National Academies recommend single-agency oversight of nanomaterials safety
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s project if not for DMREF,” said El Kadiri. Keten agreed, and said MGI should be a top funding priority, but he also highlighted that single-PI grants “can provide crucial advances in areas where overlap between experiment and theory is virtually non-existent.” DMREF has yet to become a top funding priority. NSF’s FY 2014 budget request slated a modest USD$42 million for
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hile some progress has been made in advancing the US research agenda on environmental, health, and safety aspects of engineered nanomaterials, little work has been done in implementing an integrated research strategy throughout the federal government, according to a report from the US National Research Council. The report, Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and
Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials, suggests that progress could be accelerated if a single agency with sufficient management and budgetary authority was designated to direct environmental, health, and safety research efforts and ensure implementation of a coordinated plan among the federal agencies that make up the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).
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DMREF across the Foundation, with the Directorates for Engineering; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Computer and Information Science and Engineering expected to participate. Furthermore, in the current fiscal climate, the program’s enacted budget may be considerably less, and thus a materials evolution may be more likely than a revolution. Ashley A. White
The global market for nanotechnology is expected to exceed USD$3 trillion by 2015, including products ranging from cosmetics to medical therapies to electronics. The unique characteristics and behaviors of nanomaterials and uncertainties regarding how they interact with biologic systems have spurred research on their potential risks to human health and the environment. However, despite an increase in funding and peer-reviewed publication of research over the past decade, environmental, health, and safety
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NEWS & ANALYSIS SCIENCE POLICY research efforts are not keeping pace with the increasing and evolving applications of nanotechnology, and the potential effects of these materials on humans and ecosystems are still not fully understood. A 2012 Research Council report, A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials, identified four high-priority research areas and developed a set of indicators in each category to
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