FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES

FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES

FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Quality Life Through Research

MISSION STATE MENT

The mission of the Federation of American Societies for E xperimental Biology

(FASEB) is to enhance the ability of biomedical and life scientists to imprOlle through

their research the health well-being and productivity of all people FASEB is a coalishy

tion of independent Member Societies that Serles the interest of biomedical and life scienshy

tists particular those related to public policy issues FASEB facilitates coalition activishy

ties among Member Societies and disseminates information on biological research through

scientific conferences and publications FASEB also offers Member Societies headquarters

f acilities and operational logistic support

MEM BER SOCIETIES

The American Physiological Society

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

American Society for Investigative Pathology

American Society for Nutritional Sciences

The American Association of Immunolog ists

Biophysical Society

American Association of Anatomists

The Protein Society

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

American Society for Clinical Investigation

The Endocrine Society

The American Society of Human Genetics

Society for Developmental Biology

American Peptide Society

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

Society for the Study of Reproduction

Teratology Society

Radiation Research Society

Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Environmental Mutagen Society

CONTENTS

FASEB Officers Advisory Committee amp Board of Directors 2

Board of Directors Report 3

Executive Directors Report 6

Office of Public Affairs 8

2001 Awards 14

Office of Publications 16

Office of Scientific Meetings and Conferences 18

Career ResourcesMARC 21

Logistic Support 22

2001 Financial Reports 25

Member Societies of the Federation 28

FASEB OFFICERS ADVISORY COMMITIEE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2001 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FASEB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Robert R Rich

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Steven L Teitelbaum

SECRETARY

Sidney H Golub

TREASURER

David G Kaufman

PAST-PRESIDENT

Mary Je Hendrix

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ADVI SORY COMMITIEE

Sidney H Golub Rosalba Kampman (chair)

Andrea Pendleton Martin Frank

Robert Newburgh Charles e Hancock

Joan R Goldberg Christine K Carrico

John Hawley Mark E Sobel

Scott Hunt Richard G Allison

Elaine Strass M Michele Hogan

Ida Chow

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APS AAA

Gerald F DiBona Gary e Schoenwolf

Barbara A Horwitz Richard B Marchase

ASBMB Protein Society

Bettie Sue Masters George D Rose

Robert D Wells e Robert Matthews

ASPET ASBMR

Jerry R Mitchell Stephen L Teitelbaum

Marlene L Cohen Nicola e Partridge

ASIP ASCI

Richard G Lynch Barbara E Bierer

Leo T Furcht David A Williams

ASNS Endocrine Society Alfred H Merrill Jr P Michael Conn

Bruce R Bistrian Janet E Hall

AAI ASHG

Robert R Rich Garry R Cutting

Paul W Kincade Haig H Kazazian

Biophysical Society SOB

Stephen H White Eric Olson

Mary D Ba rkley Mary Lou King

Members of the Executive Cabinet

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

t was my privilege to serve as President of the Federation

of American Societies for Experimental Biology for 2001shy

2002 The Federation is the nations largest organization of

biomedical researchers and we are leaders in promoting

policies that will advance science and improve the lives of

Americans and indeed of people throughout the world

through research Researchers in FASEBs 21-member socishy

eties are advancing the frontiers of knowledge in all areas of

medicine and life sciences research and the reach and impact

of the organization continues to grow We are proud to be the

winners of ResearchAmericas 2002 Award for an

Organization That Has Distinguished Itself by Its Advocacy

FEDERAL FUNDING During my service FASEBs principal goal has been to proshy

mote federal funding of biomedical and life sciences research

recognized that it was essential that we continue the effort to

double the budget of NIH in five years and also to be planshy

ning for the future growth and suppOrt of NIH following

completion of the doubling Both objectives were high on my

agenda as President-Elect of FASEB I began working with

our advocacy partners to look closely at the long-term as well

as the near-term-needs for research funding We are now well

positioned for dialogue with NIH officials and members of

Congress and the administration on the next phase of NIHs

growth

Although research funding was a priority there were other

important issues we have addressed Among these have been

improvement of conditions for graduate students and postshy

doctoral fellows they need and deserve substantial increases in

stipends and more complete fringe benefits Working through

FASEBs Science Policy Committee we have continued our

advocacy on behalf of new scientists working to assure the

continued excellence of training and reasonable opportuni ties

funding of new biomedical researchers We have discussed

changes in the peer-review process with NIH administrators

and continue to monitor the effects of such funding mechashy

nisms as modular grants on peer review and grant applications

and performance

My two immediate predecessors David Kaufman and Marl

Hendrix were passionate and articulate in their advocacy for

new programs that would increase the flow of physician-scishy

entists into the biomedical research workforce They argued

persuasively (and successfully) that the huge debt burdens of

many graduating medical students were a major impediment

to research training of young physicians During this year we

have worked with NIH in the initial implementation of a loan

forgiveness program directed to these physicians entering

careers in patient-oriented and disease-related research and we

continue our strong support of programs to encourage fur-

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ther expansion of the pool

of physician-scienrists enshy

gaged in basic science

research

We have also been interestshy

ed in relief from the

increasing regulatory burshy

dens that scientists and

research institutions face

During the past year we

have focused particularly

on regulatory issues of

research with laboratory

animals and human subshy

jects We have opposed we

hope successfully unnecesshy

sary and expensive USDA

regulation of the care of rats mice and birds

We have discussed the implications for

research of pending government regulations on medical

records privacy and on issues of research integrity And we

have strongly supported programs that provide desirable new

protections particularly for human subjects of research We

are proud to be one of the founding members of the

Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection

Programs

We correctly anticipated that issues regarding the derivation

and urilization of human stem cells would be a major concern

during this year We were pleased when President Bushs decishy

sion on stem cells opened the door to federal funding This

was an important step forward and even though it was not as

broad as we had advocated it does mean that this important

work can begin and that the work needed to support our

arguments with data can start wi th NIH support Since the

Presidents announcement we have discussed with NIH offishy

cials mechanisms to facilitate distribution of stem cell lines to

invesrigators More recently we have been confronted with

issues of human cloning We have taken a strong position in

opposition to reproducrive cloning while supporting legislashy

tion that would allow continued research on human nuclear

transplantation to produce stem cells The outcome of that

debate in the Congress remains unclear at this writing

We have made important strides on each of these issues but I

have also learned-as did my predecessors-that the priorities

we set are not always the priorities that we confront But never

has that been so true as during this past year FASEBs agenshy

da along with most of our national priorities were profoundshy

ly changed by September 11 Immediately after the terrorists

attacks our traditional advocacy was temporarily suspended

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BOARD OF DIRECTOWS REPORT

in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

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and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES

FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Quality Life Through Research

MISSION STATE MENT

The mission of the Federation of American Societies for E xperimental Biology

(FASEB) is to enhance the ability of biomedical and life scientists to imprOlle through

their research the health well-being and productivity of all people FASEB is a coalishy

tion of independent Member Societies that Serles the interest of biomedical and life scienshy

tists particular those related to public policy issues FASEB facilitates coalition activishy

ties among Member Societies and disseminates information on biological research through

scientific conferences and publications FASEB also offers Member Societies headquarters

f acilities and operational logistic support

MEM BER SOCIETIES

The American Physiological Society

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

American Society for Investigative Pathology

American Society for Nutritional Sciences

The American Association of Immunolog ists

Biophysical Society

American Association of Anatomists

The Protein Society

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

American Society for Clinical Investigation

The Endocrine Society

The American Society of Human Genetics

Society for Developmental Biology

American Peptide Society

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

Society for the Study of Reproduction

Teratology Society

Radiation Research Society

Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Environmental Mutagen Society

CONTENTS

FASEB Officers Advisory Committee amp Board of Directors 2

Board of Directors Report 3

Executive Directors Report 6

Office of Public Affairs 8

2001 Awards 14

Office of Publications 16

Office of Scientific Meetings and Conferences 18

Career ResourcesMARC 21

Logistic Support 22

2001 Financial Reports 25

Member Societies of the Federation 28

FASEB OFFICERS ADVISORY COMMITIEE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2001 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FASEB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Robert R Rich

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Steven L Teitelbaum

SECRETARY

Sidney H Golub

TREASURER

David G Kaufman

PAST-PRESIDENT

Mary Je Hendrix

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ADVI SORY COMMITIEE

Sidney H Golub Rosalba Kampman (chair)

Andrea Pendleton Martin Frank

Robert Newburgh Charles e Hancock

Joan R Goldberg Christine K Carrico

John Hawley Mark E Sobel

Scott Hunt Richard G Allison

Elaine Strass M Michele Hogan

Ida Chow

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APS AAA

Gerald F DiBona Gary e Schoenwolf

Barbara A Horwitz Richard B Marchase

ASBMB Protein Society

Bettie Sue Masters George D Rose

Robert D Wells e Robert Matthews

ASPET ASBMR

Jerry R Mitchell Stephen L Teitelbaum

Marlene L Cohen Nicola e Partridge

ASIP ASCI

Richard G Lynch Barbara E Bierer

Leo T Furcht David A Williams

ASNS Endocrine Society Alfred H Merrill Jr P Michael Conn

Bruce R Bistrian Janet E Hall

AAI ASHG

Robert R Rich Garry R Cutting

Paul W Kincade Haig H Kazazian

Biophysical Society SOB

Stephen H White Eric Olson

Mary D Ba rkley Mary Lou King

Members of the Executive Cabinet

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

t was my privilege to serve as President of the Federation

of American Societies for Experimental Biology for 2001shy

2002 The Federation is the nations largest organization of

biomedical researchers and we are leaders in promoting

policies that will advance science and improve the lives of

Americans and indeed of people throughout the world

through research Researchers in FASEBs 21-member socishy

eties are advancing the frontiers of knowledge in all areas of

medicine and life sciences research and the reach and impact

of the organization continues to grow We are proud to be the

winners of ResearchAmericas 2002 Award for an

Organization That Has Distinguished Itself by Its Advocacy

FEDERAL FUNDING During my service FASEBs principal goal has been to proshy

mote federal funding of biomedical and life sciences research

recognized that it was essential that we continue the effort to

double the budget of NIH in five years and also to be planshy

ning for the future growth and suppOrt of NIH following

completion of the doubling Both objectives were high on my

agenda as President-Elect of FASEB I began working with

our advocacy partners to look closely at the long-term as well

as the near-term-needs for research funding We are now well

positioned for dialogue with NIH officials and members of

Congress and the administration on the next phase of NIHs

growth

Although research funding was a priority there were other

important issues we have addressed Among these have been

improvement of conditions for graduate students and postshy

doctoral fellows they need and deserve substantial increases in

stipends and more complete fringe benefits Working through

FASEBs Science Policy Committee we have continued our

advocacy on behalf of new scientists working to assure the

continued excellence of training and reasonable opportuni ties

funding of new biomedical researchers We have discussed

changes in the peer-review process with NIH administrators

and continue to monitor the effects of such funding mechashy

nisms as modular grants on peer review and grant applications

and performance

My two immediate predecessors David Kaufman and Marl

Hendrix were passionate and articulate in their advocacy for

new programs that would increase the flow of physician-scishy

entists into the biomedical research workforce They argued

persuasively (and successfully) that the huge debt burdens of

many graduating medical students were a major impediment

to research training of young physicians During this year we

have worked with NIH in the initial implementation of a loan

forgiveness program directed to these physicians entering

careers in patient-oriented and disease-related research and we

continue our strong support of programs to encourage fur-

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ther expansion of the pool

of physician-scienrists enshy

gaged in basic science

research

We have also been interestshy

ed in relief from the

increasing regulatory burshy

dens that scientists and

research institutions face

During the past year we

have focused particularly

on regulatory issues of

research with laboratory

animals and human subshy

jects We have opposed we

hope successfully unnecesshy

sary and expensive USDA

regulation of the care of rats mice and birds

We have discussed the implications for

research of pending government regulations on medical

records privacy and on issues of research integrity And we

have strongly supported programs that provide desirable new

protections particularly for human subjects of research We

are proud to be one of the founding members of the

Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection

Programs

We correctly anticipated that issues regarding the derivation

and urilization of human stem cells would be a major concern

during this year We were pleased when President Bushs decishy

sion on stem cells opened the door to federal funding This

was an important step forward and even though it was not as

broad as we had advocated it does mean that this important

work can begin and that the work needed to support our

arguments with data can start wi th NIH support Since the

Presidents announcement we have discussed with NIH offishy

cials mechanisms to facilitate distribution of stem cell lines to

invesrigators More recently we have been confronted with

issues of human cloning We have taken a strong position in

opposition to reproducrive cloning while supporting legislashy

tion that would allow continued research on human nuclear

transplantation to produce stem cells The outcome of that

debate in the Congress remains unclear at this writing

We have made important strides on each of these issues but I

have also learned-as did my predecessors-that the priorities

we set are not always the priorities that we confront But never

has that been so true as during this past year FASEBs agenshy

da along with most of our national priorities were profoundshy

ly changed by September 11 Immediately after the terrorists

attacks our traditional advocacy was temporarily suspended

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BOARD OF DIRECTOWS REPORT

in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

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and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

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of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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CONTENTS

FASEB Officers Advisory Committee amp Board of Directors 2

Board of Directors Report 3

Executive Directors Report 6

Office of Public Affairs 8

2001 Awards 14

Office of Publications 16

Office of Scientific Meetings and Conferences 18

Career ResourcesMARC 21

Logistic Support 22

2001 Financial Reports 25

Member Societies of the Federation 28

FASEB OFFICERS ADVISORY COMMITIEE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2001 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FASEB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Robert R Rich

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Steven L Teitelbaum

SECRETARY

Sidney H Golub

TREASURER

David G Kaufman

PAST-PRESIDENT

Mary Je Hendrix

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ADVI SORY COMMITIEE

Sidney H Golub Rosalba Kampman (chair)

Andrea Pendleton Martin Frank

Robert Newburgh Charles e Hancock

Joan R Goldberg Christine K Carrico

John Hawley Mark E Sobel

Scott Hunt Richard G Allison

Elaine Strass M Michele Hogan

Ida Chow

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APS AAA

Gerald F DiBona Gary e Schoenwolf

Barbara A Horwitz Richard B Marchase

ASBMB Protein Society

Bettie Sue Masters George D Rose

Robert D Wells e Robert Matthews

ASPET ASBMR

Jerry R Mitchell Stephen L Teitelbaum

Marlene L Cohen Nicola e Partridge

ASIP ASCI

Richard G Lynch Barbara E Bierer

Leo T Furcht David A Williams

ASNS Endocrine Society Alfred H Merrill Jr P Michael Conn

Bruce R Bistrian Janet E Hall

AAI ASHG

Robert R Rich Garry R Cutting

Paul W Kincade Haig H Kazazian

Biophysical Society SOB

Stephen H White Eric Olson

Mary D Ba rkley Mary Lou King

Members of the Executive Cabinet

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

t was my privilege to serve as President of the Federation

of American Societies for Experimental Biology for 2001shy

2002 The Federation is the nations largest organization of

biomedical researchers and we are leaders in promoting

policies that will advance science and improve the lives of

Americans and indeed of people throughout the world

through research Researchers in FASEBs 21-member socishy

eties are advancing the frontiers of knowledge in all areas of

medicine and life sciences research and the reach and impact

of the organization continues to grow We are proud to be the

winners of ResearchAmericas 2002 Award for an

Organization That Has Distinguished Itself by Its Advocacy

FEDERAL FUNDING During my service FASEBs principal goal has been to proshy

mote federal funding of biomedical and life sciences research

recognized that it was essential that we continue the effort to

double the budget of NIH in five years and also to be planshy

ning for the future growth and suppOrt of NIH following

completion of the doubling Both objectives were high on my

agenda as President-Elect of FASEB I began working with

our advocacy partners to look closely at the long-term as well

as the near-term-needs for research funding We are now well

positioned for dialogue with NIH officials and members of

Congress and the administration on the next phase of NIHs

growth

Although research funding was a priority there were other

important issues we have addressed Among these have been

improvement of conditions for graduate students and postshy

doctoral fellows they need and deserve substantial increases in

stipends and more complete fringe benefits Working through

FASEBs Science Policy Committee we have continued our

advocacy on behalf of new scientists working to assure the

continued excellence of training and reasonable opportuni ties

funding of new biomedical researchers We have discussed

changes in the peer-review process with NIH administrators

and continue to monitor the effects of such funding mechashy

nisms as modular grants on peer review and grant applications

and performance

My two immediate predecessors David Kaufman and Marl

Hendrix were passionate and articulate in their advocacy for

new programs that would increase the flow of physician-scishy

entists into the biomedical research workforce They argued

persuasively (and successfully) that the huge debt burdens of

many graduating medical students were a major impediment

to research training of young physicians During this year we

have worked with NIH in the initial implementation of a loan

forgiveness program directed to these physicians entering

careers in patient-oriented and disease-related research and we

continue our strong support of programs to encourage fur-

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ther expansion of the pool

of physician-scienrists enshy

gaged in basic science

research

We have also been interestshy

ed in relief from the

increasing regulatory burshy

dens that scientists and

research institutions face

During the past year we

have focused particularly

on regulatory issues of

research with laboratory

animals and human subshy

jects We have opposed we

hope successfully unnecesshy

sary and expensive USDA

regulation of the care of rats mice and birds

We have discussed the implications for

research of pending government regulations on medical

records privacy and on issues of research integrity And we

have strongly supported programs that provide desirable new

protections particularly for human subjects of research We

are proud to be one of the founding members of the

Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection

Programs

We correctly anticipated that issues regarding the derivation

and urilization of human stem cells would be a major concern

during this year We were pleased when President Bushs decishy

sion on stem cells opened the door to federal funding This

was an important step forward and even though it was not as

broad as we had advocated it does mean that this important

work can begin and that the work needed to support our

arguments with data can start wi th NIH support Since the

Presidents announcement we have discussed with NIH offishy

cials mechanisms to facilitate distribution of stem cell lines to

invesrigators More recently we have been confronted with

issues of human cloning We have taken a strong position in

opposition to reproducrive cloning while supporting legislashy

tion that would allow continued research on human nuclear

transplantation to produce stem cells The outcome of that

debate in the Congress remains unclear at this writing

We have made important strides on each of these issues but I

have also learned-as did my predecessors-that the priorities

we set are not always the priorities that we confront But never

has that been so true as during this past year FASEBs agenshy

da along with most of our national priorities were profoundshy

ly changed by September 11 Immediately after the terrorists

attacks our traditional advocacy was temporarily suspended

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BOARD OF DIRECTOWS REPORT

in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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FASEB OFFICERS ADVISORY COMMITIEE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2001 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FASEB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Robert R Rich

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Steven L Teitelbaum

SECRETARY

Sidney H Golub

TREASURER

David G Kaufman

PAST-PRESIDENT

Mary Je Hendrix

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ADVI SORY COMMITIEE

Sidney H Golub Rosalba Kampman (chair)

Andrea Pendleton Martin Frank

Robert Newburgh Charles e Hancock

Joan R Goldberg Christine K Carrico

John Hawley Mark E Sobel

Scott Hunt Richard G Allison

Elaine Strass M Michele Hogan

Ida Chow

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APS AAA

Gerald F DiBona Gary e Schoenwolf

Barbara A Horwitz Richard B Marchase

ASBMB Protein Society

Bettie Sue Masters George D Rose

Robert D Wells e Robert Matthews

ASPET ASBMR

Jerry R Mitchell Stephen L Teitelbaum

Marlene L Cohen Nicola e Partridge

ASIP ASCI

Richard G Lynch Barbara E Bierer

Leo T Furcht David A Williams

ASNS Endocrine Society Alfred H Merrill Jr P Michael Conn

Bruce R Bistrian Janet E Hall

AAI ASHG

Robert R Rich Garry R Cutting

Paul W Kincade Haig H Kazazian

Biophysical Society SOB

Stephen H White Eric Olson

Mary D Ba rkley Mary Lou King

Members of the Executive Cabinet

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

t was my privilege to serve as President of the Federation

of American Societies for Experimental Biology for 2001shy

2002 The Federation is the nations largest organization of

biomedical researchers and we are leaders in promoting

policies that will advance science and improve the lives of

Americans and indeed of people throughout the world

through research Researchers in FASEBs 21-member socishy

eties are advancing the frontiers of knowledge in all areas of

medicine and life sciences research and the reach and impact

of the organization continues to grow We are proud to be the

winners of ResearchAmericas 2002 Award for an

Organization That Has Distinguished Itself by Its Advocacy

FEDERAL FUNDING During my service FASEBs principal goal has been to proshy

mote federal funding of biomedical and life sciences research

recognized that it was essential that we continue the effort to

double the budget of NIH in five years and also to be planshy

ning for the future growth and suppOrt of NIH following

completion of the doubling Both objectives were high on my

agenda as President-Elect of FASEB I began working with

our advocacy partners to look closely at the long-term as well

as the near-term-needs for research funding We are now well

positioned for dialogue with NIH officials and members of

Congress and the administration on the next phase of NIHs

growth

Although research funding was a priority there were other

important issues we have addressed Among these have been

improvement of conditions for graduate students and postshy

doctoral fellows they need and deserve substantial increases in

stipends and more complete fringe benefits Working through

FASEBs Science Policy Committee we have continued our

advocacy on behalf of new scientists working to assure the

continued excellence of training and reasonable opportuni ties

funding of new biomedical researchers We have discussed

changes in the peer-review process with NIH administrators

and continue to monitor the effects of such funding mechashy

nisms as modular grants on peer review and grant applications

and performance

My two immediate predecessors David Kaufman and Marl

Hendrix were passionate and articulate in their advocacy for

new programs that would increase the flow of physician-scishy

entists into the biomedical research workforce They argued

persuasively (and successfully) that the huge debt burdens of

many graduating medical students were a major impediment

to research training of young physicians During this year we

have worked with NIH in the initial implementation of a loan

forgiveness program directed to these physicians entering

careers in patient-oriented and disease-related research and we

continue our strong support of programs to encourage fur-

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ther expansion of the pool

of physician-scienrists enshy

gaged in basic science

research

We have also been interestshy

ed in relief from the

increasing regulatory burshy

dens that scientists and

research institutions face

During the past year we

have focused particularly

on regulatory issues of

research with laboratory

animals and human subshy

jects We have opposed we

hope successfully unnecesshy

sary and expensive USDA

regulation of the care of rats mice and birds

We have discussed the implications for

research of pending government regulations on medical

records privacy and on issues of research integrity And we

have strongly supported programs that provide desirable new

protections particularly for human subjects of research We

are proud to be one of the founding members of the

Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection

Programs

We correctly anticipated that issues regarding the derivation

and urilization of human stem cells would be a major concern

during this year We were pleased when President Bushs decishy

sion on stem cells opened the door to federal funding This

was an important step forward and even though it was not as

broad as we had advocated it does mean that this important

work can begin and that the work needed to support our

arguments with data can start wi th NIH support Since the

Presidents announcement we have discussed with NIH offishy

cials mechanisms to facilitate distribution of stem cell lines to

invesrigators More recently we have been confronted with

issues of human cloning We have taken a strong position in

opposition to reproducrive cloning while supporting legislashy

tion that would allow continued research on human nuclear

transplantation to produce stem cells The outcome of that

debate in the Congress remains unclear at this writing

We have made important strides on each of these issues but I

have also learned-as did my predecessors-that the priorities

we set are not always the priorities that we confront But never

has that been so true as during this past year FASEBs agenshy

da along with most of our national priorities were profoundshy

ly changed by September 11 Immediately after the terrorists

attacks our traditional advocacy was temporarily suspended

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in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

