, a bipartisan majority of members of...more

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10 Things You Need to Know About the EU White Paper on Artificial Intelligence

On February 19, 2020, the European Commission (Commission) published proposals for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with potentially far-reaching implications both for users and developers worldwide. The...more

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Overview of Recent U.S. Tax Reform Part I – Certain Significant Changes Impacting C-Corporations

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On December 22, 2017, H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was signed into law. As the first comprehensive U.S. federal income tax reform in over thirty years, the Tax Act includes dramatic changes to tax...more

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Obama Signs 21st Century Cures Act, Adding $6.3 Billion For Medical Research

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The Cures Act aims to increase the speed by which new drugs are brought to market by streamlining clinical trials, allowing the use of patient data in the regulatory review process, and modernizing U.S. Food and Drug...more

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Congress Suspends Medical Device Tax for 2 Years

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The New York Times reports that Congress has passed a $1.8 trillion package of spending and tax cuts which includes a two-year-long suspension of the medical device tax and a permanent extension of the research and...more

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