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of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

t was my privilege to serve as President of the Federation

of American Societies for Experimental Biology for 2001shy

2002 The Federation is the nations largest organization of

biomedical researchers and we are leaders in promoting

policies that will advance science and improve the lives of

Americans and indeed of people throughout the world

through research Researchers in FASEBs 21-member socishy

eties are advancing the frontiers of knowledge in all areas of

medicine and life sciences research and the reach and impact

of the organization continues to grow We are proud to be the

winners of ResearchAmericas 2002 Award for an

Organization That Has Distinguished Itself by Its Advocacy

FEDERAL FUNDING During my service FASEBs principal goal has been to proshy

mote federal funding of biomedical and life sciences research

recognized that it was essential that we continue the effort to

double the budget of NIH in five years and also to be planshy

ning for the future growth and suppOrt of NIH following

completion of the doubling Both objectives were high on my

agenda as President-Elect of FASEB I began working with

our advocacy partners to look closely at the long-term as well

as the near-term-needs for research funding We are now well

positioned for dialogue with NIH officials and members of

Congress and the administration on the next phase of NIHs

growth

Although research funding was a priority there were other

important issues we have addressed Among these have been

improvement of conditions for graduate students and postshy

doctoral fellows they need and deserve substantial increases in

stipends and more complete fringe benefits Working through

FASEBs Science Policy Committee we have continued our

advocacy on behalf of new scientists working to assure the

continued excellence of training and reasonable opportuni ties

funding of new biomedical researchers We have discussed

changes in the peer-review process with NIH administrators

and continue to monitor the effects of such funding mechashy

nisms as modular grants on peer review and grant applications

and performance

My two immediate predecessors David Kaufman and Marl

Hendrix were passionate and articulate in their advocacy for

new programs that would increase the flow of physician-scishy

entists into the biomedical research workforce They argued

persuasively (and successfully) that the huge debt burdens of

many graduating medical students were a major impediment

to research training of young physicians During this year we

have worked with NIH in the initial implementation of a loan

forgiveness program directed to these physicians entering

careers in patient-oriented and disease-related research and we

continue our strong support of programs to encourage fur-

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ther expansion of the pool

of physician-scienrists enshy

gaged in basic science

research

We have also been interestshy

ed in relief from the

increasing regulatory burshy

dens that scientists and

research institutions face

During the past year we

have focused particularly

on regulatory issues of

research with laboratory

animals and human subshy

jects We have opposed we

hope successfully unnecesshy

sary and expensive USDA

regulation of the care of rats mice and birds

We have discussed the implications for

research of pending government regulations on medical

records privacy and on issues of research integrity And we

have strongly supported programs that provide desirable new

protections particularly for human subjects of research We

are proud to be one of the founding members of the

Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection

Programs

We correctly anticipated that issues regarding the derivation

and urilization of human stem cells would be a major concern

during this year We were pleased when President Bushs decishy

sion on stem cells opened the door to federal funding This

was an important step forward and even though it was not as

broad as we had advocated it does mean that this important

work can begin and that the work needed to support our

arguments with data can start wi th NIH support Since the

Presidents announcement we have discussed with NIH offishy

cials mechanisms to facilitate distribution of stem cell lines to

invesrigators More recently we have been confronted with

issues of human cloning We have taken a strong position in

opposition to reproducrive cloning while supporting legislashy

tion that would allow continued research on human nuclear

transplantation to produce stem cells The outcome of that

debate in the Congress remains unclear at this writing

We have made important strides on each of these issues but I

have also learned-as did my predecessors-that the priorities

we set are not always the priorities that we confront But never

has that been so true as during this past year FASEBs agenshy

da along with most of our national priorities were profoundshy

ly changed by September 11 Immediately after the terrorists

attacks our traditional advocacy was temporarily suspended

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BOARD OF DIRECTOWS REPORT

in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

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of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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BOARD OF DIRECTOWS REPORT

in favor of an effort to determine how the research communishy

ty might offer assistance to policy makers in Washington After

the anthrax attacks in October growing alarm over the threat

of bioterrorism led not only to calls for additional research but

also for restricting the conduct and publication of research

FASEBs expertise was frequently sought on these issues

In December I co-chaired a workshop at the National

Academy of Sciences on balancing national security needs with

open scientific communication We discussed the classification

system for microbial agents and possibly for laboratory

reagents and equipment whether andor how any basic

research in university laboratories should be declared to be

classified new restrictions on monitoring of researchers and

research trainees from other countries and concerns for free

exchange of ideas and publication of research results

At the end of December the FY2002 appropriations process

concluded with a very positive result for NIH For the fourth

straight year Congress provided an unprecedented funding

increase for NIH and sustained the momentum for a five-year

doubling of the NIH budget This doubling hopefully comshy

pleted in FY2003 will provide tremendous opportunities for

new research However we will soon face the important chalshy

lenge of maintaining growth following this period of dramatic

funding increases We will be making our argument in the comshy

ing months based on desirability of a return to the historic

(over several decades) doubling of the NIH budget approxishy

mately every ten years If this historic rate of growth is not susshy

tained in the years following the five-year doubling we believe

that the anticipated gains of that extraordinary process will not

be carried significantly into the future

In summary during this year FASEB has continued to fight for

the concerns of biomedical scientists in policy areas that affect

their ability to conduct research As I view these issues past the

mid-point of my term I am confident that we are making

meaningful progress

FASEBS GOVERNANCE One of the important tasks undertaken by the Board of

Directors in 2001 was a careful review of our governance

structures including the bylaws that are the foundation of our

governance Past-Presidents William Brinkley and David

Kaufman convened an ad hoc committee on governance to

consider options These discussions involved some current

members of the Board and several past officers The options

developed by the committee were discussed with the Board and

specific language was drafted to reflect the changes that had

wide support These changes were designed to increase the

involvement of Board members in the working of FASEB to

increase the effectiveness of the officers and to make the meetshy

ings of the Board more focused on important policy matters

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One set of changes involved appointing directors in their first

and second year of service to various FASEB committees

including the Finance Committee the Publications and

Communications Committee the Science Policy Committee

the Excellence in Science Award Committee and the Research

Conferences Advisory Committee The result of these changes

will be Board members deepening knowledge of the vital

importance of continuing FASEB activities besides those

involving Public Affairs Board members in their third and

fourth years of service will continue to constitute the Public

Affairs Executive Committee which is authorized to act for the

Board on matters of public policy

Perhaps the most important changes regarded the roles of the

officers The treasurer had previously been a position that had

rotated among the constituent societies Now that the

Federation has fourteen corporate members rotation was no

longer practical and the bylaws were amended to have the

treasurer appointed from among the Finance Committee memshy

bership The time of the elections of the President-Elect and

FAS EB has continued to fi ght for the concerns of biomed ical

scientists in policy areas that affect their ability to conduct research

the Vice-President-Elect for Science Policy was changed so that

the candidates would be drawn from the Directors in their

third rather than their second year of service In this way the

other directors would get to know them better This change

necessitates that those elected serve an additional year on the

Board but it removes the conflict inherent for the officers of

serving both as a Society representative and a FASEB officer

Finally a large and ponderous Executive Committee was

replaced with a smaller Executive Cabinet consisting of the

President President-Elect immediate Past-President Viceshy

President for Science Policy and Treasurer with the Executive

Director serving as the non-voting Secretary The cabinet now

meets weekly by teleconference and conducts much of the

every-day business of the Federation Most of these changes

were effective immediately although the changes in the election

of officers require 2002 as a transition period

One transition that was unexpected was the resignation of

Treasurer Thomas Kindt because of new conflict-of-interest

regulations at NIH Fortunately Past-President David

Kaufman agreed to serve as Interim President for 2001-2002

Ye then employed our new system and the Finance Committee

nominated several of its members as candidates for the

position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

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and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

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of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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position of Treasurer-Elect Dr Stephen Goodman of the

American Society for Human Genetics was selected by the

president and approved by the Board of Directors Dr

Goodman will serve as treasurer for 2002-2004

Certainly one of the highlights of 2001 was the approval by

the Board of Directors of a new headquarters building on the

Bethesda campus This upgrade of our physical plant is an

important investment in our future and a clear statement of

FASEBs intention to continue to contribute to the well-being

of American science for many years to come New facilities

will allow its member Societies that reside on the Beaumont

campus to continue to grow and to augment the many proshy

grams they offer in service to the scientific community

The successes we achieved in 2001 are owed to many dedicatshy

ed and hard-working people Many scientists give of their time

and expertise to serve on the FASEB Board of Directors and

FASEB committees They do a great service to our profession

BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT

and we are profoundly grateful I especially want to acknowlshy

edge the commitment and good cheer of my fellow FASEB

officers Past-President Mary Hendrix President-Elect Steve

Teitelbaum Vice-President Bettie Sue Masters and Treasurer

Dave Kaufman They are a wonderful team of superb scholshy

ars who share a deep concern about the future of medical

research

Finally I want to thank the staff at FASEB for their unfailing

support Being president of FASEB has been fun-but thats

only because Sid Golub Howard Garrison Pat White and the

outstanding members of their staffs have done the vast majorshy

ity of the work leaving the president to bask in the reflected

glory of their energy and creativity Volunteers need professhy

sional help and the FASEB team provides it without hesitashy

tion and wi th ex traordinary skill

Robert R Rich MD President

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

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and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

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of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

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with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

he year 2001 pointed out the importance of what we

are doing in biomedical research as no other year ever

did The shocking assault on civilians on September

11 followed soon thereafter by the inrroduction of

dangerous microbes into the countrys mail caused all of us to

reflect on the dangers of our world The work of those who

seek to prevent and cure disease became even more important

as a statement of human values and as a tangible contribution

to the betterment of our nation and world

Public policy is the central mission of our Federation and the

events of September 11 added to an already busy FASEB pubshy

lic affairs agenda As always we had been focused on the issue

of funding for basic and health related research This was an

especially important year in that effort as we were intent on

promoting congressional suppOrt for the crucial fourth year of

the five-year doubling of the NIH budget We were also workshy

ing hard on expanding support for the National Science

Foundation and other funding agencies The traditional

ties as our Bethesda

Maryland campus is zoned

for residential usage This

zorung has been in place

for 46 years and our office

building and other imshy

provements were all conshy

structed with special

exceptions to the zoning

FASEB has a well justified

reputation as a good neighshy

bor in the residential comshy

munity in which we reside

Our 46 years of carefully

maIntaining our beautiful

grounds and polite considshy

eration of our neighbors

were repeatedly noted in

negotiations Suburban Montgomery

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

FASEB policy issues such as supporting the development of

the next generation of investigators protecting the use of anishy

mals in research and promoting ethical scientific practices

occupied our attention Then the controversies involving the

use of human embryonic stem cells and the possibility of the

reproduction of humans by cloning technology added to our

busy congressional agenda Add to this mix the unexpected

issue of bioterrorism and the FASEB Board of Directors its

committees and officers and the professional staff of the

FASEB Office of Public Affairs were aJl very busy These

important issues are discussed further in the Public Affairs

section of this report

One public policy issue in which FASEB played an instrushy

mental role was the creation of a new accrediting agency for

human subject protection programs FASEB joined six other

not-for-profit organizations representing American universishy

ties medical schools social scientists patient advocacy groups

and medical ethicists to create the Association for the

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

(AAHRPP) This is an effort to promote the best practices in

human subject research to protect patients through voluntary

programs and to inform the research community of changes

in policies affecting research with human subjects Five of the

21 members of the new AAHRPP Board of Directors are

members of FASEB societies and FASEB will continue to be

involved as this organization gears up to offer voluntary instishy

tutional accreditation in 2002

The major focus on the FASEB campus was the progress

toward a new headquarters building The biggest challenge

was gaining approval from the Montgomery County authori-

County however has a strong anti-growth

orientation and some neighbors had deep concerns about the

effect of our planned expansion on local traffic patterns The

FASEB petition to build a 50000 square foot headquarters

office building and a new parking srructure was finally

approved in late October of 2001 after we made four separate

presentations to the zoning authorities delaying the entire

project about six months

The plan for a new building and parking structure was preshy

sented to the FASEB Board of Directors in December by

Building Committee Chair and former FASEB President John

Suttie Financing will be accomplished by issuing bonds

through the State of Maryland These bonds will secure a line

of credit from a bank This approach allows US to use tax-free

financing so that the interest costs to FASEB will be minishy

rruzed The Board unanimously approved the approach and

key personnel are moving ahead with detailed planning

Groundbreaking is projected for the late spring or early sumshy

mer of 2002 and occupancy for mid-2003

The construction of this new headquarters building will

accomplish several important goals It will provide high qualishy

ty new space for many of our member societies and for

FASEB for headquarters functions Since our office space is

currently 100 occupied the creation of new space will also

relieve overcrowding and allow some flex space so that our

current facilities can be modernized and improved This in

turn will allow us to upgrade the infrastructure of our current

buildings so that their lifespan will be greatly extended and

their efficiency greatly improved These changes are essential

for us to provide facilities that can allow our member societies

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and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

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and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

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Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

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SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

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I

and FASEB to offer efficient and effective services to the scishy

entific community

In summary 2001 was an imporshytant year for FASEB We continued

a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in matters

of science policy

FASEB depends on a combination of dues and service revshy

enue in order to maintain its programs and 2001 was a good

year on the operations side of FASEB Once again revenues

were led by our traditional activities-publications and scienshy

tific meetings It was particularly satisfying that all operating

departments were in the black in 2001 This means that we

have focused our activities on those services that have a marshy

ket and we are not carrying service areas that cannot pull their

own weight This is testimonial to the department heads of

those services for organizing their services effectively even in

a contracting national economy while maintaining a competishy

tive price structure

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORT

The bo ttom line for 2001 was a positive $74000 based on

revenues from dues and services less all expenses but before

any consideration of investment income As discussed in the

comptrollers report 2001 was a rare year in that our investshy

ments lost value Our reserves are invested quite conservativeshy

ly and still produced more than $500000 of interest dividend

and realized capital gains However Our equity portfolio

declined by about 5 Although this performance was much

better than the broad market indices it still is a decrease in

available resources We are optimistic that our portfolio will

return to its regular growth pattern as the national economy

emerges from recession

In summary 2001 was an important year for FASEB We conshy

tinued a pattern of high visibility and effective advocacy in

matters of science policy We were able to maintain and even

expand this effort despite a decline in the value of our

reserves because of a continuing strong performance in our

sales of services We look forward to an exciting 2002 in which

we will undertake the first major capital improvement in the

physical plant of our Bethesda campus in two decades We feel

strongly that an improved headquarters facility will provide

much needed growth opporrunities for the Federation and its

constituent societies

Sidney H Golub PhD Executive Director

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

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Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

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- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

10

Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

11

SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Howard Garrison PhD Director

ASEBs unique structure and approach to public affairs

gives it a distinctive advocacy role and enables the

Federation to serve as a leading force in shaping bioshy

medical research policy As a coalition representing a

wide range of disciplines FASEB is an active voice for a broad

spectrum of the research community By virtue of its size

diversity and relationship with working scientists the

Federation is frequently consulted by legislators federal agenshy

cies and organizations concerned about science policy

PUBLIC AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS The year 2001 will always be colored by the September 11

attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the

bioterrorism that followed In the immediate aftermath of

these events FASEB suspended its normal advocacy activities

But the nations response to the attacks called for increased

emphasis on research and we were soon re-engaged in the

policy process-discussing responses to bioterrorism as well

as the major issues that had been on our agenda for most of

the year research funding animals in research stem celJ

research and human cloning

RESEARCH FUNDING

Federal appropriations for biomedical research were substanshy

tially increased during 2001 Funding for the Natio nal

Institutes of Health (NIH) rose by 15 percent for FY 2002

and other science agencies also received large increases

Appropriations for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rose by 82 percent and funding for tl1e National Research

Initiative Competitive Grants program in the US Department

of Agriculture increased by 138 percent Throughout the year

FASEB was active in efforts to raise research funding and proshy

mote policies that helped advance research in all fields of scishy

ence

The Federations efforts to bring the biomedical scientists pershy

spective to the decision-making process began in January

when FASEB President Mary Jc Hendrix held a press conshy

ference announcing our funding recommendations for FY

2002 Throughout the winter and spring Dr Hendrix and

FASEB President-Elect Robert R Rich met with administrashy

tion officials and members of Congress Mary Hendrix met

with Rep Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) in January shortly after he

was appointed chair of House Labor Health and Human

Services Education (L-HHS-ED) Appropriations

Subcommittee In February she met with him again and also

discussed funding for research with Rep Vern Ehlers (Rshy

lVlich) and staff for senators Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Pete

Domenici (R-NM) and John McCain (R-Ariz)

Concerned about long-term developments in NIH funding

Mary Hendrigt( Robert Rich and Vice President for Science

Policy Bettie Sue Masters began a dialog with FASEB advocashy

cy partners on how best to anticipate the future funding needs

for biomedical research They shared their insights in a series

of meetings with NIH leadership including Acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein and Institute Directors Francis

Collins and Claude Lenfant

On March 7 Dr Hendrix met with senators Pete Domenici

(R-NM) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) to discuss funding for

research and in Iowa on March 16 she hosted a visiting conshy

gressional delegation consisting of Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) Rep Greg Ganske (R-Iowa) and Rep

Jim Leach (R-Iowa)

Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs recommendation for NIH

funding before the House L-HHS-ED Appropriations

Subcommittee on March 20 On March 21 she joined the

Presidents of the American Chemical Physical and

Mathematical Societies to testify on NSF budget recommenshy

dations before the House Veterans Administration Housing

and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

(VA HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee As part of its conshy

tinuing effort to raise funds for NSF an e-mail alert was sent

to individual members of FASEBs societies in April urging

them to write their senators and request that they endorse the

letter from senators Kit Bond (R-Mo) and Barbara Mikulski

(D-ilrd) calling for significant increases in the NSF budget

On May 23 Dr Hendrix testified on research funding before

the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee In June

she wrote to Rep James Walsh (R-NY) chair of the House

VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee explaining the

unique contributions of the NIH and NSF life sciences

research programs

FASEB President Mary LC Hendrix stands with Eli M Pearce President-Elect of the American Chemical Society George H Trilling President of the American Physical Society and Hyman Bass President of the American Mathematical Society outside of the Capitol

8

Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

9

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

_-r

~~

- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

10

Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

11

SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

Robert R Rich began his term of office as FASEB President

with a July 11 press event at the National Press Club and a

series of meetings with prominent legislators including Sen

Arlen Specter (R-Penn) Ranking Member of the Senate Lshy

HHS-ED Appropriations Subcommittee and Sen Thad

Cochran (R-Miss) He also met with key staff from the House

and Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee

In September Dr Rich met with House L-HHS-ED

Appropriations Subconunittee Members Nita Lowey (Dshy

NY) Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Dan Miller (R-Fl) John

Peterson (R-Penn) Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Anne Northup

(R-Ky) Steny Hoyer (D-Md) and Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Ill)

When the fiscal year began without passage of an appropriashy

tion for NIH Dr Rich continued meetings with congressionshy

al leaders meeting on October 30 with House L-HHS-ED

Chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) and Ranking Democrat David

Obey (D-Wisc) to discuss NIH appropriations

During the fall FASEB continued its efforts to increase fedshy

eral funding for biomedical and other life science research

which included a guest editorial by Dr Rich in the November

19 issue of Chemical and Eligineenilg News

FASEB held its annual Federal Funding Consensus

Conference on December 3-5 to review federal science proshy

grams and to make recommendations for FY2003 FASEB

President Robert Rich chaired the conference and Rita

Colwell Director of NSF was the keynote speaker On

December 4 Dr Kirschstein and Mike Stephens of the

House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee addressed

the conference in a plenary session

FASEB President Robert R Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum with Rita Colwell

BIOTERRORISM

On November 8 FASEB President Rich met with National

Academy of Sciences (NAS) Executive Director William

Colglazier and other senior academy staff to discuss NAS inishy

tiatives for combating terrorism and how the broader scientifshy

ic community could contribute to the effort On December

14 Dr Rich chaired a session on scientific information and

9

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

materials at an NAS symposium Balancing National Security

and Open Scientific Communication Implications of

September 11 th for the Research Community FASEB scishy

ence policy analyst Heather Rieff and FASEB Vice President

for Science Policy Bettie Sue Masters wrote an editorial

Science and the Fight Against Bioterrorism that appeared in

the January 2002 issue of The FASEB Journal

PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS

In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix met with Senator

Harkins legislative assistant to discuss strategies to implement

the Physician-Scientist Repayment Program FASEB Board

members Tim Ley and David Kaufman met with acting NIH

Director Ruth Kirschstein NIH Institute Directors Marvin

Cassman Stephen Katz and Claude Lenfant and key congresshy

sional staff in a series of meetings on March 8 to advance

FASEBs proposal for a phys ician-scientist loan repayment

program In July Dr Rich met with NIGMS Director Marvin

Cassman to discuss physician-scientist loan repayment and

other training issues

_-r

~~

- FASEB Past President Mary Hendrix testishyfies in support of federal funding for stem cell research

STEM CELLS

In June FASEB reaffirmed its suppOrt for research on human

embryonic stem cells endorsing the NIH draft guidelines for

stem cell research and applauding the agency for its forwardshy

looking stance on this issue Dr Hendrix testified before the

Senate L-HHS-ED Appropriations Committee onJuly 17 and

urged lawmakers to allow federal funding of human embryshy

onic stem cell research She told the Senate panel that public

funding will promote access to research results and expedite

progress toward cures In August when President George W

Bush announced his decision to allow federal funding for

embryonic stem cell research Dr Rich issued a statement

commending the presidential action and held a press confershy

ence to discuss the other policy actions that were still needed

to expedite progress in this area of research His views on

stem cell research were the subject of a National Public Radio

interview broadcast on August 11 Later in August Drs Rich

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

10

Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

11

SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

and Hendrix met with NIH officials as well as congressional

staff to discuss the implementation of President Bushs polishy

cy and the potential establishment of a stem cell repository

HUMAN CLONING In March FASEB President Mary Hendrix wrote a letter to

House Commerce Committee Chairman Jim Greenwood (Rshy

Penn ) presenting FASEBs position on human cloning and

other related research issues In July the Federation approved

a statement on supporting legislation that bans reproductive

human cloning FASEB strongly urged however that such

legislation allow the use of human somatic cell nuclear transshy

fer technology to produce molecules cells and tissues for

research and therapeutic use FASEB President-Elect Steven

L Teitelbaum also published an editorial in the St Lotis Post

Dispatch on December 3 explaining the difference between the

cloning of a human being (which FASEB opposes) and

research using somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce stem

cells (which FASEB supportS)

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION In April Dr Hendrix delivered the keynote speech to the

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Her remarks

Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education described

FASEB positions and policies on graduate education in the

biomedical sciences The Science Policy Committees Training

and Career Resources Subcommittee initiated a series of

examinations that studied the conditions affec ting graduate

students and postdocs and several members of the commitshy

tee attended the NAS Convocation on Postdoctoral Education

in March To ensure that the postdoctoral experience was conshy

ducive to professional development the subcommittee develshy

oped a definition of postdoctoral study that was subseshy

quently adopted by the Public Affairs Executive Committee

(pAEC) The subcommittee also called for higher levels of

compensation and a broad range of benefits for graduate stushy

dents and postdocs

MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY In response to concern that privacy regulations for medical

records proposed by the Department of Health and Human

Services under the Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act (HIPAA) may impede research FASEB

joined other groups in August calling on DHHS Secretary

Tommy Thompson to amend the privacy rules FASEB

President Robert Rich and President-Elect Steve Teitelbaum

met with David Korn Senior Vice President for Biomedical

Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges

(AAlvlC) in October to discuss the new medical records privashy

cy regulations and their anticipated effect on research FASEB

joined AAMC in its November 7 letter to Secretary

10

Thompson CntlClZlng the current regulations proposing

changes and asking him to reopen the medical records privashy

cy regulations for additional comment and revision

AN IMALS IN RESEARCH On January 25 FASEB (along with Americans for Medical

Progress) co-sponsored a briefing for voluntary health associshy

ations on the threat of animal rights activism In February Dr

Hendrix published a letter to the editor of Nature explaining

FASEBs position on the care of laboratory animals Science

also published a letter from Howard Garrison exposing the

flaws in an opinion poll conducted by animal rights advocates

In March Dr Hendrix presented FASEBs position on animal

research issues at the annual Public Responsibility in Medicine

and Research (PRMampR) meeting and on May 25 Presidentshy

Elect Rich spoke on regulatory issues affecting animal research

at a meeting sponsored by AAAS

Throughout the yea r FASEB collaborated with staff and leadshy

ership of the FASEB Societies to promote policies supportive

of animal research Most significantly on a wide variety of

issues related to animal research FASEB worked closely with

Alice Raanan Public Affairs Officer for The American

Physiological Society (APS) and the APS Animal Care and

Experimentation Committee

REGULATORY BURDEN On November 8 Dr Rich met with Office of Management

and Budget Associate Director John Graham to discuss regshy

ulatory issues and their effect on research Among the issues

discussed was the proposed regulation of rats mice and birds

under the Animal Welfare Act Dr Rich also spoke about

FASEB initiatives on regulatory burden to a November 12

meeting of the National Council of University Research

Administrators Debra Aronson of the FASEB Office of

Public Affairs serves as the principal staff person for regulashy

tory issues Since September she has been coordinating

FASEB initiatives on research animals medical records privashy

cy human subjects research and genetic nondiscrimination

FASEB also submitted comments on proposed regulations for

ensuring the quality of data disseminated by Federal agencies

While supporting the goal of raising standards of data quality

FASEB believed that there were major flaws in the proposed

guidelines The Federations response was developed by

Lauren Gross Director of Public Policy and Government

Affairs for the American Association of Immunologists and

was part of a successful effort to modify provisions that were

opposed by the research community

RESEARCH INTEGRITY In January FASEB convened a meeting of representatives

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

11

SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS middot

of the research community to discuss responses to Office of

Research Integrity (ORI) regulations on instruccion in the

responsible conduct of research and whistleblowers Views

similar to those expressed at this meeting were subsequently

voiced by the House Commerce Committee in its corresponshy

dence with ORl ORl in turn delayed implementation of the

new regulations on instruction in the responsible conduct of

research In January FASEB also formally stated its opposishy

tion to the proposed ORl policy on whistleblower protection

Steve Teitelbaum met with Chris Pascal Director of the

Office of Research Integrity in July In this meeting and in

subsequent correspondence Teitelbaum expressed support

for the voluntary activities for instruction in responsible conshy

duct of research being undertaken by members of FASEB

societies He challenged ORl to document (with empirical

data) the need for mandatory bureaucratic programs and he

urged ORI to use its resources to develop educational mateshy

rials

MODULAR GRANTS

In response to numerous concerns raised by investigators the

Science PQlicy Committee (under [he direction of Vice

President for Science Policy Bettie Sue Mas[ers) began a disshy

cussion of modular grants Their efforts resulted in a series of

questions that were later shared with NIH staff and Dr

Masters was appointed to the NIH working group that will

evaluate outcomes of the modular grant process

FASEB PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM The Federations public affairs activities advance the interests

of investigators in biological and biomedical sciences and are

guided by representatives of the FASEB Societies serving on

the FASEB Board of Directors and the PAEC The Office of

Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates these activities and supports

[he policy development and research mission of [he Science

Policy Committee (SPC) the group charged with developing

proactive positions on emerging issues Current members of

these committees are listed on page 13

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE Through its monthly [eleconference the PAEC provides overshy

all guidance to the FASEB Public Affairs program The PAEC

approved the FY 2002 federal funding recommendations and

closely monitored the progress of funding legislation Chaired

by the FASEB president this committee reviewed and

endorsed policy statements on funding issues stem cell

research modular grants medical records privacy compensashy

tion for graduate students and postdocs data quality regulashy

tions financial conflict of interest and research integrity

11

SCIENCE POLICY COMMITIEE

The SPC is FASEBs think tank and is chaired by the

FASEB Vice President for Science Policy Sue P Duckles comshy

pleted her term on June 30 and Bettie Sue Masters began servshy

ing as Vice President and SPC Chairperson on July 1 Heather

Rieff OPA directs the SPC projects and serves as principal

staff person to the committee

The SPC is charged with developing long-term policies and

position statements on issues of concern to investigators in

the biomedical sciences The committee meets monthly by

teleconference with subcommittee meetings held when needshy

ed In 2001 the committee developed policy statements on

postdoctoral training and compensation human subjects proshy

tection conflict of interest regulations and the modular grant

program at NIH Other major SPC projects included publicashy

tion of two new articles in the Breakthroughs in Bioscience

series and co-sponsorship (with Americans for Medical

Progress) of a workshop for voluntary health organizations on

threats from the animal rights movement

The SPC met in person on October 10-11 to review its ongoshy

ing projects and consider new initiatives Ellie Ehrenfeld

Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review discussed

the reorganization of the Integrated Review Group with [he

committee Before discussing new initiatives the committee

heard about data resources from representatives of NIH

NSF and the Commission on Professionals in Science and

Technology Since the meeting the committee has begun new

initiatives concerning the peer review process at NIH and is

actively monitoring the effort by the NIH to evaluate the modshy

ular grants program The committee has also begun to develshy

op new public outreach materials on genetic research

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES 2001

OPA collects and analyzes data organizes consensus confershy

ences and works with [he FASEB leadership to present

FASEB policies in executive legislacive and other policymakshy

ing settings Specific areas of action include government liaishy

son policy development research communication coalition

building and public outreach

GOVERNMENT LIAISON

FASEB represents the views of biomedical scientists before

Congress federal agencies and other organizations By speakshy

ing with a single voice the FASEB societies and their memshy

bers can increase the effectiveness of their message and maxshy

imize their influence on public policy Pat White FASEBs

Director of Legislative Relacions coordinates communication

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

with congressional offices and legislative advocacy groups

provides regular updates on congressional activities related to

biomedical research and gives strategic advice on public

affairs initiatives He keeps the FASEB community informed

about legislative developments through monthly PAEC

reports weekly summaries and daily updates on late-breaking

developments In March Pat White officially opened the

FASEB Capitol Hill Office at a special reception Guests

included three former Members of Congress Bob Michel

John Porter and Paul Rogers

POLICY DEVELOPMENT OPA works with the FASEB Board of Directors PAEC and

SPC to establish FASEB positions and official statements

FlSEB committees and conferences bring together represenshy

tatives of the member societies to formulate positions on

behalf of individual inves tigators in the biomedical sciences

In addition to the annual funding consensus conference and

the face-to-face meeting of the SPC Science Policy Analyst

Heather Rieff and Dr Hendrix organized a conference on

academic-industrial relation s Government-Academicshy

Industrial Partnerships Bioethics and Genome Research

FASEB President Robert Rich chairs Federal Funding Consensus Conference

RESEARCH OPA analyzes data and conducts research in support of the

Federations policy development and advocacy activities Last

year OPA compiled information on trends in NIH research

funding Charts showing data on grant applications number of

awards funding levels and success rates were prepared and

circulated for discussion by FASEB and Society committees

In addition OPA staff published two articles

bull Howard Garrison and FASEB Board member Paul Kincade

published a paper Careers in immunology The new realishy

ty Nature Immunology Oanuary) 2001

bull Howard Garrison and former FASEB SPC member Susan

Gerbi published a paper Workforce alternatives to gradushy

ate students Science (May 25) 2001

COMMUN ICATIO N Information collected in development and support o f

FASEBs public affairs program is shared with the research

community through electronic and printed channels OPA

maintains the FASEB Public Affairs home page at

wwwfaseborgopa and publishes the FASEB NelIs six times

a year The newsletter edited by Paulette W Campbell reports

on public affairs activities of the Federation and other policy

issues of significance to biomedical scientists The Public

Affairs webpage posts official FASEB position statements and

documents related to biomedical research policy Press releasshy

es were issued on all new FASEB policy positions and advershy

tisements were placed in national and regional newspapers

thanking our champions in Congress and the administration

for their efforts to increase funding for NIH and NSF

COALITION BUILDING OPA supports FASEBs coordination with other organizations

to advance and protect the interests of biomedical scientists

These alliances help promote positions of the FASEB

Societies and their members by collaborating with other

groups sharing the same goals Major coalition partnerships in

2001 included the Campaign for Medical Research Ad Hoc

Group for Medical Research Coalition for National Science

Funding National Association for Biomedical Research

Americans for Medical Progress Commission on Professionals

in Science and Technology and ResearchAmerica

PUBLIC OUTREAC H Educating the public and its elected representatives about the

benefits of biomedical research is part of an active approach

to maintaining public support for research Dr Hendrix

addressed the subject of communicating science at an EB

2001 symposium A Call to Activism This session was

sponsored by The American Physiological Society and co shy

sponsored by FASEB American Society for Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology American Society for Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics American Society for

Investigative Pathology American Society for Nutritional

Sciences The American Association of Immunologists and

the American Association of Anatomists This year the

Breakthroughs in Bioscience subcommittee of the SPC

chaired by Fred Naider and directed by Heather Rieff of

OPA initiated innovative steps to enhance the impact and disshy

tribution of the Breakthroughs articles including a summary

of each article published in The FASEB Jotlmol (F])and the

full-text version accessible on the FJ webpage In addition two

new articles were published

bull Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing and

Treating Osteoporosis

bull Leukemia From Bench to Bedside

12

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN FASEB PU BLIC AFFAIRS ACTIVITIES

FASEB reports and positions are available on the Internet

We invite you to visit our Public Affairs webpage

wwwfaseborgopa and welcome your comments

FASEB Societies and their members are encouraged to incorshy

porate FASEB position statements in their correspondence

with elected representatives

Opinions and views on FASEB positions and other issues of

concern to bench scientists should be directed to society rep shy

resentatives of FASEBs Public Affairs Executive Committee

and Science Policy Committee

PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXEC UTIVE COMMITIEE (PAEC)

Gerald F DiBona (APS)

Bettie Sue Masters (ASBMB)

Jerry R Mitchell (ASPET)

Richard G Lynch (ASIP)

Alfred H Merrill (ASNS)

Stephen H White (Biophysical)

Gary C Schoenwolf (AAA)

George D Rose (protein)

Steven L Teitelbaum (ASBMR)

Barbara E Bierer (ASCI)

P Michael Conn (ENDO)

Garry R Cutting (ASHG)

Mary Lou King (SDB)

John A Smith (APepS)

Lynda F Bonewald (ABRF)

Robert D Koos (SSR)

John M DeSesso (Teratology)

Susan S Wallace (RRS)

James C Rose (SGI)

Peter J Stambrook (EMS)

Robert R Rich (AAI)

Mary Jc Hendrix Past President (AAA)

Sidney H Golub Exec Director (FASEB)

OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SC IEN CE POLICY COMMITIEE (SPC) William T Talman (APS)

Frederick GrinneU (ASBMB)

Mustafa F Lokhandwala (ASPET)

Carl G Becker (ASIP)

Alfred H Merrill (ASNS)

Roger A Sunde (ASNS)

Ellen Kraig (AAI)

Stephen H White (Biophysical)

David S Lester (AAA)

Tony E Hugli (prOtein)

Jane E Aubin (ASBMR)

Margaret H Baron (ASCI)

Hank Kronenberg (ENDO)

Philip Reilly (ASHG)

Margaret S Saha (SDB)

Fred R Naider (APepS)

David W Speicher (ABRF)

Rodney D Geisert (SSR)

Thomas B Knudsen (Teratology)

William A Bernhard (RRS)

JOM Grossman (SGI)

R Julian Preston (EMS)

Robert R Rich President (AAA)

Bettie Sue Masters VP for Science Policy (ASBMB)

Sidney H Golub Exec Director (FASEB)

Mary Jc Hendrix Past President

Sue P Duckles Past VP for Science Policy

Leo T Furcht Board

Paul W Kincade Board

Eric N Olson Board

David Williams Board

Chair

Non-voting

Ex officio non-voting

13

2001 AWARDS

COMMIHEE MEMBERS BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 20012002 SERIES WELLCOME VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS IN THE

Norman Iltlinman MD PhD Chair M Ian Phillips PhD DSc Sponsored and supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Howard Zalkin PhDthe Federation administered an annual Wellcome Visiting Joan Heller Brown PhDProfessorships Program In the basic medical sciences Richard G Lynch MDProfessorships were designed to stimulate interest in the discishyMichael Hambidge MD ScD plines of the FASEB Member Societies Institutions were Henry A Lester PhDstrongly encouraged to include among their nominations emishyBarry D Shur PhDnent women and minority scientists for professorships Perry A Frey PhDTwenty-eight awards went to universities and other nonprofit Jane E Aubin PhDscientific research institutions within the United States John D ivountz MD PhDVisiting professors spent up to 5 days at the host institutions John Cidlowski PhDin order to interact with students and faculty and delivered Louis J Elsas MDWellcome Lectures The Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded Marnie Halpern PhD$5000 for each Professorship The 20012002 awards conshy

cluded this series

HOST INSTITUTIONS DISCIPLINES AND WELLCOME VISITING PROFESSORS

Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine SC S1 Louis University MO Human Genetics Research Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Aravinda Chakravarti PhD Joan and Ronald Conaw ay PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine MD Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation OK

Purdue University IN University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine WI Pharmacology Immunology William A Catterall PhD Arturo Casadevall MD PhD University of Washington School of Medicine WA Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University NY

Washington State University College of Pharmacy WA North Dakota State University - College of Pharmacy ND Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Nutrition Law rence A Loeb PhD MD Maret G Traber PhD UniverSity of Washington Seattle WA Oregon State University OR

Universidad Central del Caribe Sch of Medicine Puerto Rico University of Washington shyBiophysics Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Anatoli N Lopatin PhD Leslie A Leinwand PhD University of Michigan MI University of Boulder CO

University of Miami School of Medicine FL Iowa State University - Nutritional Sciences Council IA Immunology Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Irving Weissman MD Helmut Sies MD PhD (honorary) Stanford University School of Medicine CA University of Dusseldorf Germany

Rutgers University NJ Morehouse School of Medicine GA Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics Nutrition Eric J Westhof PhD Alan Jackson MABChir MD FRCP Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS Universite Louis Pasteur France

Texas AampM University College of Veterinary Medicine TX University of Michigan-Dearborn MI Human Genetics Research Physiology Elaine A Ostrander PhD Ralph M Garruto PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center WA State University of New York at Binghamton and Syracuse NY

University of Georgia College of Family amp Consumer Sci GA Oregon State University OR Nutrition Physiology Charles J Billington MD Frances M Ashcroft ScD PhD Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center MN Trinity College Oxford United Kingdom

Medical College of Wisconsin WI East Carolina University Brody Medical School NC Cell Biology Cell Biology Donald A Fischman MD David A Williams MD Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY Indiana University School of Medicine IN

School of Medicine WA

Southhampton General Hospital University of Southampton UK

14

2001 AWARDS

New York University School of Medicine NY EXCELLENCE IN SC IENCE AWARD Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jose M e Riberio MD PhD Laurie H Glimcher MD was selected to receive NIHNIAID MD

the 2001 FASEB Excellence in Science Award ~-Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine OH Dr Glimcher is the Irene Heinz Given lt~ Physiology Professor of Immunology and Professor of

Susan A Taylor PhD Meclicine Harvard Meclical School She presentshyHoward Huges Medical Institute University of California

San Diego CA ed her lecture T Helper Cells Genes and

Development at the Experimental Biology ~ ~Baylor College of Medicine TX Biophysics Meeting in Orlando Florida on April 2 200l bull Richard Crowther PhD

Dr Glimcher is a clistinguished physician-scien-Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology United Kingdom tist who has made enormous seminal and critical

contributions to the areas of Major HistocompatibilityWright State University School of Medicine OH Physiology Complex (MHC) Class II proteins and the regulation and Debra I Diz PhD function of the cytokine genes especially as they relate to T Wake Forest University NC

cell helper clifferentiation and lineage commitments accordshy

University of Minnesota Duluth School of Medicine MN ing to Raif S Geha MD her nominator and colleague Dr Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Glimcher is an important force and a great role model for Dean P Jones PhD Emory University School of Medicine GA women in immunology and in science in general Her contrishy

butions to science are not restricted to the bench In adclition University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine TX

she has been an importan t driver in the effort to organize a Endocrinology and Metabolism Jan-Ake Gustafsson PhD MD center to investigate islet cell transplantation in diabetes and Huddinge University Hospital Karolinska Institute Sweden has been an important player in the NIH-sponsored clinical

research initiative on tolerance induction in autoimmune disshyUniversity of Colorado at Boulder CO Biochemistry and Molecular Biology eases The $10000 award funded by Eli Lilly and Company Xiao-dong Wang PhD

recognizes outstanding achievement by women in biomeclical University of Texas Southwestern TX

science Dr Glimcher is a member of The American Harvard Medical School of Harvard University MA Association of Immunologists and the American Society ofImmunology Mitchell Kronenberg PhD Clinical Investigation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology CA

EXC ELLENCE IN SCIENCEUniversity of California Medical School-Los Angeles CA Pathology AWARD COM MITIEE Michael A Farrell MB Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Joan W Conaway PhD Chair

Susan M Barman PhD University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC

Suzanne G Laychock PhDEndocrinology and Metabolism Barbara B Kahn MD Nancy L Thompson PhD Harvard Medical School MA A Catherine Ross PhD

Paula Kavathas PhD

Eve E Marder PhD

Ophelia 1 Weeks PhD GREGORY PIN CUS MEMORIAL AWARD

In 1974 Mrs Gregory Pincus established a memorial fund in Linda Randall PhD

the Federation in honor of her late husband a distinguished Stephen Marx MD

reproductive physiologist and co-discoverer with Dr MC BB Weksler MDChang of the oral contraceptive Upon her death in 1988 she Neena B Schwartz PhD

bequeathed adclitional monies to the fund Each year the Kurt Hirschhorn MDPresident of FASEB selects a student to receive income from Marnie Halpern PhD

the fund to help defray expenses for travel to a scientific meetshy

ing of his or her choice Dr Mary J C Hendrix President of

FASEB named Dr Ya-Xiong Tao of d1e Department of

Physiology and Biophysics The University of Iowa as the

recipient for the 2001 Pincus Award Dr Tao chose to attend

the 83rd Endocrine Society meeting in Denver Colorado

bull - 1

15

I OFFICE OF PUBLICATIONS Nancy J Rodnan Director I

he Office of Publications a department of FASEB is

responsible for the primary publishing activities of

the Federation along with publication services for

client societies Our main publishing activities are The

FASEB Jotlmal and the FASEB Directory of Members-both

online and in print Publication services include managing the

editing and production of the JOtlrnal of Leukoc)te Biology (JLB) and numerous abstracts and programs of various scientific

societies both within and outside the FASEB community This

department also provides marketing services and advertising

sales management for 29 print periodicals scientific meeting

programs and abstracts the FASEB Directory of lviembers and

25 electronic publications

In addition to servicing FASEBs Member Societies the

department routinely contributes surplus operating funds to

support the Federations broader public affairs mission To

that end we realized a surplus of $483000 $203000 over

budget on total revenues of $2702000

PUBLISHING TJr FASE B JOlll llr

hltV wwtascbj org

The FJ Express (FJE) method of publishing scientific findings

which was introduced in July 2000 has been widely accepted

by the scientific community These peer-reviewed manuscripts

are available online within weeks of acceptance A companion

three-page summary describing the principal findings follows

in print two months later There has been an almost equal disshy

tribution of manuscripts between FJE and the print version

The editorial office has completely eliminated all manuscripts

in backlog by using both methods of publishing This allows

the editorial office to complete the review and revision process

in less than two months

Other methods to streamline and support the editorial proshy

duction process were reviewed in 2001 The HighWire

Benchgt Press manuscript tracking and submission system was

selected for implementation in 2002 A review of the editorial

workflow brought to the Executive Directors attention the

need to support the extensive duties of the Editor-in-Chief

Vincent T Marchesi will PhD In 2001 Dr Marchesi

reviewed and appointed three associate editors-Edward J Goetal Yusuf A Hannun and Joseph A Madri-who will

begin their term in 2002

Tbe FASEB JOtlrnal participated in the Soros Foundations eIFL

(Electronic Information for Libraries) Science and Technology

e-Journals project The project provides high quality science

and technology e-journaJs at an affordable and sustainable

16

price to countries of the Soros Foundation Network and the

elFL Network Along with this agreement The FASEB JOtlrnal

offers free access to all online issues after one year and instishy

tuted a pay-per-view option for non-subscribers wanting

access to specific articles

The Office of Publications in coordination with the Office of

Public Affairs published the first Breakthroughs in Bioscience

article Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing

and Treating Osteoporosis in The FASEB JOtlmal This article

will receive a wider audience by publishing in The FASEB

Journal

The loss in print subscriptions continues at a slower rate while

online subscription opportunities improve Expected revenue

for online and print subscriptions exceeded budget

JJSE B Dir(d~) if iIIclll1J

hup 12l71270 faseb dir

The FASEB Directory of Members is the most up-to-date online

directory the Publications Department has produced thanks

to our Member Societies Using submissions generated by indishy

vidual members staff continuously update the online directoshy

ry assuring users of the most current information available

The 2002 FASEB Directo1J of Members which is produced in

2001 introduced a foldout key for easy referencing There are

59556 members listed in the 2002 directory encompassing the

14 FASEB Member Societies and 4 Associate Member

Societies

FASEB continues to be financially responsible for keeping the

directorys database up to date and Societies that choose to

purchase the directory for their members are charged only for

printing distribution and management

REDACTORY

Redactory services performed by the Office of Publications

include publication management for the Jotlrnal of Lettkoryte

Biology electronic and print Also under redactory services are

abstract and program volumes for scientific meetings sponshy

sored by FASEB (Experimental Biology) the Society for

Neuroscience Protein and European Protein meeting

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities and World

Congress of Pharmacology

In 2001 ]LB changed online publishers to HighWire Press

The Office of Publications was instrumental in negotiations

with HighWire and the journals editorial staff The implemenshy

tation of eJournal Press a submission and tracking system

selected for JLB has proved to be highly successful for the

entire editorial and production process

2001 AWARDS

New York University School of Medicine NY EXCELLENCE IN SC IENCE AWARD Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jose M e Riberio MD PhD Laurie H Glimcher MD was selected to receive NIHNIAID MD

the 2001 FASEB Excellence in Science Award ~-Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine OH Dr Glimcher is the Irene Heinz Given lt~ Physiology Professor of Immunology and Professor of

Susan A Taylor PhD Meclicine Harvard Meclical School She presentshyHoward Huges Medical Institute University of California

San Diego CA ed her lecture T Helper Cells Genes and

Development at the Experimental Biology ~ ~Baylor College of Medicine TX Biophysics Meeting in Orlando Florida on April 2 200l bull Richard Crowther PhD

Dr Glimcher is a clistinguished physician-scien-Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology United Kingdom tist who has made enormous seminal and critical

contributions to the areas of Major HistocompatibilityWright State University School of Medicine OH Physiology Complex (MHC) Class II proteins and the regulation and Debra I Diz PhD function of the cytokine genes especially as they relate to T Wake Forest University NC

cell helper clifferentiation and lineage commitments accordshy

University of Minnesota Duluth School of Medicine MN ing to Raif S Geha MD her nominator and colleague Dr Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Glimcher is an important force and a great role model for Dean P Jones PhD Emory University School of Medicine GA women in immunology and in science in general Her contrishy

butions to science are not restricted to the bench In adclition University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine TX

she has been an importan t driver in the effort to organize a Endocrinology and Metabolism Jan-Ake Gustafsson PhD MD center to investigate islet cell transplantation in diabetes and Huddinge University Hospital Karolinska Institute Sweden has been an important player in the NIH-sponsored clinical

research initiative on tolerance induction in autoimmune disshyUniversity of Colorado at Boulder CO Biochemistry and Molecular Biology eases The $10000 award funded by Eli Lilly and Company Xiao-dong Wang PhD

recognizes outstanding achievement by women in biomeclical University of Texas Southwestern TX

science Dr Glimcher is a member of The American Harvard Medical School of Harvard University MA Association of Immunologists and the American Society ofImmunology Mitchell Kronenberg PhD Clinical Investigation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology CA

EXC ELLENCE IN SCIENCEUniversity of California Medical School-Los Angeles CA Pathology AWARD COM MITIEE Michael A Farrell MB Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Joan W Conaway PhD Chair

Susan M Barman PhD University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC

Suzanne G Laychock PhDEndocrinology and Metabolism Barbara B Kahn MD Nancy L Thompson PhD Harvard Medical School MA A Catherine Ross PhD

Paula Kavathas PhD

Eve E Marder PhD

Ophelia 1 Weeks PhD GREGORY PIN CUS MEMORIAL AWARD

In 1974 Mrs Gregory Pincus established a memorial fund in Linda Randall PhD

the Federation in honor of her late husband a distinguished Stephen Marx MD

reproductive physiologist and co-discoverer with Dr MC BB Weksler MDChang of the oral contraceptive Upon her death in 1988 she Neena B Schwartz PhD

bequeathed adclitional monies to the fund Each year the Kurt Hirschhorn MDPresident of FASEB selects a student to receive income from Marnie Halpern PhD

the fund to help defray expenses for travel to a scientific meetshy

ing of his or her choice Dr Mary J C Hendrix President of

FASEB named Dr Ya-Xiong Tao of d1e Department of

Physiology and Biophysics The University of Iowa as the

recipient for the 2001 Pincus Award Dr Tao chose to attend

the 83rd Endocrine Society meeting in Denver Colorado

bull - 1

15

I OFFICE OF PUBLICATIONS Nancy J Rodnan Director I

he Office of Publications a department of FASEB is

responsible for the primary publishing activities of

the Federation along with publication services for

client societies Our main publishing activities are The

FASEB Jotlmal and the FASEB Directory of Members-both

online and in print Publication services include managing the

editing and production of the JOtlrnal of Leukoc)te Biology (JLB) and numerous abstracts and programs of various scientific

societies both within and outside the FASEB community This

department also provides marketing services and advertising

sales management for 29 print periodicals scientific meeting

programs and abstracts the FASEB Directory of lviembers and

25 electronic publications

In addition to servicing FASEBs Member Societies the

department routinely contributes surplus operating funds to

support the Federations broader public affairs mission To

that end we realized a surplus of $483000 $203000 over

budget on total revenues of $2702000

PUBLISHING TJr FASE B JOlll llr

hltV wwtascbj org

The FJ Express (FJE) method of publishing scientific findings

which was introduced in July 2000 has been widely accepted

by the scientific community These peer-reviewed manuscripts

are available online within weeks of acceptance A companion

three-page summary describing the principal findings follows

in print two months later There has been an almost equal disshy

tribution of manuscripts between FJE and the print version

The editorial office has completely eliminated all manuscripts

in backlog by using both methods of publishing This allows

the editorial office to complete the review and revision process

in less than two months

Other methods to streamline and support the editorial proshy

duction process were reviewed in 2001 The HighWire

Benchgt Press manuscript tracking and submission system was

selected for implementation in 2002 A review of the editorial

workflow brought to the Executive Directors attention the

need to support the extensive duties of the Editor-in-Chief

Vincent T Marchesi will PhD In 2001 Dr Marchesi

reviewed and appointed three associate editors-Edward J Goetal Yusuf A Hannun and Joseph A Madri-who will

begin their term in 2002

Tbe FASEB JOtlrnal participated in the Soros Foundations eIFL

(Electronic Information for Libraries) Science and Technology

e-Journals project The project provides high quality science

and technology e-journaJs at an affordable and sustainable

16

price to countries of the Soros Foundation Network and the

elFL Network Along with this agreement The FASEB JOtlrnal

offers free access to all online issues after one year and instishy

tuted a pay-per-view option for non-subscribers wanting

access to specific articles

The Office of Publications in coordination with the Office of

Public Affairs published the first Breakthroughs in Bioscience

article Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing

and Treating Osteoporosis in The FASEB JOtlmal This article

will receive a wider audience by publishing in The FASEB

Journal

The loss in print subscriptions continues at a slower rate while

online subscription opportunities improve Expected revenue

for online and print subscriptions exceeded budget

JJSE B Dir(d~) if iIIclll1J

hup 12l71270 faseb dir

The FASEB Directory of Members is the most up-to-date online

directory the Publications Department has produced thanks

to our Member Societies Using submissions generated by indishy

vidual members staff continuously update the online directoshy

ry assuring users of the most current information available

The 2002 FASEB Directo1J of Members which is produced in

2001 introduced a foldout key for easy referencing There are

59556 members listed in the 2002 directory encompassing the

14 FASEB Member Societies and 4 Associate Member

Societies

FASEB continues to be financially responsible for keeping the

directorys database up to date and Societies that choose to

purchase the directory for their members are charged only for

printing distribution and management

REDACTORY

Redactory services performed by the Office of Publications

include publication management for the Jotlrnal of Lettkoryte

Biology electronic and print Also under redactory services are

abstract and program volumes for scientific meetings sponshy

sored by FASEB (Experimental Biology) the Society for

Neuroscience Protein and European Protein meeting

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities and World

Congress of Pharmacology

In 2001 ]LB changed online publishers to HighWire Press

The Office of Publications was instrumental in negotiations

with HighWire and the journals editorial staff The implemenshy

tation of eJournal Press a submission and tracking system

selected for JLB has proved to be highly successful for the

entire editorial and production process

I OFFICE OF PUBLICATIONS Nancy J Rodnan Director I

he Office of Publications a department of FASEB is

responsible for the primary publishing activities of

the Federation along with publication services for

client societies Our main publishing activities are The

FASEB Jotlmal and the FASEB Directory of Members-both

online and in print Publication services include managing the

editing and production of the JOtlrnal of Leukoc)te Biology (JLB) and numerous abstracts and programs of various scientific

societies both within and outside the FASEB community This

department also provides marketing services and advertising

sales management for 29 print periodicals scientific meeting

programs and abstracts the FASEB Directory of lviembers and

25 electronic publications

In addition to servicing FASEBs Member Societies the

department routinely contributes surplus operating funds to

support the Federations broader public affairs mission To

that end we realized a surplus of $483000 $203000 over

budget on total revenues of $2702000

PUBLISHING TJr FASE B JOlll llr

hltV wwtascbj org

The FJ Express (FJE) method of publishing scientific findings

which was introduced in July 2000 has been widely accepted

by the scientific community These peer-reviewed manuscripts

are available online within weeks of acceptance A companion

three-page summary describing the principal findings follows

in print two months later There has been an almost equal disshy

tribution of manuscripts between FJE and the print version

The editorial office has completely eliminated all manuscripts

in backlog by using both methods of publishing This allows

the editorial office to complete the review and revision process

in less than two months

Other methods to streamline and support the editorial proshy

duction process were reviewed in 2001 The HighWire

Benchgt Press manuscript tracking and submission system was

selected for implementation in 2002 A review of the editorial

workflow brought to the Executive Directors attention the

need to support the extensive duties of the Editor-in-Chief

Vincent T Marchesi will PhD In 2001 Dr Marchesi

reviewed and appointed three associate editors-Edward J Goetal Yusuf A Hannun and Joseph A Madri-who will

begin their term in 2002

Tbe FASEB JOtlrnal participated in the Soros Foundations eIFL

(Electronic Information for Libraries) Science and Technology

e-Journals project The project provides high quality science

and technology e-journaJs at an affordable and sustainable

16

price to countries of the Soros Foundation Network and the

elFL Network Along with this agreement The FASEB JOtlrnal

offers free access to all online issues after one year and instishy

tuted a pay-per-view option for non-subscribers wanting

access to specific articles

The Office of Publications in coordination with the Office of

Public Affairs published the first Breakthroughs in Bioscience

article Bone Builders The Discoveries Behind Preventing

and Treating Osteoporosis in The FASEB JOtlmal This article

will receive a wider audience by publishing in The FASEB

Journal

The loss in print subscriptions continues at a slower rate while

online subscription opportunities improve Expected revenue

for online and print subscriptions exceeded budget

JJSE B Dir(d~) if iIIclll1J

hup 12l71270 faseb dir

The FASEB Directory of Members is the most up-to-date online

directory the Publications Department has produced thanks

to our Member Societies Using submissions generated by indishy

vidual members staff continuously update the online directoshy

ry assuring users of the most current information available

The 2002 FASEB Directo1J of Members which is produced in

2001 introduced a foldout key for easy referencing There are

59556 members listed in the 2002 directory encompassing the

14 FASEB Member Societies and 4 Associate Member

Societies

FASEB continues to be financially responsible for keeping the

directorys database up to date and Societies that choose to

purchase the directory for their members are charged only for

printing distribution and management

REDACTORY

Redactory services performed by the Office of Publications

include publication management for the Jotlrnal of Lettkoryte

Biology electronic and print Also under redactory services are

abstract and program volumes for scientific meetings sponshy

sored by FASEB (Experimental Biology) the Society for

Neuroscience Protein and European Protein meeting

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities and World

Congress of Pharmacology

In 2001 ]LB changed online publishers to HighWire Press

The Office of Publications was instrumental in negotiations

with HighWire and the journals editorial staff The implemenshy

tation of eJournal Press a submission and tracking system

selected for JLB has proved to be highly successful for the

entire editorial and production process

Finally the Office of Publications oversees the production of

FASEBs Annual Report Staff members select the design

cull and edit material submitted by the Federations departshy

ments and manage the printing and production process

FASEB AD NET The economic downturn and the events of September 11 had

a negative effect on AdNet in 2001 After several years of

exceeding the budget AdNets revenue total was $265500

More than 4545 pages of advertising were sold in the publishy

cations of our clients Gross billings for AdNet in 2001

exceeded $792580 two-thirds of which was returned to

clients to help defray the cost of their publishing programs

Although overall advertising pages and gross billings increased

from 2000 AdNet represented 5 more publications in 2001

In addition to print and online journals AdNet handled the

meeting program and abstract advertising for Experimental

Biology 2001 and the 2002 FASEB Directory of Members

The meeting program contained over 2775 advertising pages

and the directory contained 1475 advertising pages

In the summer of 2001 the American Society of Biochemshy

istry and Molecular Biology contracted with AdNet for 2002

advertising representation for their new publications MokCtlklr

amp Cellulm- Proteomics and Biochemistry and j1olecular Biology

Educatiol1

Publications represented by AdNet in 2001 included

The FASEB joumal

FASEBNeJlls

The joumal of Biological Chemistry

Tbe journal of Nutrition

Tbe American joumal of Clinical Nutrition

joumalof Letlkoc)te Biology

jotlmalof Lipid Researcb

The American Physiological Society Publications

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental

Therapeutics Publications

2002 FASEB Directol) of Members

Experimental Biology 2001 Meeting Program

FASE B MARKETING For the third year in a row this segment of the Office of

Publications effort was maintained as a break-even activity A

reduction in new member mailing efforts resulted in an SllK

positive income Royalty revenue continues to decline with the

total from Seabury and Smith member insurance plans and

MBNA credit card program at about S22K against a budget

of $38K

--------11 OFFICE OF PUBLICATIONS I

PU BLICATIONS AN D COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

Donald E McMillan Chair

Pamela J Gunter-Smith

Alan G Goodridge

Sandra R_ Wolman

Susan S Percival

Eleanor S Metcalf

Suse B Broyde

Donald A Fisclunan

Mark A Hermondson

Marc K Drexner

Stephen J Weiss

Marc Freeman

Peter H Byers

Thomas D Sargent

17

OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES

I Geri Swindle Director I

he FASEB Office of Scientific Meetings and

Conferences (OSMC) managed 10 meetings and 31

conferences in 2001 The services included site selecshy

tion facility arrangements personnel and equipment

arrangements exhibit management promotion hospitality

assistance with abstract processing and programming registrashy

tion processing and CME credits OSMC was also reaccreditshy

ed by the ACCME to provide CME for the next four years

The table below shows the attendance number of abstracts

programmed and the number of exhibit booths sold for the

meetings managed by this department

2001 MEETINGS MANAGED BY THE OFFICE OF SCIENTI FIC MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

SCIENTIFIC TOTAL PROGRAMMED EXHIBIT REGISTRATION REGISTRATION ABSTRACTS BOOTHS

ABRF 737 1113 146 103 February 24-27 San Diego CA

Biophysical Society 3804 4692 2926 February 17-21 Boston MA

Experimental Biology 11028 12876 6977 526 March 31 - April 4 Orlando FL

4th European Symposium of the Protein Society

628 686 423 29

April 18-22 Paris FraDce ARVO April 29 - May 4 Ft Lauderdale FL

7835 8429 5061 107

Protein Society 849 1122 525 July 28-August 1 Philadelphia PA

APS Conference 124 130 60 NA October 10-14 Banff Alberta Canada

ASHG 4314 5885 2939 October 17-20 San Diego CA

APS Conference 147 150 75 NA October 12-16 Pittsburgh PA

ASCB 5932 8212 3069 December 8-12 Washington DC

18

116

66

298

450

OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES

Resort and Spa Arizona June 9 - August 9 and five were at SUMM ER RESEARCH CON FERENCES the Big Mountain Resort in Whitefish Montana June 2 - July

The 20th year of the FASEB Summer Research Conferences 12 Total attendance for the conferences was 3391 with an

(SRC) consisted of 31 conferences Ten conferences were held average of 110 persons per conference Twenty-eight percent

at the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River June 16 - August of the participants were from foreign countries

23 eight were at Snowmass Village Colorado June 30 shy

August 23 eight were at the Omni Tucson National Golf

2001 SUM MER RESEARCH CONFERE NCES

SAXTONS RIVER VERMONT June 16-21 Renal Microcirculatory Hemodynamics Molecular Cellular Physiologic Clinical amp

Integrative Mechanisms

June 23-28 Ubiquitin and Intracellular Protein Degradation

June 28-July 3 Autoimmunity

July 7-12 Helicases Structure Function and Roles in Human Disease

July 14-19 Prokaryotic Transcription Initiation

July 21-26 Biological Methylation

July 28-August 2 Ciliate Molecular Biology

August 4-9 Vitamin K amp the Synthesis Structure amp Function of Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins

August 11-16 Nuclear Structure and Cancer

August 18-23 Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation by Dietary Constituents

SNOWMASS COLORADO June 30-July 5 Glucose Transporter Biology

July 7-12 Chromatin amp Transcription

July 14-19 Transport ATPases From Genomics to Mechanism

July 21-26 Genetic Recombination amp Chromosome Rearrangements

July 28-August 2 Hematological Malignancies

August 4-9 Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Mitogenesis Morphogenesis amp Tumorigenesis

August 11-16 Protein Kinases

August 18-23 Advances in Obesity-From the Environment to the Gene

TUCSON ARIZONA June 9-16 Lysophospholipids and Related Bioactive Lipids in Biology amp Diseases

June 16-21 Physiological Functions of Antioxidant Nutrients amp Phytochemicals

June 23-28 The Biology and Chemistry of Vision

July 7-12 The TGF-B Superfamily Signaling amp Development

July 14-19 Muscle Satellite and Stem Cells

July 21-26 New Perspectives in Transporter Biology

July 28 - August 2 Phospholipase D

August 4-9 Commonalities amp Differences in the Mechanisms of Alcohol amp Other Drugs of Abuse

WHITEFISH MONTANA June 2-7 Micronutrients Trace Elements

June 9-14 Thrombin and Vascular Medicine

June 23-28 Steroids and Bone

June 30-July 5 The Calpain Gene Family in Health and Disease

July 7-12 Gastrointestinal Tract IX Mechanisms of Disease amp Protection

rl

-I OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES I

STAFF Geri Swindle Director OSMC

Julie Levin Manager SRC

FASEB SUM MER RE SEARCH CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Claude B KJee Protein Society Chair

Eda T Bloom AAI

Eric P Brass ASPET

Arthur E Broadus ASBMR

Barbara Brodsky Biophysical

Mark W Chapleau APS

Chi Van Dang ASCI

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann ENDO

Bronya Keats ASHG

Bo Lonnerdal ASNS

Cal Roskelley ASCB

William L Taylor ASBMB

Thea Tlsty ASIP

Robert J Tomanek AAA

Mary Jc Hendrix FASEB President

Sidney H Golub FASEB Executive Director

20

CAREER RESOURCES amp MARC

Jacquelyn Roberts Manager amp Associate Program Director

CAREER RESOURCES In 2001 the FASEB Career Resources Office reached the fiveshy

year milestone with CAREERS OnLine DaaNel Semices at

https ns2faseborg careerweb The website provides intershy

active advance registration for the FASEB Career Resources

CenterPlacement Service at related scientific meetings and a

year-round online employment search-and-referral database

for employers and applicants Since its January 1997 debut the

CAREERS OnLine CLASSIFIED weekly newsletter has been

well received in the recruitment advertising area The online

newsletter accounts for 70-75 of the Career Resources webshy

site activity It is posted every Wednesday at

httpsns2faseborgcareerwebClassifiedMainasp

Another successful Career Resources activity in 2001 was the

CAREERS OnLine Employer SearchNet TotoAccess Subscription

Services This service provides employers with total access to

the applicants complete profiles (including contact informashy

tion) listed in the CAREERS OnLine Appicant DalaNe The

usefulness and success of the CAREERS OnLine DataNel

Services continues to be reflected in the number of visits and

page requests which average approximately 69000-70000 per

month

The meeting-related career services (FASEB Career Resources

Center Placement Service) provide a user-friendly internetshy

based system to facilitate employer and applicant advance regshy

istration The on-site Placement Service features a computershy

assis ted system to help facilitate employer search-and-referral

of applicants interview scheduling and message notification

services In addition career development seminars and cover

letter resume critique workshops are provided as a feature of

the on-site Placement Service In 2001 we provided on-site

career services for the Experimental Biology 2001 (April)

American Thoracic Society International Conference 2001

(May) and the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

(November)

MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) PROGRAM S

The Minority Access to Research Careers (i1ARC) program

was created by the National Institute of General Medical

Sciences to increase the number of biomedical scientists from

minority groups The MARC program encourages minority

students in their pursuit of graduate training leading to the

PhD degree in the biomedical sciences

FASEB has supported the training of minority scientists for

the past 20 years through two IvARC grants that involve a varishy

ety of programs

bull Visiting Scientists for Minority Institutions program

bull Scholarships for minority scientis ts to attend FASEB society

scientific meetings and conferences

Scholarships for minority scientists to attend FASEB

Summer Research Conferences

bull Travel and subsistence awards for student summer research

opportunities at research universities and institutions

bull FASEB MARC activities and InfoNet on the FASEB

Internet web site located at httpsns2faseborgmarc

bull In conjunction with the American Association of Anat

omists (AAA) co-sponsor a Minority Students Program

and luncheon held during Experimental Biology 2001

designed to help motivate and encourage students to pursue

advanced degrees and research careers in the life science

bull Develops and hosts two grantsmanship training seminar pro

grams for principal investigators and research scientists in

Tucson Arizona These programs train research scientists in

the techniques necessary to develop their skills ideas and

research into successful grant applications

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Institutions Grantsmanship

Training seminar programs For the year 2001 program

were held at Savannah State University University of Texa

Pan-American University and the University of Texas a

San Antonio

bull Scholarships for minority scientists to participate in the

FASEB Grantsmanship Training seminars (established in

June 2000)

FASEB MARC Progra ms 2001 Activity Report

bull Visiting Scientist to Minority Institutions Travel Awards-7

visits

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Insti tutions Grantsmanship

Seminars-3 seminars

bull Scientific Meetings Travel Awards-58 (17 faculty 17 Stu

dents 24 posters)

bull Grantsmanship Training Seminars Travel Awards-26 scien

tists travel awards

bull Summer Research Conferences Travel Awards-28 faculty

travel awards

bull Summer Research Opportunity Program Travel Awards--49

student travel awards

21

OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES

I Geri Swindle Director I

he FASEB Office of Scientific Meetings and

Conferences (OSMC) managed 10 meetings and 31

conferences in 2001 The services included site selecshy

tion facility arrangements personnel and equipment

arrangements exhibit management promotion hospitality

assistance with abstract processing and programming registrashy

tion processing and CME credits OSMC was also reaccreditshy

ed by the ACCME to provide CME for the next four years

The table below shows the attendance number of abstracts

programmed and the number of exhibit booths sold for the

meetings managed by this department

2001 MEETINGS MANAGED BY THE OFFICE OF SCIENTI FIC MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

SCIENTIFIC TOTAL PROGRAMMED EXHIBIT REGISTRATION REGISTRATION ABSTRACTS BOOTHS

ABRF 737 1113 146 103 February 24-27 San Diego CA

Biophysical Society 3804 4692 2926 February 17-21 Boston MA

Experimental Biology 11028 12876 6977 526 March 31 - April 4 Orlando FL

4th European Symposium of the Protein Society

628 686 423 29

April 18-22 Paris FraDce ARVO April 29 - May 4 Ft Lauderdale FL

7835 8429 5061 107

Protein Society 849 1122 525 July 28-August 1 Philadelphia PA

APS Conference 124 130 60 NA October 10-14 Banff Alberta Canada

ASHG 4314 5885 2939 October 17-20 San Diego CA

APS Conference 147 150 75 NA October 12-16 Pittsburgh PA

ASCB 5932 8212 3069 December 8-12 Washington DC

18

116

66

298

450

OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES

Resort and Spa Arizona June 9 - August 9 and five were at SUMM ER RESEARCH CON FERENCES the Big Mountain Resort in Whitefish Montana June 2 - July

The 20th year of the FASEB Summer Research Conferences 12 Total attendance for the conferences was 3391 with an

(SRC) consisted of 31 conferences Ten conferences were held average of 110 persons per conference Twenty-eight percent

at the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River June 16 - August of the participants were from foreign countries

23 eight were at Snowmass Village Colorado June 30 shy

August 23 eight were at the Omni Tucson National Golf

2001 SUM MER RESEARCH CONFERE NCES

SAXTONS RIVER VERMONT June 16-21 Renal Microcirculatory Hemodynamics Molecular Cellular Physiologic Clinical amp

Integrative Mechanisms

June 23-28 Ubiquitin and Intracellular Protein Degradation

June 28-July 3 Autoimmunity

July 7-12 Helicases Structure Function and Roles in Human Disease

July 14-19 Prokaryotic Transcription Initiation

July 21-26 Biological Methylation

July 28-August 2 Ciliate Molecular Biology

August 4-9 Vitamin K amp the Synthesis Structure amp Function of Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins

August 11-16 Nuclear Structure and Cancer

August 18-23 Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation by Dietary Constituents

SNOWMASS COLORADO June 30-July 5 Glucose Transporter Biology

July 7-12 Chromatin amp Transcription

July 14-19 Transport ATPases From Genomics to Mechanism

July 21-26 Genetic Recombination amp Chromosome Rearrangements

July 28-August 2 Hematological Malignancies

August 4-9 Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Mitogenesis Morphogenesis amp Tumorigenesis

August 11-16 Protein Kinases

August 18-23 Advances in Obesity-From the Environment to the Gene

TUCSON ARIZONA June 9-16 Lysophospholipids and Related Bioactive Lipids in Biology amp Diseases

June 16-21 Physiological Functions of Antioxidant Nutrients amp Phytochemicals

June 23-28 The Biology and Chemistry of Vision

July 7-12 The TGF-B Superfamily Signaling amp Development

July 14-19 Muscle Satellite and Stem Cells

July 21-26 New Perspectives in Transporter Biology

July 28 - August 2 Phospholipase D

August 4-9 Commonalities amp Differences in the Mechanisms of Alcohol amp Other Drugs of Abuse

WHITEFISH MONTANA June 2-7 Micronutrients Trace Elements

June 9-14 Thrombin and Vascular Medicine

June 23-28 Steroids and Bone

June 30-July 5 The Calpain Gene Family in Health and Disease

July 7-12 Gastrointestinal Tract IX Mechanisms of Disease amp Protection

rl

-I OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES I

STAFF Geri Swindle Director OSMC

Julie Levin Manager SRC

FASEB SUM MER RE SEARCH CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Claude B KJee Protein Society Chair

Eda T Bloom AAI

Eric P Brass ASPET

Arthur E Broadus ASBMR

Barbara Brodsky Biophysical

Mark W Chapleau APS

Chi Van Dang ASCI

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann ENDO

Bronya Keats ASHG

Bo Lonnerdal ASNS

Cal Roskelley ASCB

William L Taylor ASBMB

Thea Tlsty ASIP

Robert J Tomanek AAA

Mary Jc Hendrix FASEB President

Sidney H Golub FASEB Executive Director

20

CAREER RESOURCES amp MARC

Jacquelyn Roberts Manager amp Associate Program Director

CAREER RESOURCES In 2001 the FASEB Career Resources Office reached the fiveshy

year milestone with CAREERS OnLine DaaNel Semices at

https ns2faseborg careerweb The website provides intershy

active advance registration for the FASEB Career Resources

CenterPlacement Service at related scientific meetings and a

year-round online employment search-and-referral database

for employers and applicants Since its January 1997 debut the

CAREERS OnLine CLASSIFIED weekly newsletter has been

well received in the recruitment advertising area The online

newsletter accounts for 70-75 of the Career Resources webshy

site activity It is posted every Wednesday at

httpsns2faseborgcareerwebClassifiedMainasp

Another successful Career Resources activity in 2001 was the

CAREERS OnLine Employer SearchNet TotoAccess Subscription

Services This service provides employers with total access to

the applicants complete profiles (including contact informashy

tion) listed in the CAREERS OnLine Appicant DalaNe The

usefulness and success of the CAREERS OnLine DataNel

Services continues to be reflected in the number of visits and

page requests which average approximately 69000-70000 per

month

The meeting-related career services (FASEB Career Resources

Center Placement Service) provide a user-friendly internetshy

based system to facilitate employer and applicant advance regshy

istration The on-site Placement Service features a computershy

assis ted system to help facilitate employer search-and-referral

of applicants interview scheduling and message notification

services In addition career development seminars and cover

letter resume critique workshops are provided as a feature of

the on-site Placement Service In 2001 we provided on-site

career services for the Experimental Biology 2001 (April)

American Thoracic Society International Conference 2001

(May) and the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

(November)

MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) PROGRAM S

The Minority Access to Research Careers (i1ARC) program

was created by the National Institute of General Medical

Sciences to increase the number of biomedical scientists from

minority groups The MARC program encourages minority

students in their pursuit of graduate training leading to the

PhD degree in the biomedical sciences

FASEB has supported the training of minority scientists for

the past 20 years through two IvARC grants that involve a varishy

ety of programs

bull Visiting Scientists for Minority Institutions program

bull Scholarships for minority scientis ts to attend FASEB society

scientific meetings and conferences

Scholarships for minority scientists to attend FASEB

Summer Research Conferences

bull Travel and subsistence awards for student summer research

opportunities at research universities and institutions

bull FASEB MARC activities and InfoNet on the FASEB

Internet web site located at httpsns2faseborgmarc

bull In conjunction with the American Association of Anat

omists (AAA) co-sponsor a Minority Students Program

and luncheon held during Experimental Biology 2001

designed to help motivate and encourage students to pursue

advanced degrees and research careers in the life science

bull Develops and hosts two grantsmanship training seminar pro

grams for principal investigators and research scientists in

Tucson Arizona These programs train research scientists in

the techniques necessary to develop their skills ideas and

research into successful grant applications

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Institutions Grantsmanship

Training seminar programs For the year 2001 program

were held at Savannah State University University of Texa

Pan-American University and the University of Texas a

San Antonio

bull Scholarships for minority scientists to participate in the

FASEB Grantsmanship Training seminars (established in

June 2000)

FASEB MARC Progra ms 2001 Activity Report

bull Visiting Scientist to Minority Institutions Travel Awards-7

visits

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Insti tutions Grantsmanship

Seminars-3 seminars

bull Scientific Meetings Travel Awards-58 (17 faculty 17 Stu

dents 24 posters)

bull Grantsmanship Training Seminars Travel Awards-26 scien

tists travel awards

bull Summer Research Conferences Travel Awards-28 faculty

travel awards

bull Summer Research Opportunity Program Travel Awards--49

student travel awards

21

OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES

Resort and Spa Arizona June 9 - August 9 and five were at SUMM ER RESEARCH CON FERENCES the Big Mountain Resort in Whitefish Montana June 2 - July

The 20th year of the FASEB Summer Research Conferences 12 Total attendance for the conferences was 3391 with an

(SRC) consisted of 31 conferences Ten conferences were held average of 110 persons per conference Twenty-eight percent

at the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River June 16 - August of the participants were from foreign countries

23 eight were at Snowmass Village Colorado June 30 shy

August 23 eight were at the Omni Tucson National Golf

2001 SUM MER RESEARCH CONFERE NCES

SAXTONS RIVER VERMONT June 16-21 Renal Microcirculatory Hemodynamics Molecular Cellular Physiologic Clinical amp

Integrative Mechanisms

June 23-28 Ubiquitin and Intracellular Protein Degradation

June 28-July 3 Autoimmunity

July 7-12 Helicases Structure Function and Roles in Human Disease

July 14-19 Prokaryotic Transcription Initiation

July 21-26 Biological Methylation

July 28-August 2 Ciliate Molecular Biology

August 4-9 Vitamin K amp the Synthesis Structure amp Function of Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins

August 11-16 Nuclear Structure and Cancer

August 18-23 Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation by Dietary Constituents

SNOWMASS COLORADO June 30-July 5 Glucose Transporter Biology

July 7-12 Chromatin amp Transcription

July 14-19 Transport ATPases From Genomics to Mechanism

July 21-26 Genetic Recombination amp Chromosome Rearrangements

July 28-August 2 Hematological Malignancies

August 4-9 Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Mitogenesis Morphogenesis amp Tumorigenesis

August 11-16 Protein Kinases

August 18-23 Advances in Obesity-From the Environment to the Gene

TUCSON ARIZONA June 9-16 Lysophospholipids and Related Bioactive Lipids in Biology amp Diseases

June 16-21 Physiological Functions of Antioxidant Nutrients amp Phytochemicals

June 23-28 The Biology and Chemistry of Vision

July 7-12 The TGF-B Superfamily Signaling amp Development

July 14-19 Muscle Satellite and Stem Cells

July 21-26 New Perspectives in Transporter Biology

July 28 - August 2 Phospholipase D

August 4-9 Commonalities amp Differences in the Mechanisms of Alcohol amp Other Drugs of Abuse

WHITEFISH MONTANA June 2-7 Micronutrients Trace Elements

June 9-14 Thrombin and Vascular Medicine

June 23-28 Steroids and Bone

June 30-July 5 The Calpain Gene Family in Health and Disease

July 7-12 Gastrointestinal Tract IX Mechanisms of Disease amp Protection

rl

-I OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES I

STAFF Geri Swindle Director OSMC

Julie Levin Manager SRC

FASEB SUM MER RE SEARCH CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Claude B KJee Protein Society Chair

Eda T Bloom AAI

Eric P Brass ASPET

Arthur E Broadus ASBMR

Barbara Brodsky Biophysical

Mark W Chapleau APS

Chi Van Dang ASCI

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann ENDO

Bronya Keats ASHG

Bo Lonnerdal ASNS

Cal Roskelley ASCB

William L Taylor ASBMB

Thea Tlsty ASIP

Robert J Tomanek AAA

Mary Jc Hendrix FASEB President

Sidney H Golub FASEB Executive Director

20

CAREER RESOURCES amp MARC

Jacquelyn Roberts Manager amp Associate Program Director

CAREER RESOURCES In 2001 the FASEB Career Resources Office reached the fiveshy

year milestone with CAREERS OnLine DaaNel Semices at

https ns2faseborg careerweb The website provides intershy

active advance registration for the FASEB Career Resources

CenterPlacement Service at related scientific meetings and a

year-round online employment search-and-referral database

for employers and applicants Since its January 1997 debut the

CAREERS OnLine CLASSIFIED weekly newsletter has been

well received in the recruitment advertising area The online

newsletter accounts for 70-75 of the Career Resources webshy

site activity It is posted every Wednesday at

httpsns2faseborgcareerwebClassifiedMainasp

Another successful Career Resources activity in 2001 was the

CAREERS OnLine Employer SearchNet TotoAccess Subscription

Services This service provides employers with total access to

the applicants complete profiles (including contact informashy

tion) listed in the CAREERS OnLine Appicant DalaNe The

usefulness and success of the CAREERS OnLine DataNel

Services continues to be reflected in the number of visits and

page requests which average approximately 69000-70000 per

month

The meeting-related career services (FASEB Career Resources

Center Placement Service) provide a user-friendly internetshy

based system to facilitate employer and applicant advance regshy

istration The on-site Placement Service features a computershy

assis ted system to help facilitate employer search-and-referral

of applicants interview scheduling and message notification

services In addition career development seminars and cover

letter resume critique workshops are provided as a feature of

the on-site Placement Service In 2001 we provided on-site

career services for the Experimental Biology 2001 (April)

American Thoracic Society International Conference 2001

(May) and the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

(November)

MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) PROGRAM S

The Minority Access to Research Careers (i1ARC) program

was created by the National Institute of General Medical

Sciences to increase the number of biomedical scientists from

minority groups The MARC program encourages minority

students in their pursuit of graduate training leading to the

PhD degree in the biomedical sciences

FASEB has supported the training of minority scientists for

the past 20 years through two IvARC grants that involve a varishy

ety of programs

bull Visiting Scientists for Minority Institutions program

bull Scholarships for minority scientis ts to attend FASEB society

scientific meetings and conferences

Scholarships for minority scientists to attend FASEB

Summer Research Conferences

bull Travel and subsistence awards for student summer research

opportunities at research universities and institutions

bull FASEB MARC activities and InfoNet on the FASEB

Internet web site located at httpsns2faseborgmarc

bull In conjunction with the American Association of Anat

omists (AAA) co-sponsor a Minority Students Program

and luncheon held during Experimental Biology 2001

designed to help motivate and encourage students to pursue

advanced degrees and research careers in the life science

bull Develops and hosts two grantsmanship training seminar pro

grams for principal investigators and research scientists in

Tucson Arizona These programs train research scientists in

the techniques necessary to develop their skills ideas and

research into successful grant applications

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Institutions Grantsmanship

Training seminar programs For the year 2001 program

were held at Savannah State University University of Texa

Pan-American University and the University of Texas a

San Antonio

bull Scholarships for minority scientists to participate in the

FASEB Grantsmanship Training seminars (established in

June 2000)

FASEB MARC Progra ms 2001 Activity Report

bull Visiting Scientist to Minority Institutions Travel Awards-7

visits

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Insti tutions Grantsmanship

Seminars-3 seminars

bull Scientific Meetings Travel Awards-58 (17 faculty 17 Stu

dents 24 posters)

bull Grantsmanship Training Seminars Travel Awards-26 scien

tists travel awards

bull Summer Research Conferences Travel Awards-28 faculty

travel awards

bull Summer Research Opportunity Program Travel Awards--49

student travel awards

21

-I OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS amp CONFERENCES I

STAFF Geri Swindle Director OSMC

Julie Levin Manager SRC

FASEB SUM MER RE SEARCH CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Claude B KJee Protein Society Chair

Eda T Bloom AAI

Eric P Brass ASPET

Arthur E Broadus ASBMR

Barbara Brodsky Biophysical

Mark W Chapleau APS

Chi Van Dang ASCI

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann ENDO

Bronya Keats ASHG

Bo Lonnerdal ASNS

Cal Roskelley ASCB

William L Taylor ASBMB

Thea Tlsty ASIP

Robert J Tomanek AAA

Mary Jc Hendrix FASEB President

Sidney H Golub FASEB Executive Director

20

CAREER RESOURCES amp MARC

Jacquelyn Roberts Manager amp Associate Program Director

CAREER RESOURCES In 2001 the FASEB Career Resources Office reached the fiveshy

year milestone with CAREERS OnLine DaaNel Semices at

https ns2faseborg careerweb The website provides intershy

active advance registration for the FASEB Career Resources

CenterPlacement Service at related scientific meetings and a

year-round online employment search-and-referral database

for employers and applicants Since its January 1997 debut the

CAREERS OnLine CLASSIFIED weekly newsletter has been

well received in the recruitment advertising area The online

newsletter accounts for 70-75 of the Career Resources webshy

site activity It is posted every Wednesday at

httpsns2faseborgcareerwebClassifiedMainasp

Another successful Career Resources activity in 2001 was the

CAREERS OnLine Employer SearchNet TotoAccess Subscription

Services This service provides employers with total access to

the applicants complete profiles (including contact informashy

tion) listed in the CAREERS OnLine Appicant DalaNe The

usefulness and success of the CAREERS OnLine DataNel

Services continues to be reflected in the number of visits and

page requests which average approximately 69000-70000 per

month

The meeting-related career services (FASEB Career Resources

Center Placement Service) provide a user-friendly internetshy

based system to facilitate employer and applicant advance regshy

istration The on-site Placement Service features a computershy

assis ted system to help facilitate employer search-and-referral

of applicants interview scheduling and message notification

services In addition career development seminars and cover

letter resume critique workshops are provided as a feature of

the on-site Placement Service In 2001 we provided on-site

career services for the Experimental Biology 2001 (April)

American Thoracic Society International Conference 2001

(May) and the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

(November)

MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) PROGRAM S

The Minority Access to Research Careers (i1ARC) program

was created by the National Institute of General Medical

Sciences to increase the number of biomedical scientists from

minority groups The MARC program encourages minority

students in their pursuit of graduate training leading to the

PhD degree in the biomedical sciences

FASEB has supported the training of minority scientists for

the past 20 years through two IvARC grants that involve a varishy

ety of programs

bull Visiting Scientists for Minority Institutions program

bull Scholarships for minority scientis ts to attend FASEB society

scientific meetings and conferences

Scholarships for minority scientists to attend FASEB

Summer Research Conferences

bull Travel and subsistence awards for student summer research

opportunities at research universities and institutions

bull FASEB MARC activities and InfoNet on the FASEB

Internet web site located at httpsns2faseborgmarc

bull In conjunction with the American Association of Anat

omists (AAA) co-sponsor a Minority Students Program

and luncheon held during Experimental Biology 2001

designed to help motivate and encourage students to pursue

advanced degrees and research careers in the life science

bull Develops and hosts two grantsmanship training seminar pro

grams for principal investigators and research scientists in

Tucson Arizona These programs train research scientists in

the techniques necessary to develop their skills ideas and

research into successful grant applications

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Institutions Grantsmanship

Training seminar programs For the year 2001 program

were held at Savannah State University University of Texa

Pan-American University and the University of Texas a

San Antonio

bull Scholarships for minority scientists to participate in the

FASEB Grantsmanship Training seminars (established in

June 2000)

FASEB MARC Progra ms 2001 Activity Report

bull Visiting Scientist to Minority Institutions Travel Awards-7

visits

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Insti tutions Grantsmanship

Seminars-3 seminars

bull Scientific Meetings Travel Awards-58 (17 faculty 17 Stu

dents 24 posters)

bull Grantsmanship Training Seminars Travel Awards-26 scien

tists travel awards

bull Summer Research Conferences Travel Awards-28 faculty

travel awards

bull Summer Research Opportunity Program Travel Awards--49

student travel awards

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CAREER RESOURCES amp MARC

Jacquelyn Roberts Manager amp Associate Program Director

CAREER RESOURCES In 2001 the FASEB Career Resources Office reached the fiveshy

year milestone with CAREERS OnLine DaaNel Semices at

https ns2faseborg careerweb The website provides intershy

active advance registration for the FASEB Career Resources

CenterPlacement Service at related scientific meetings and a

year-round online employment search-and-referral database

for employers and applicants Since its January 1997 debut the

CAREERS OnLine CLASSIFIED weekly newsletter has been

well received in the recruitment advertising area The online

newsletter accounts for 70-75 of the Career Resources webshy

site activity It is posted every Wednesday at

httpsns2faseborgcareerwebClassifiedMainasp

Another successful Career Resources activity in 2001 was the

CAREERS OnLine Employer SearchNet TotoAccess Subscription

Services This service provides employers with total access to

the applicants complete profiles (including contact informashy

tion) listed in the CAREERS OnLine Appicant DalaNe The

usefulness and success of the CAREERS OnLine DataNel

Services continues to be reflected in the number of visits and

page requests which average approximately 69000-70000 per

month

The meeting-related career services (FASEB Career Resources

Center Placement Service) provide a user-friendly internetshy

based system to facilitate employer and applicant advance regshy

istration The on-site Placement Service features a computershy

assis ted system to help facilitate employer search-and-referral

of applicants interview scheduling and message notification

services In addition career development seminars and cover

letter resume critique workshops are provided as a feature of

the on-site Placement Service In 2001 we provided on-site

career services for the Experimental Biology 2001 (April)

American Thoracic Society International Conference 2001

(May) and the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Annual Meeting

(November)

MINORITY ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) PROGRAM S

The Minority Access to Research Careers (i1ARC) program

was created by the National Institute of General Medical

Sciences to increase the number of biomedical scientists from

minority groups The MARC program encourages minority

students in their pursuit of graduate training leading to the

PhD degree in the biomedical sciences

FASEB has supported the training of minority scientists for

the past 20 years through two IvARC grants that involve a varishy

ety of programs

bull Visiting Scientists for Minority Institutions program

bull Scholarships for minority scientis ts to attend FASEB society

scientific meetings and conferences

Scholarships for minority scientists to attend FASEB

Summer Research Conferences

bull Travel and subsistence awards for student summer research

opportunities at research universities and institutions

bull FASEB MARC activities and InfoNet on the FASEB

Internet web site located at httpsns2faseborgmarc

bull In conjunction with the American Association of Anat

omists (AAA) co-sponsor a Minority Students Program

and luncheon held during Experimental Biology 2001

designed to help motivate and encourage students to pursue

advanced degrees and research careers in the life science

bull Develops and hosts two grantsmanship training seminar pro

grams for principal investigators and research scientists in

Tucson Arizona These programs train research scientists in

the techniques necessary to develop their skills ideas and

research into successful grant applications

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Institutions Grantsmanship

Training seminar programs For the year 2001 program

were held at Savannah State University University of Texa

Pan-American University and the University of Texas a

San Antonio

bull Scholarships for minority scientists to participate in the

FASEB Grantsmanship Training seminars (established in

June 2000)

FASEB MARC Progra ms 2001 Activity Report

bull Visiting Scientist to Minority Institutions Travel Awards-7

visits

bull Visiting Scientist Minority Insti tutions Grantsmanship

Seminars-3 seminars

bull Scientific Meetings Travel Awards-58 (17 faculty 17 Stu

dents 24 posters)

bull Grantsmanship Training Seminars Travel Awards-26 scien

tists travel awards

bull Summer Research Conferences Travel Awards-28 faculty

travel awards

bull Summer Research Opportunity Program Travel Awards--49

student travel awards

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LOGISTIC SUPPORT

- IL--he Federation provides physical and electronic infrashy

structure along with professional management and

production services to further the objectives of the

Member Societies and other life science societies that

purchase these services More than 40 of FASEB product

and service revenues in 2001 were generated through logistic

suppOrt

THE FASEB CAMPUS Over the years FASEB has become the physical center of the

life sciences and biomedical society and association world In

addition to housing 11 of its 21 Member Societies (see inside

front cover for full listing) another 8 organizations leased

space on the Beaumont Campus in 2001 including

bull American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMG)

bull American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG)

bull American College of Toxicology (ACT)

bull American Society for Clinical Nutrition

bull Federation of Animal Science Society (FASS)

bull Genetics Society of America(GSA)

bull Life Sciences Research Office (LSRO)

bull Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB)

Ten organizations purchased selected services from the folshy

lowing range of management offerings in 2001 Secretariat

Services (including mail telephone and email service)

Membership and Financial Services and Meetings or

Publications Management The societies and associations

served were

bull American Society for Virology (ASV)

bull Association of Neuroscience Departments

and Programs (ANDP)

bull Institute of Mathematical Statistics

bull International Society for Interferon

and Cytokine Research (ISICR)

bull International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX)

bull Ribonucleic Acid Society (RNA)

bull Society of Biological Inorganic ChemiStry (SBIC)

bull Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA)

bull Society for Cryobiology (CRYO)

bull Universities Associated for Research and Education

in Pathology (UAREP)

FINANCIAL SERVICES George T Wingate Jr D irector

Financial Services provides day-to-day financial management

ervices that range from basic accounting through full busishy

ness management The functions include accounts payable

and receivable payroll management and the more sophisticatshy

ed services of audit support financial statement preparation

budget preparation federal and private contract support and

filing of tax returns A staff of four actively licensed certified

public accountants along with an experienced suppOrt staff

provide these services Clients range from large FASEB

Member Societies to smaller non-member societies The

Financial Services department supports several scientific

meetings by providing professional staff for on-site registrashy

tion management and accounting

HUMAN RESOURCES Maureen Mu rphy Director

The Human Resources Office offers recruiting screening

payroll services and administers employee benefit programs

In addition it monitors compliance with all federal reporting

and disclosure requirements and administers salary manageshy

ment and performance management It also ensures complishy

ance with equal employment opportunity requirements

In 2001 FASEB APS ASPET and ASHG completed a one

year TeJework Pilot Program FASEB began the telework

pilot with 22 telecommuters and currently has 33 Over time

telework will serve as a business tool that will cut costs by

saving space time and money and will become a means of

recruiting in order to hire and retain valuable employees

TELECOMMUNICATIONS Sidney Golub E xecutive Officer FASEB

FASEBs electronic infrastructure was the subject of a major

reorganization in 2001 The Department of

Telecommunications was created in order to focus our efforts

at providing a high quality and reliable system of telephone

Internet and email services Some activities that were formershy

ly part of the Office of Communications and Information

Systems OCIS namely the database management services that

use the iNnS membership database were merged with anothshy

er group of membership services in the former Printing amp

Graphic Services to create the new Department of

Production Services

The Telecommunications Department personnel reported

directly to the FASEB Executive Director as a variety of

changes were undertaken The mission of the new unit is to

provide an up-to-date electronic infrastructure supported by

high quality and responsive service support The areas that

telecommunications were given to maintain are the telephone

system Internet access email and some areas of computer

technical support To improve thee services a major equipshy

ment upgrade for the data environment was realized in 2001

This included an upgrade of the firewall installation of new

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comprehensive anti-virus screening software a new Virtual

Private Network (vpl1) system for secure access from remote

locations new servers for the email and iMIS systems new

backup systems and a major increase in bandwidth for the

Internet connection with an additional bandwidth increase

scheduled for 2002

On the telephone side we undertook the replacement of our

telephone system which was more than a decade old and at

maximum capacity Based on advice from both external conshy

sultants and campus users a new system was chosen for instalshy

lation in early 2002 We also recruited Guy Riso an electrical

and computer engineer with experience in telephone systems

to manage the changeover to the new system Mr Riso became

manager of the Telecommunications Department in late 2001

OFFICE OF PRODUCTION SERVICES Richard A Dunn Director

The Office of Production Services was created in May 2001

by merging components of the former Office of

Communication and Information Services and the Printing

and Graphic Services department The new entity provides

previously existing support services to FASEB departments

Member Societies and non-member societies Services offered

in support of client efforts include website design developshy

ment and maintenance iMIS membership management supshy

port and training online abstract submission processing and

abstract and meeting program volume development and proshy

duction commercial and non-commercial mailing and strip list

generation database development and maintenance generashy

tion and distribution of mass emails electronic and papershy

based design desktop publishing pre-press printing and bindshy

ing and photography Production Services is composed of

twO units Information Services which consists of the composhy

nents from the former Office of Communication and

Information Services and Printing amp Graphic Services

The Information Services (IS) unit is currently redefining its

role as a training resource for subscribers to the FASEB iMIS

membership management system In September IS offered

subscribers of the FASEB iMIS system the chance to attend

an overview on the committee module functions built into the

iMIS system and readily available for their use Following the

overview subscribers were allowed to have staff attend a full

training session on the module This training was conducted

off campus by an authorized iMIS trainer The overview and

additional training was provided without additional cost to our

iMIS subscribers

Another new service provided this year was the availability of

in-house abstract processing consulting and coordination for

I LOGISTIC SUPPORT JI

larger meetings which use commercial vendors for online

abstract submission and processing This service allows

FASEB Member Societies to take advantage of the expertise

and experience of Kim Kline a staff member with over 20

years of abstract processing experience This expertise coushy

pled with onlioe submission and computing resources of

commercial vendors allowed for a higher degree of effectiveshy

ness for online abstract processing than that of previous years

The fust meeting to use this service is the Experimental

Biology 2002 meeting which will convene in New Orleans

The Printing amp Graphic Services unit saw a slight increase in

sales volume in 2001 The make-up of the work continues to

change as more products are produced both as paper-based

publications and electronic web publications Some papershy

based publications have made the transition to electronic-only

publication coupled with an abridged paper companion publishy

cation To address this change in increased volume of elecshy

tronic-based publications and the increased use of graphic eleshy

ments associated with web pages a full time designer was

added to staff in August The responsibilities of the position

include designing creating and implementing web pages and

paper-based products

The year also gave us an opportunity to recognize Don deWall

a long time fellow employee as he marked his 25th anniversary

of employment at FASEB Over his 25 years Don has witshy

nessed and participated in changing production processes as

the printing industry as a whole has changed due to the

advances brought on by computer-assisted production

processes

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Jeffrey L Yocum Facilities Manager

The Building and Grounds Departments primary job is the

operation care and maintenance of FASEBs buildings

grounds parking lots and roads The FASEB campus comshy

prises more than 11 acres of land and 5 buildings The departshy

ment is also responsible for the Conference Center safety and

security concessions and a wide range of special services

FASEB cleared a major hurdle in October 2001 when it was

granted a Special Exception by Montgomery County Board of

Appeals The Special Exception will allow FASEB to proceed

with its plans to build additional office space and a parking

deck The Federation needed the Special Exception because

the campus is in a residential-zoned area The appeal process

which began in January of 2001 included numerous public

hearings and meetings with community groups

Since granted the Special Exception FASEB has engaged a

team to complete the design Construction is expected to

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I LOGISTIC SUPPORT 1-------- commence mid-2002 and conclude mid-2003 The parking

deck will accommodate 220 cars and the new office is a 50000

square foot structure that will be connected to the existing Lee

Building by way of a new reception area

POSTAL PROCESSING amp PURCHASING SERVI CES John R Smisek Manager

Postal Processing Services is the main offlce for the pickup

and distribution of incoming and outgoing mail Incoming

mail from the USPS is picked up every morning and distribshy

uted to more than 50 campus offices Deliveries from other

carriers such as Federal E xpress and the United Parcel Service

(UPS) are received daily sorted and distributed Two schedshy

uled deliveries each day to campus offices assures same-day

processing of both incoming and outgoing mail which

includes charge back to individual office accounts

Postal mailing machines allow the office to handle larger

bulkmailings such as newsletters brochures fliers and stanshy

dard envelopes Computer-based ink-jet addressing system

and sorting software streamline production in accordance with

USPS standards and regulations

The Purchasing Office maintains an inventory of commonly

used office supplies which are offered to campus residents at

a significant discount because of procurement volume The

Purchasing Office has also changed several of its vendors durshy

ing the year which allows lower prices and improved service

The UPS account was replaced with Federal Express in July

2001 because of continuing billing and service problems As a

result of this change we were able to acquire lower rates and

better service

DU ES AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Eleanor B Peebles Manager

One of the most important aspects of a membership Society

is to accurately and efficiently keep records of their members

their current contact information dues payments and subshy

scriptions to Society periodicals This office provides this servshy

ice to 18 Society clients (both member and non-member)

Clients take advantage of the state-of-the-art iMIS membershy

ship database system used by most FASEB tenants Dues and

Subscriptions Services also manages the annual membership

and subscription renewal campaigns including design and

printing of forms mailings and secure handling of payments

into Society accounts The production of periodic subscripshy

tion lists for the mailing of journals optional journals and sinshy

gle-issue sales is another important function of this office

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SECRETARIAT SERVICES Delores M R Francis Client Services Associate

FASEB also offers complete headquarters office service to

those smaller society clients who wish to take advantage of

FASEBs variety of services but have not established a physishy

cal presence on the campus The Secretariat provides everyshy

thing from mail telephone and email service to management

of membership services newsletter and periodic member

mailings as well as the implementation of important society

events such as elections and governance meeting support In

addition the Secretariat clients typically take advantage of a

range of logistic support services such as membership and

frnancial management and print and mailing services

Organizations served by Secretariat Services in 2001 included

bull Association of Neuroscience Departments

and Programs (ANDP)

bull International Society for Interferon

and Cytokine Research OSICR)

bull Ribonucleic Acid Society (RNA)

bull Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)

bull Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA)

bull Society for Cryobiology (CRYO)

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

Edward P Rekas Comptroller George T Wingate Jr Director of Financial Services

[I he year ending December 31 2001 marked three disshy

tinctive financial events in the history of the

Federation First it concluded five consecutive years

during which dues plus income from services for

Society Members and tenants exceeded expenses for Public

Affairs and administrative COStS by more than $400000 Each

of the five years showed operating gains of $74000 to

$142000 except for 1999 which showed a small deficit of

$18000 Thus the Federation has the distinction of operashy

tional self-sufficiency allowing the Federations substantial

reserves to grow without significant withdrawals to support

operations Second for the first time since it adopted its curshy

rent financial structure in 1995 FASEB experienced a net loss

in the reserve account of $881000 This was due to unrealized

capital losses of $176 million in the equity reserve portfolio

that more than offset interest and realized gains of $881000

Third in December 2001 the Federation Board authorized

spending of up to $13 million for a new building and parking

structure whose construction will begin in mid-2002

The Federation fully adopted the Williamsburg financial plan

in 1995 It set Society dues at $10individual member and stipshy

ulated that dues plus fee for service income (equivalent to

todays operating income) should support the Office of Public

Affairs and FASEBs administrative costs For the first twO

years under the plan (1995-96) FASEB ran deficits of

$298000 and $416000 and this resulted in two specific

actions First the Public Affairs effort was scaled back from

$122 million in 1996 to $963000 in 1997 Second the Board

adopted a financial plan whereby FASEB could offset deficits

by drawing upon up to 5 of the 3-year trailing average of the

Program Reserve (roughly $500-600000 over the 1997-2001

period)

The growth in dues and operating income plus the reduced

Public Affairs effort eradicated the deficits and resulted in the

positive fmancial results of the past 5 years (save the $18000

deficit in 1999) While dues and operating income grew so did

Public Affairs spending returning to the 1996 level of $122

million in 2001 Over the same period dues and operating

income have grown from $200 million to $259 million while

administrative and Board related costs have remained at about

$12-13 million

Over the past five years Federation reserves grew from $100

million in 1996 to $163 million at the end of 2001 Reserves

grew with the general equity market trends by 20 19 and

9 (97-99) then by only 4 in 2000 and finally showed a

loss of 5 in 2001 Unrealized or paper losses of $13 and

$18 million in the past two years offset interest and realized

gains of $20 and $09 million respectively The change in net

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assets reflecting these reserve fluctuations along with an opershy

ating gain of $74000 thus turned negative in 2001

At their meeting in December 2001 the Board unanimously

approved a series of resolutions to construct a 50000 sg ft

office building and separate parking structure on the

Beaumont campus This capital effort will cost about $12-13

million and be financed by variable rate demand bonds issued

by the State of Maryland and backed by a bank letter-of-credit

STATEME NT OF ACTIVITIES The accompanying statement shows total operating revenues

(excluding Feserve income of $880782) of $14963867 and

expenses of $1488991 1 resulting in net income from operashy

tions of $73956 Adding in interest dividends and realized

gains from investments of $880782 results in an increase in

net assets of $954738 Subtracting unrealized capital losses of

$1762397 result in a year-end decrease in unrestricted net

assets of $807659 It is important to note that despite the

generally depressed state of the domestic economy

Federation revenue from operations rose by 3 in the pas

year

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION The investment account shows an erosion of $117 million

caused by three separate factors First the change in net asset

of $808000 accounts for most of it while another incremen

comes from a reduction in FASEBs deferred compensation

account of $162000 representing both withdrawals and

depreciation The balance or about $200000 is money spen

on the new building project that will not be capitalized until

the project is completed in 2003 That is this amount will be

eventually recovered in the Building Asset account

Finally the Finance Committee was expanded in 2001 to

include four members from the Board of Directors and now

comprises the following members

FINANCE COMMITIEE

David G Kaufman Acting Treasurer Chair

Stephen 1 Goodman Treasurer-Elect

Mary D Barkley Duane E Haines

R Davis Manning Richard B Marchase

Merle S Olson CN Pace

Robert D Wells Steven R Goldring

Palmer Taylor Elizabeth G Nabel

Marlene L Cohen Margaret A Shupnik

Stanley Cohen Gary Wessel

Carl L Keen Barbara A Osborne

Anronio Scarpa

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 312001 December 31 2000

$ 1370701

113056

644787

609914

18Q985

2919443

15665970

2612108

18278078

3832153

244079

4076232

25213153

613957

614281

91500

871417

946832

303236

116004

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 3223896 LONG-TERM DEBT

Notes Payable Bank of America

Economic Development Revenue Bonds 976267 TOTAL LIABILITIES 4200163

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted 19615792

Temporarily Restricted 69749 Permanently Restricted 14500 Total Net Assets 19700041 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23900204

3557227

1092271

4649498

20423451

186304

14500

20624255

25273753

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH $ RECEIVABLES

Government Contracts and Grants

Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Membership Publication and Contract Services

Supplies and Prepaid Expenses

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue from Future Publication Sales

and Other Income Collected in Advance

Amounts Held for Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Amounts Held for Custodial Funds from Managed Meetings

Amounts Owed to Employees Under Deferred

Compensation Plan

Accrued Employees Leave

Notes Payable Bank of America (Current Portion)

Economic Development Revenue Bonds

70922

58720

806652

1239409

239415

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 2415118

INVESTMENTS

Investments at Cost 16256043

Increment for Market Value 849711

Investments at Market Value 17105754

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT NET

Land Buildings and Improvements 4094731

Furniture Equipment and Software 284601

Net Property and Equipment 4379332

TOTAL ASSETS 23900204

472342

722742

91500

706294

784258

330756

116004

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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MEMBER ampASSOCIATE rvlEMBER SOCIETIES

T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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I MEMBER amp ASSOCIATE MEMBER SOCIETIES I

2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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comprehensive anti-virus screening software a new Virtual

Private Network (vpl1) system for secure access from remote

locations new servers for the email and iMIS systems new

backup systems and a major increase in bandwidth for the

Internet connection with an additional bandwidth increase

scheduled for 2002

On the telephone side we undertook the replacement of our

telephone system which was more than a decade old and at

maximum capacity Based on advice from both external conshy

sultants and campus users a new system was chosen for instalshy

lation in early 2002 We also recruited Guy Riso an electrical

and computer engineer with experience in telephone systems

to manage the changeover to the new system Mr Riso became

manager of the Telecommunications Department in late 2001

OFFICE OF PRODUCTION SERVICES Richard A Dunn Director

The Office of Production Services was created in May 2001

by merging components of the former Office of

Communication and Information Services and the Printing

and Graphic Services department The new entity provides

previously existing support services to FASEB departments

Member Societies and non-member societies Services offered

in support of client efforts include website design developshy

ment and maintenance iMIS membership management supshy

port and training online abstract submission processing and

abstract and meeting program volume development and proshy

duction commercial and non-commercial mailing and strip list

generation database development and maintenance generashy

tion and distribution of mass emails electronic and papershy

based design desktop publishing pre-press printing and bindshy

ing and photography Production Services is composed of

twO units Information Services which consists of the composhy

nents from the former Office of Communication and

Information Services and Printing amp Graphic Services

The Information Services (IS) unit is currently redefining its

role as a training resource for subscribers to the FASEB iMIS

membership management system In September IS offered

subscribers of the FASEB iMIS system the chance to attend

an overview on the committee module functions built into the

iMIS system and readily available for their use Following the

overview subscribers were allowed to have staff attend a full

training session on the module This training was conducted

off campus by an authorized iMIS trainer The overview and

additional training was provided without additional cost to our

iMIS subscribers

Another new service provided this year was the availability of

in-house abstract processing consulting and coordination for

I LOGISTIC SUPPORT JI

larger meetings which use commercial vendors for online

abstract submission and processing This service allows

FASEB Member Societies to take advantage of the expertise

and experience of Kim Kline a staff member with over 20

years of abstract processing experience This expertise coushy

pled with onlioe submission and computing resources of

commercial vendors allowed for a higher degree of effectiveshy

ness for online abstract processing than that of previous years

The fust meeting to use this service is the Experimental

Biology 2002 meeting which will convene in New Orleans

The Printing amp Graphic Services unit saw a slight increase in

sales volume in 2001 The make-up of the work continues to

change as more products are produced both as paper-based

publications and electronic web publications Some papershy

based publications have made the transition to electronic-only

publication coupled with an abridged paper companion publishy

cation To address this change in increased volume of elecshy

tronic-based publications and the increased use of graphic eleshy

ments associated with web pages a full time designer was

added to staff in August The responsibilities of the position

include designing creating and implementing web pages and

paper-based products

The year also gave us an opportunity to recognize Don deWall

a long time fellow employee as he marked his 25th anniversary

of employment at FASEB Over his 25 years Don has witshy

nessed and participated in changing production processes as

the printing industry as a whole has changed due to the

advances brought on by computer-assisted production

processes

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Jeffrey L Yocum Facilities Manager

The Building and Grounds Departments primary job is the

operation care and maintenance of FASEBs buildings

grounds parking lots and roads The FASEB campus comshy

prises more than 11 acres of land and 5 buildings The departshy

ment is also responsible for the Conference Center safety and

security concessions and a wide range of special services

FASEB cleared a major hurdle in October 2001 when it was

granted a Special Exception by Montgomery County Board of

Appeals The Special Exception will allow FASEB to proceed

with its plans to build additional office space and a parking

deck The Federation needed the Special Exception because

the campus is in a residential-zoned area The appeal process

which began in January of 2001 included numerous public

hearings and meetings with community groups

Since granted the Special Exception FASEB has engaged a

team to complete the design Construction is expected to

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I LOGISTIC SUPPORT 1-------- commence mid-2002 and conclude mid-2003 The parking

deck will accommodate 220 cars and the new office is a 50000

square foot structure that will be connected to the existing Lee

Building by way of a new reception area

POSTAL PROCESSING amp PURCHASING SERVI CES John R Smisek Manager

Postal Processing Services is the main offlce for the pickup

and distribution of incoming and outgoing mail Incoming

mail from the USPS is picked up every morning and distribshy

uted to more than 50 campus offices Deliveries from other

carriers such as Federal E xpress and the United Parcel Service

(UPS) are received daily sorted and distributed Two schedshy

uled deliveries each day to campus offices assures same-day

processing of both incoming and outgoing mail which

includes charge back to individual office accounts

Postal mailing machines allow the office to handle larger

bulkmailings such as newsletters brochures fliers and stanshy

dard envelopes Computer-based ink-jet addressing system

and sorting software streamline production in accordance with

USPS standards and regulations

The Purchasing Office maintains an inventory of commonly

used office supplies which are offered to campus residents at

a significant discount because of procurement volume The

Purchasing Office has also changed several of its vendors durshy

ing the year which allows lower prices and improved service

The UPS account was replaced with Federal Express in July

2001 because of continuing billing and service problems As a

result of this change we were able to acquire lower rates and

better service

DU ES AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Eleanor B Peebles Manager

One of the most important aspects of a membership Society

is to accurately and efficiently keep records of their members

their current contact information dues payments and subshy

scriptions to Society periodicals This office provides this servshy

ice to 18 Society clients (both member and non-member)

Clients take advantage of the state-of-the-art iMIS membershy

ship database system used by most FASEB tenants Dues and

Subscriptions Services also manages the annual membership

and subscription renewal campaigns including design and

printing of forms mailings and secure handling of payments

into Society accounts The production of periodic subscripshy

tion lists for the mailing of journals optional journals and sinshy

gle-issue sales is another important function of this office

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SECRETARIAT SERVICES Delores M R Francis Client Services Associate

FASEB also offers complete headquarters office service to

those smaller society clients who wish to take advantage of

FASEBs variety of services but have not established a physishy

cal presence on the campus The Secretariat provides everyshy

thing from mail telephone and email service to management

of membership services newsletter and periodic member

mailings as well as the implementation of important society

events such as elections and governance meeting support In

addition the Secretariat clients typically take advantage of a

range of logistic support services such as membership and

frnancial management and print and mailing services

Organizations served by Secretariat Services in 2001 included

bull Association of Neuroscience Departments

and Programs (ANDP)

bull International Society for Interferon

and Cytokine Research OSICR)

bull Ribonucleic Acid Society (RNA)

bull Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)

bull Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA)

bull Society for Cryobiology (CRYO)

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

Edward P Rekas Comptroller George T Wingate Jr Director of Financial Services

[I he year ending December 31 2001 marked three disshy

tinctive financial events in the history of the

Federation First it concluded five consecutive years

during which dues plus income from services for

Society Members and tenants exceeded expenses for Public

Affairs and administrative COStS by more than $400000 Each

of the five years showed operating gains of $74000 to

$142000 except for 1999 which showed a small deficit of

$18000 Thus the Federation has the distinction of operashy

tional self-sufficiency allowing the Federations substantial

reserves to grow without significant withdrawals to support

operations Second for the first time since it adopted its curshy

rent financial structure in 1995 FASEB experienced a net loss

in the reserve account of $881000 This was due to unrealized

capital losses of $176 million in the equity reserve portfolio

that more than offset interest and realized gains of $881000

Third in December 2001 the Federation Board authorized

spending of up to $13 million for a new building and parking

structure whose construction will begin in mid-2002

The Federation fully adopted the Williamsburg financial plan

in 1995 It set Society dues at $10individual member and stipshy

ulated that dues plus fee for service income (equivalent to

todays operating income) should support the Office of Public

Affairs and FASEBs administrative costs For the first twO

years under the plan (1995-96) FASEB ran deficits of

$298000 and $416000 and this resulted in two specific

actions First the Public Affairs effort was scaled back from

$122 million in 1996 to $963000 in 1997 Second the Board

adopted a financial plan whereby FASEB could offset deficits

by drawing upon up to 5 of the 3-year trailing average of the

Program Reserve (roughly $500-600000 over the 1997-2001

period)

The growth in dues and operating income plus the reduced

Public Affairs effort eradicated the deficits and resulted in the

positive fmancial results of the past 5 years (save the $18000

deficit in 1999) While dues and operating income grew so did

Public Affairs spending returning to the 1996 level of $122

million in 2001 Over the same period dues and operating

income have grown from $200 million to $259 million while

administrative and Board related costs have remained at about

$12-13 million

Over the past five years Federation reserves grew from $100

million in 1996 to $163 million at the end of 2001 Reserves

grew with the general equity market trends by 20 19 and

9 (97-99) then by only 4 in 2000 and finally showed a

loss of 5 in 2001 Unrealized or paper losses of $13 and

$18 million in the past two years offset interest and realized

gains of $20 and $09 million respectively The change in net

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assets reflecting these reserve fluctuations along with an opershy

ating gain of $74000 thus turned negative in 2001

At their meeting in December 2001 the Board unanimously

approved a series of resolutions to construct a 50000 sg ft

office building and separate parking structure on the

Beaumont campus This capital effort will cost about $12-13

million and be financed by variable rate demand bonds issued

by the State of Maryland and backed by a bank letter-of-credit

STATEME NT OF ACTIVITIES The accompanying statement shows total operating revenues

(excluding Feserve income of $880782) of $14963867 and

expenses of $1488991 1 resulting in net income from operashy

tions of $73956 Adding in interest dividends and realized

gains from investments of $880782 results in an increase in

net assets of $954738 Subtracting unrealized capital losses of

$1762397 result in a year-end decrease in unrestricted net

assets of $807659 It is important to note that despite the

generally depressed state of the domestic economy

Federation revenue from operations rose by 3 in the pas

year

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION The investment account shows an erosion of $117 million

caused by three separate factors First the change in net asset

of $808000 accounts for most of it while another incremen

comes from a reduction in FASEBs deferred compensation

account of $162000 representing both withdrawals and

depreciation The balance or about $200000 is money spen

on the new building project that will not be capitalized until

the project is completed in 2003 That is this amount will be

eventually recovered in the Building Asset account

Finally the Finance Committee was expanded in 2001 to

include four members from the Board of Directors and now

comprises the following members

FINANCE COMMITIEE

David G Kaufman Acting Treasurer Chair

Stephen 1 Goodman Treasurer-Elect

Mary D Barkley Duane E Haines

R Davis Manning Richard B Marchase

Merle S Olson CN Pace

Robert D Wells Steven R Goldring

Palmer Taylor Elizabeth G Nabel

Marlene L Cohen Margaret A Shupnik

Stanley Cohen Gary Wessel

Carl L Keen Barbara A Osborne

Anronio Scarpa

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 312001 December 31 2000

$ 1370701

113056

644787

609914

18Q985

2919443

15665970

2612108

18278078

3832153

244079

4076232

25213153

613957

614281

91500

871417

946832

303236

116004

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 3223896 LONG-TERM DEBT

Notes Payable Bank of America

Economic Development Revenue Bonds 976267 TOTAL LIABILITIES 4200163

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted 19615792

Temporarily Restricted 69749 Permanently Restricted 14500 Total Net Assets 19700041 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23900204

3557227

1092271

4649498

20423451

186304

14500

20624255

25273753

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH $ RECEIVABLES

Government Contracts and Grants

Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Membership Publication and Contract Services

Supplies and Prepaid Expenses

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue from Future Publication Sales

and Other Income Collected in Advance

Amounts Held for Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Amounts Held for Custodial Funds from Managed Meetings

Amounts Owed to Employees Under Deferred

Compensation Plan

Accrued Employees Leave

Notes Payable Bank of America (Current Portion)

Economic Development Revenue Bonds

70922

58720

806652

1239409

239415

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 2415118

INVESTMENTS

Investments at Cost 16256043

Increment for Market Value 849711

Investments at Market Value 17105754

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT NET

Land Buildings and Improvements 4094731

Furniture Equipment and Software 284601

Net Property and Equipment 4379332

TOTAL ASSETS 23900204

472342

722742

91500

706294

784258

330756

116004

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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MEMBER ampASSOCIATE rvlEMBER SOCIETIES

T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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I LOGISTIC SUPPORT 1-------- commence mid-2002 and conclude mid-2003 The parking

deck will accommodate 220 cars and the new office is a 50000

square foot structure that will be connected to the existing Lee

Building by way of a new reception area

POSTAL PROCESSING amp PURCHASING SERVI CES John R Smisek Manager

Postal Processing Services is the main offlce for the pickup

and distribution of incoming and outgoing mail Incoming

mail from the USPS is picked up every morning and distribshy

uted to more than 50 campus offices Deliveries from other

carriers such as Federal E xpress and the United Parcel Service

(UPS) are received daily sorted and distributed Two schedshy

uled deliveries each day to campus offices assures same-day

processing of both incoming and outgoing mail which

includes charge back to individual office accounts

Postal mailing machines allow the office to handle larger

bulkmailings such as newsletters brochures fliers and stanshy

dard envelopes Computer-based ink-jet addressing system

and sorting software streamline production in accordance with

USPS standards and regulations

The Purchasing Office maintains an inventory of commonly

used office supplies which are offered to campus residents at

a significant discount because of procurement volume The

Purchasing Office has also changed several of its vendors durshy

ing the year which allows lower prices and improved service

The UPS account was replaced with Federal Express in July

2001 because of continuing billing and service problems As a

result of this change we were able to acquire lower rates and

better service

DU ES AND SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Eleanor B Peebles Manager

One of the most important aspects of a membership Society

is to accurately and efficiently keep records of their members

their current contact information dues payments and subshy

scriptions to Society periodicals This office provides this servshy

ice to 18 Society clients (both member and non-member)

Clients take advantage of the state-of-the-art iMIS membershy

ship database system used by most FASEB tenants Dues and

Subscriptions Services also manages the annual membership

and subscription renewal campaigns including design and

printing of forms mailings and secure handling of payments

into Society accounts The production of periodic subscripshy

tion lists for the mailing of journals optional journals and sinshy

gle-issue sales is another important function of this office

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SECRETARIAT SERVICES Delores M R Francis Client Services Associate

FASEB also offers complete headquarters office service to

those smaller society clients who wish to take advantage of

FASEBs variety of services but have not established a physishy

cal presence on the campus The Secretariat provides everyshy

thing from mail telephone and email service to management

of membership services newsletter and periodic member

mailings as well as the implementation of important society

events such as elections and governance meeting support In

addition the Secretariat clients typically take advantage of a

range of logistic support services such as membership and

frnancial management and print and mailing services

Organizations served by Secretariat Services in 2001 included

bull Association of Neuroscience Departments

and Programs (ANDP)

bull International Society for Interferon

and Cytokine Research OSICR)

bull Ribonucleic Acid Society (RNA)

bull Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)

bull Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA)

bull Society for Cryobiology (CRYO)

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

Edward P Rekas Comptroller George T Wingate Jr Director of Financial Services

[I he year ending December 31 2001 marked three disshy

tinctive financial events in the history of the

Federation First it concluded five consecutive years

during which dues plus income from services for

Society Members and tenants exceeded expenses for Public

Affairs and administrative COStS by more than $400000 Each

of the five years showed operating gains of $74000 to

$142000 except for 1999 which showed a small deficit of

$18000 Thus the Federation has the distinction of operashy

tional self-sufficiency allowing the Federations substantial

reserves to grow without significant withdrawals to support

operations Second for the first time since it adopted its curshy

rent financial structure in 1995 FASEB experienced a net loss

in the reserve account of $881000 This was due to unrealized

capital losses of $176 million in the equity reserve portfolio

that more than offset interest and realized gains of $881000

Third in December 2001 the Federation Board authorized

spending of up to $13 million for a new building and parking

structure whose construction will begin in mid-2002

The Federation fully adopted the Williamsburg financial plan

in 1995 It set Society dues at $10individual member and stipshy

ulated that dues plus fee for service income (equivalent to

todays operating income) should support the Office of Public

Affairs and FASEBs administrative costs For the first twO

years under the plan (1995-96) FASEB ran deficits of

$298000 and $416000 and this resulted in two specific

actions First the Public Affairs effort was scaled back from

$122 million in 1996 to $963000 in 1997 Second the Board

adopted a financial plan whereby FASEB could offset deficits

by drawing upon up to 5 of the 3-year trailing average of the

Program Reserve (roughly $500-600000 over the 1997-2001

period)

The growth in dues and operating income plus the reduced

Public Affairs effort eradicated the deficits and resulted in the

positive fmancial results of the past 5 years (save the $18000

deficit in 1999) While dues and operating income grew so did

Public Affairs spending returning to the 1996 level of $122

million in 2001 Over the same period dues and operating

income have grown from $200 million to $259 million while

administrative and Board related costs have remained at about

$12-13 million

Over the past five years Federation reserves grew from $100

million in 1996 to $163 million at the end of 2001 Reserves

grew with the general equity market trends by 20 19 and

9 (97-99) then by only 4 in 2000 and finally showed a

loss of 5 in 2001 Unrealized or paper losses of $13 and

$18 million in the past two years offset interest and realized

gains of $20 and $09 million respectively The change in net

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assets reflecting these reserve fluctuations along with an opershy

ating gain of $74000 thus turned negative in 2001

At their meeting in December 2001 the Board unanimously

approved a series of resolutions to construct a 50000 sg ft

office building and separate parking structure on the

Beaumont campus This capital effort will cost about $12-13

million and be financed by variable rate demand bonds issued

by the State of Maryland and backed by a bank letter-of-credit

STATEME NT OF ACTIVITIES The accompanying statement shows total operating revenues

(excluding Feserve income of $880782) of $14963867 and

expenses of $1488991 1 resulting in net income from operashy

tions of $73956 Adding in interest dividends and realized

gains from investments of $880782 results in an increase in

net assets of $954738 Subtracting unrealized capital losses of

$1762397 result in a year-end decrease in unrestricted net

assets of $807659 It is important to note that despite the

generally depressed state of the domestic economy

Federation revenue from operations rose by 3 in the pas

year

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION The investment account shows an erosion of $117 million

caused by three separate factors First the change in net asset

of $808000 accounts for most of it while another incremen

comes from a reduction in FASEBs deferred compensation

account of $162000 representing both withdrawals and

depreciation The balance or about $200000 is money spen

on the new building project that will not be capitalized until

the project is completed in 2003 That is this amount will be

eventually recovered in the Building Asset account

Finally the Finance Committee was expanded in 2001 to

include four members from the Board of Directors and now

comprises the following members

FINANCE COMMITIEE

David G Kaufman Acting Treasurer Chair

Stephen 1 Goodman Treasurer-Elect

Mary D Barkley Duane E Haines

R Davis Manning Richard B Marchase

Merle S Olson CN Pace

Robert D Wells Steven R Goldring

Palmer Taylor Elizabeth G Nabel

Marlene L Cohen Margaret A Shupnik

Stanley Cohen Gary Wessel

Carl L Keen Barbara A Osborne

Anronio Scarpa

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 312001 December 31 2000

$ 1370701

113056

644787

609914

18Q985

2919443

15665970

2612108

18278078

3832153

244079

4076232

25213153

613957

614281

91500

871417

946832

303236

116004

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 3223896 LONG-TERM DEBT

Notes Payable Bank of America

Economic Development Revenue Bonds 976267 TOTAL LIABILITIES 4200163

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted 19615792

Temporarily Restricted 69749 Permanently Restricted 14500 Total Net Assets 19700041 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23900204

3557227

1092271

4649498

20423451

186304

14500

20624255

25273753

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH $ RECEIVABLES

Government Contracts and Grants

Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Membership Publication and Contract Services

Supplies and Prepaid Expenses

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue from Future Publication Sales

and Other Income Collected in Advance

Amounts Held for Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Amounts Held for Custodial Funds from Managed Meetings

Amounts Owed to Employees Under Deferred

Compensation Plan

Accrued Employees Leave

Notes Payable Bank of America (Current Portion)

Economic Development Revenue Bonds

70922

58720

806652

1239409

239415

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 2415118

INVESTMENTS

Investments at Cost 16256043

Increment for Market Value 849711

Investments at Market Value 17105754

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT NET

Land Buildings and Improvements 4094731

Furniture Equipment and Software 284601

Net Property and Equipment 4379332

TOTAL ASSETS 23900204

472342

722742

91500

706294

784258

330756

116004

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

Edward P Rekas Comptroller George T Wingate Jr Director of Financial Services

[I he year ending December 31 2001 marked three disshy

tinctive financial events in the history of the

Federation First it concluded five consecutive years

during which dues plus income from services for

Society Members and tenants exceeded expenses for Public

Affairs and administrative COStS by more than $400000 Each

of the five years showed operating gains of $74000 to

$142000 except for 1999 which showed a small deficit of

$18000 Thus the Federation has the distinction of operashy

tional self-sufficiency allowing the Federations substantial

reserves to grow without significant withdrawals to support

operations Second for the first time since it adopted its curshy

rent financial structure in 1995 FASEB experienced a net loss

in the reserve account of $881000 This was due to unrealized

capital losses of $176 million in the equity reserve portfolio

that more than offset interest and realized gains of $881000

Third in December 2001 the Federation Board authorized

spending of up to $13 million for a new building and parking

structure whose construction will begin in mid-2002

The Federation fully adopted the Williamsburg financial plan

in 1995 It set Society dues at $10individual member and stipshy

ulated that dues plus fee for service income (equivalent to

todays operating income) should support the Office of Public

Affairs and FASEBs administrative costs For the first twO

years under the plan (1995-96) FASEB ran deficits of

$298000 and $416000 and this resulted in two specific

actions First the Public Affairs effort was scaled back from

$122 million in 1996 to $963000 in 1997 Second the Board

adopted a financial plan whereby FASEB could offset deficits

by drawing upon up to 5 of the 3-year trailing average of the

Program Reserve (roughly $500-600000 over the 1997-2001

period)

The growth in dues and operating income plus the reduced

Public Affairs effort eradicated the deficits and resulted in the

positive fmancial results of the past 5 years (save the $18000

deficit in 1999) While dues and operating income grew so did

Public Affairs spending returning to the 1996 level of $122

million in 2001 Over the same period dues and operating

income have grown from $200 million to $259 million while

administrative and Board related costs have remained at about

$12-13 million

Over the past five years Federation reserves grew from $100

million in 1996 to $163 million at the end of 2001 Reserves

grew with the general equity market trends by 20 19 and

9 (97-99) then by only 4 in 2000 and finally showed a

loss of 5 in 2001 Unrealized or paper losses of $13 and

$18 million in the past two years offset interest and realized

gains of $20 and $09 million respectively The change in net

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assets reflecting these reserve fluctuations along with an opershy

ating gain of $74000 thus turned negative in 2001

At their meeting in December 2001 the Board unanimously

approved a series of resolutions to construct a 50000 sg ft

office building and separate parking structure on the

Beaumont campus This capital effort will cost about $12-13

million and be financed by variable rate demand bonds issued

by the State of Maryland and backed by a bank letter-of-credit

STATEME NT OF ACTIVITIES The accompanying statement shows total operating revenues

(excluding Feserve income of $880782) of $14963867 and

expenses of $1488991 1 resulting in net income from operashy

tions of $73956 Adding in interest dividends and realized

gains from investments of $880782 results in an increase in

net assets of $954738 Subtracting unrealized capital losses of

$1762397 result in a year-end decrease in unrestricted net

assets of $807659 It is important to note that despite the

generally depressed state of the domestic economy

Federation revenue from operations rose by 3 in the pas

year

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION The investment account shows an erosion of $117 million

caused by three separate factors First the change in net asset

of $808000 accounts for most of it while another incremen

comes from a reduction in FASEBs deferred compensation

account of $162000 representing both withdrawals and

depreciation The balance or about $200000 is money spen

on the new building project that will not be capitalized until

the project is completed in 2003 That is this amount will be

eventually recovered in the Building Asset account

Finally the Finance Committee was expanded in 2001 to

include four members from the Board of Directors and now

comprises the following members

FINANCE COMMITIEE

David G Kaufman Acting Treasurer Chair

Stephen 1 Goodman Treasurer-Elect

Mary D Barkley Duane E Haines

R Davis Manning Richard B Marchase

Merle S Olson CN Pace

Robert D Wells Steven R Goldring

Palmer Taylor Elizabeth G Nabel

Marlene L Cohen Margaret A Shupnik

Stanley Cohen Gary Wessel

Carl L Keen Barbara A Osborne

Anronio Scarpa

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 312001 December 31 2000

$ 1370701

113056

644787

609914

18Q985

2919443

15665970

2612108

18278078

3832153

244079

4076232

25213153

613957

614281

91500

871417

946832

303236

116004

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 3223896 LONG-TERM DEBT

Notes Payable Bank of America

Economic Development Revenue Bonds 976267 TOTAL LIABILITIES 4200163

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted 19615792

Temporarily Restricted 69749 Permanently Restricted 14500 Total Net Assets 19700041 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23900204

3557227

1092271

4649498

20423451

186304

14500

20624255

25273753

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH $ RECEIVABLES

Government Contracts and Grants

Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Membership Publication and Contract Services

Supplies and Prepaid Expenses

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue from Future Publication Sales

and Other Income Collected in Advance

Amounts Held for Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Amounts Held for Custodial Funds from Managed Meetings

Amounts Owed to Employees Under Deferred

Compensation Plan

Accrued Employees Leave

Notes Payable Bank of America (Current Portion)

Economic Development Revenue Bonds

70922

58720

806652

1239409

239415

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 2415118

INVESTMENTS

Investments at Cost 16256043

Increment for Market Value 849711

Investments at Market Value 17105754

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT NET

Land Buildings and Improvements 4094731

Furniture Equipment and Software 284601

Net Property and Equipment 4379332

TOTAL ASSETS 23900204

472342

722742

91500

706294

784258

330756

116004

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

December 312001 December 31 2000

$ 1370701

113056

644787

609914

18Q985

2919443

15665970

2612108

18278078

3832153

244079

4076232

25213153

613957

614281

91500

871417

946832

303236

116004

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 3223896 LONG-TERM DEBT

Notes Payable Bank of America

Economic Development Revenue Bonds 976267 TOTAL LIABILITIES 4200163

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted 19615792

Temporarily Restricted 69749 Permanently Restricted 14500 Total Net Assets 19700041 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 23900204

3557227

1092271

4649498

20423451

186304

14500

20624255

25273753

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH $ RECEIVABLES

Government Contracts and Grants

Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Membership Publication and Contract Services

Supplies and Prepaid Expenses

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Deferred Revenue from Future Publication Sales

and Other Income Collected in Advance

Amounts Held for Member Societies and Custodial Accounts

Amounts Held for Custodial Funds from Managed Meetings

Amounts Owed to Employees Under Deferred

Compensation Plan

Accrued Employees Leave

Notes Payable Bank of America (Current Portion)

Economic Development Revenue Bonds

70922

58720

806652

1239409

239415

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 2415118

INVESTMENTS

Investments at Cost 16256043

Increment for Market Value 849711

Investments at Market Value 17105754

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT NET

Land Buildings and Improvements 4094731

Furniture Equipment and Software 284601

Net Property and Equipment 4379332

TOTAL ASSETS 23900204

472342

722742

91500

706294

784258

330756

116004

2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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2001 FINANCIAL REPORTS

COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31 2001 AND 2000

2001 2000 TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY

UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Society Dues $ 564030 $ 564030 $ 561760

Government and Private Support 918916 918916 898835

Subscriptions 1119448 1119448 1116708

Single-issue Sales 302853 302853 274224

Reprint Sales Page Charges and Royalties 412642 412642 254552

Advertising 289928 289928 306762

Redactory Fees 238730 238730 248794

Exhibit and Advertising Commissions 460548 460548 470243

Management Fees 1042094 1042094 1105136

Registrations 3029972 3029972 3017609

Conference Support and Grants 1043199 67000 1110199 1110332

EmployerApplicant Online Listings 1150

No InterviewsResume Fees 17625 17625 21925

Applicant Online Searches 21200 21200 18700

Referrals and Outplacement 5648 5648 180

Rent 1304854 1304854 1301087

Business Service Charges to Custodian Funds 61543 61543 86936

Printing Computer Mailing

amp Other Business Services 3411811 3411811 3232775

Dividends Interest and Capital Gains 880782 1028 881810 2012222

Mailing List Sales 100255 100255 117126

Other Income 201488 201488 159228

Net Assets Released from Restrictions 184583 (184583)

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 15612149 (116555) 15495594 16316284

EXPENSES

Program Services

Public Affairs 1257305 1257305 1380840

Scientific Meetings and Conferences 4407635 4407635 4253030

Publications and Directory 2218889 2218889 2146199

Career Resources 324200 324200 353288

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8208029 8208029 8133357

Supporting Services 5529765 5529765 5075893

Government and Privately Supported

Projects 918916 918916 898835 Memorial Fund 7Ql ZQl 702 TOTAL EXPENSES 14657411 14657411 14108787

Increase in Net Assets from Operations 954738 (116555) 838183 2207497 Net Unrealized Gains (Losses)

on Investments (1762397) (1762397) (1286020) Increase in Net Assets (807659) (116555) 924214 921477 Net Assets Beginning of Year 20423451 186304 14500 20624255 19702778 Net Assets End of Year $19615792 $69749 $14500 $19700041 $20624255

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MEMBER ampASSOCIATE rvlEMBER SOCIETIES

T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

i

Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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T he American Physiological Society-APS Founded December 30 1887 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Mission The APS provides leadership in Ihe life sciences iY promoting excelshylence and innovation in physiological research and edllcation and 0 providing inforolation to the scientific commllnity and to the pllblic President John E Hall PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson MS Executive Director Martin Frank PhD Membersh ip 11152 Publications Amencan jOllrnal of Ph)Siology jOllrnalof Applied Physiology jOlrnalof Netlrop0siology Physiological Reviellls Physiological Genomics News in Physiological Sciences Advances in P0siology Edllcation The P0siologisl APStracts 2001 Meetings Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4 APS Conferences Banff Nberta Canada October 10-14 Pittsburgh PA October 17-21

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology- ASBMB Founded December 26 1906 Fo unding Member of FASEB 1912 Miss ion The pllrpose of the Society is the extension and lltilization of bioshychemislo and molemlar biology President Robert D Wells PhD Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas AampM University Houston TX Executive Di rector Charles C Hancock Membership 9960 Publ icat ions The journal of Biological Chemistry JBC Online BC Millirevie Compelldillm ASBMBNetvs 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 29-April 4

Ameri can Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics- ASPET Founded December 28 1908 Founding Member of FASEB 1912 Missio n The Societys purpose is 0 promote the advancement of the sciences of pharolacology and experimental tJJerapeutics and to facilitate the illterchange of inforoJation between investigators who are engaged in research in those fields 0 organizing scientific meetings pllblishillgjollrnals and engaging in other activities that advance the disciplille President Marlene L Cohen PhD Department 0 f Neuroscience

Lilly Research Labs Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis IN Executive Director Christine K Carrico PhD Membership 4936 Publications The PhannacologiJI - quarterly jOllrnalof Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacological Reviens - quarterly Molemlar Pharoacology Dmg Metabolism and Dispositiol Molemlar In-ter-ventions - bimonthly 2001 Meeting Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

American Society for Investigative PathologyshyASIP Founded December 1900 Member of FASEB since 1913 Mission ASIP is a society of biomedical scientists who investigate mechanisms of disease Illvesllgative pathology is an integrallve discipline tJ)at linles the presshyentallon of disease in the Ivhol organism 10 it filldallenlal celllliar and molemshylar mechallism IllIses a variety of stmclllra fllnctional and genetic techniques and IIllIinateIY applies research findings 10 the diagnois and treatmetll of disshyeases ASIP advocates for the praclIce of invesllgallve palhology andfosters Ibe professional career development alld edllcalloll of its members President Avrum r Gotlieb MD CM FRCP(C) Toronto ON Canada Executive Directo r Mark E Sobel MD PhD Me mbership 1547 Publications The Alllerican journal of Pathology - monthly The journal of MoleC1la DIagnostics - quarterly ASIP BIiIIeIlII - quarterly 2001 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 6

American Society for Nutritional SciencesshyASNS Founded September 271928 Me mber of FASEB since 1940 vi iss ion The American Society fo r N IItrillonal Sriences Ij the premier research soriety dedicated to improving the quality of life tbrollgb tbe science of nlttrillon We do this ry fostering and enbancing research in allimal and hllman nlttrillon providing OJl1 memberJ opportllnitiesfor -haring disseminating and archiving peer-reviewed research resllltsfostering qJJality edllcation and lIaining in nutrishytion uphoMing standards for ethical bebavior in rmarch the protection of hllman sllbject and the care and treatment of rescarci) animals providing opportllllilleJforfellowship and support among nlltrillonisls bringing knowledge to bear on nlltrition isstles throllgh comlllllnication and injlJlCnce in the public domain Presidem John W Erdman J r Division of Nutritional Sciences University of Illinois UrbanaIL Execu tive Director Richard G Allison PhD Membe rship 3474 Publica tions journal of NlltrillofJ N lltnlIon Notes - quarterly

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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2001 Meetin g Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The American Association of ImmunologistsshyAAI Founded June 19 19 13 Member o f FASEB since 1942 Missio n The AAI is an association of professiollalb trailled scienlisls dedicalshyed 10 advancing the kllowledge of immllnology and ils related disciplines jostershying the illterchallges of ideas and information among imJestigators and addressshying tbe potential integratioll of immllnologic principles lilto clinicalpractice AAI serves ils 1le111bm by provldilJg a cellterfo r Ibe dimminaion of infOmashytzon relevant to Ibe jield and its practices sllcb as edllcatlonal alld professional opportunities sciwafic Jeetings membership deril)cd issues and opilions and Illportant focial and political isslles President James E Allison PhD HHMI University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA Executive Director M Michele Hogan PhD Membership 6500 Publicatio ns The JOllrnal of Immllnology He]I On-u ne (www jimmunoLorg) shybimonthly AAI N ellsletter - 6 times a year AAI homepage wwwaaiorg 200 1 Meet ing Annual Meeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April 4

Biophysical Society-BPS Founded February 5 1958 Member o f FASE B since 1992 Mission The plllpose of the Biopbysical society is to encowage deveopeJl alld dissellliJlatzon of kJlowledge in biopbysics Presiden t Mary Dicky Barkley PhD Departme nt of Chemistry Case Western Rese rve University Cleveland Ohio Executive Director Rosalba Kampman Membership 6497 Pub li catio ns Biopb)icalJOllmal Biopbysical Societ) NeJllsetter - bimonthly 2001 Meeting 45th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Boston MA February 17-21

American Association of Anatomists-AAA Founded September 17 1888 Member of FASEB since 1993 Miss io n Tbe plllpoJe of the AUOClaioll shall be Ihe advallcemenl of allalOlllishycal sciel1ces President John Fallon PhD D epartment o f AnatOmy Cniversity of Wisconsin Madison V Executive Director Andrea PendletOn

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Mem bersh ip 1700 Publications DelJelopmenlal D)namicJ The Anatolllical Record The 1 Anatomisl AAA Newsletter 2001 Meeting Annual iI-reeting with Experimental Biology 2001 Orlando FL March 31-April4

The Protein Society Founded Februry 11 1986 Member of FASEB since 1995 Mission The purpose of the Jocie) is to prolide a jomm to faCliitale COmJlillshynicatiOlJ cooperation ad collaJoratzon 1b I~speci to all aJ-peclJ of the siNd] of proteins In order to carry Ollt iI)is pNrpoJe the Sociefj sball spolISor ational alld illternational Dnposia Nsefllio Ihose ellgaged in the slllt of proeillS and to be attended b) botl) its melllbers alld other individuals mgaged ill sillrilar endeaJon The Society aJvards several prizes il1 tbe area of protein science President William DeGrado PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA Exec utive Directo r Robert V Newburgh PhD Membersh ip 2800 Publica tions Prolein SciClce Newsletter - in the journal 2001 Meeti ng 15th Symposium - Philadelphia PA July 28-August 1

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research-ASBMR Founded 1977 Member of FASEB since 1997 Mission The ASBMR is a professiollal scientijic al1d medical sociely establlsbed to prallole excclellce ill bone alld lIIineral researcb to foster inlegrashytzon qf basic and clinical science alld to fadilate the Iranslation of Ibal sciellce to heallb care and clinical practice K~ olyectzves 10 acbicI)e these goaL incillde the IIlIrluring and det-~opllflll of jiliNre lt~lIIerations of baJic and clinical scienshytlsls alld Ihe dissemination of J1e1l knowledge In bOle alld mineral fIIetabolism The ASBMR is proactive in sbapillg rmarch and healtl) pollcieJ based all Jciellshytiftc advallces ill ollrjieM President Robert Marcus 1110 Eu Lilly Corpo ration USMD Endoc rinology Indianapolis IN Exec utive Director Joan K Goldberg Membership 3600 Publications Journal of Bone and Milleral Research Pliltler on Ihe Melabolic Balle DiJftlSts and Disordcl) 0

Milleral lietaboliJIII ASBMRneJN 2001 Meeting 23rd An nual Meeting of the ASBMR Phoenix AZ October 12-1 6

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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American Society fo r Clinical InvestigationshyASCI Fou nded 1908 Me mber of FAS EB since 1998 Mission The ASCI iJ all honor Jociety compoJed of physician-JcientiJtJ represhyJellting all diJciplineJ of medical Jcience Membm are eleded bmed IIpon the quality and impact of Iheir rnearch and their overall contributionJ to the biomedical rmarch community The Society Jeeks partietlarly to recogllize pbyJishycian-JcientiJlJ doing no~1 ereati~ rigorOIlJ and reprodllcible rnearch baled on a Jolidjoundation of Jcience and likely to Jtand the tnt of hlne The ASCI iJ organized and operated exclllsivel)Jor edllcahimal and Jcientijic purpoJeJ In jiITshyIhering Ihne aimJ the Jociety conveneJ an annllalmeeting and pbliJheJ Ihe journal of Clinical Investigation bOlh of wbich highlighl high-impact IPork from a broad range of diJciplineJ Preside nt D avid G insburg MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Ann Albo r MI Executive Directo r John B Hawley Membe rsh ip 2600 Publication The jOllrnal of Clinical InwJtigation 2001 Meet ing Chicago IL April 27-29

The E ndocrine Society-TES Founded 1916 Member of FAS EB since 1999 Miss io n Since ilJ illCeptioll in 1916 The Endocrine Society hm IPolked 10 proshy1II0te excellence in rmarch edlleation and tbe clinical practice of doerinology Wilh almoJI 10000 membm from over 80 cOllnlrieJ The Endocrine Society iJ Ibe worldJ orgUI and mOJI actiw organization devoted to the rnearch sllld) and clinical prachmiddotce of endocrinology Together Ihue JcienliJIJ edcalon clillicianJ practicing ifDJ nllrJeJ and JllldenlJ Ipbo make liP Ihe O1gallizationJ membenhip reprmnl all basic applied alld clinical inlereJIJ in endocrinology President Wi Uiam F Crowley J r MD Massachusetts General Hos pital Bos ton iA Executive Director Scott B Hunt Membership 10550 Pub lica ti ons E ndoClinology The jOllrnal of Clinical Endocrinology and Melabohjm Endocrine ~vieuJ - bimonthly Moleclliar E JldocnmiddotJlolog) 2001 Meetings Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Research lVIiami FL March 5-7 EN D O 01 (83rd Annua l Meeti ng) Denver CO June 20-23 Clinical E ndocrinology Update Chicago IL October 7-1 0

T he American Society of Human GeneticsshyASH G Founded 1948 Mem be r of FASEB since 1999 Missio n The American Sociel) of Hllman GeneticJ JerWJ reJearch JcienhslJ beallh profeuionalJ and Ihe pllblic hy enabling itJ members 10 Jhare mearcb reJIIIIJ al anllllalllleehllgJ and pllbllsh in Ihe American jOllrnal of H llman Genehmiddotc advallce genehe ruearch hy advocatillgJor ruearch JIIpport enhaner geneliCJ edllcation hy prepan-tgjtlillre profeJsionals atld inJonning Ihe public proshymolegmetic services and JIIpport responsible Jocial and Jcimtiftc polieieJ

President P Michael Conneally PhD Inclia na University Medical Center Exec utive Director E laine Strass Exec utive Vice President Joann Boughman PhD Membership 7500+ Website wwwashgorg Publ ica t io ns The Amenean journal of H llman GmetiCJ Gllide to Nortb Anmican Graduale and POJgraduaie Training ProgramJ

in H llman GeneticJ Solving Ibe Pllzlte-Careerr ill GelteticJ 200 1 Meeti ng San Diego CA October 12-1 6

Society for Developmental Biology-SDB Founded 1939 Associate member of FAS EB since 1996 Full member of FAS EB since 2001 Mission The purpOJe of Ibe Society iJ 10 jllrlhltl Ihe Jltldy of dewlopmenl in allorganismJ alld 01 alllevelJ alld 10 reprmnl and promole cOlIlIunicatioll among silldenis of dewlopment President Brigid Hogan PhD Department of Cell Biology Vanderbilt Medical School Nashville TN Executive Director Ida Chow PhD Membership 2310 Website wwwsdbonlineorg Publications Developmenlal Biology - biweekJy Newsletter on website 2001 Meeting 60th SDB Annual Meeting Seattle WAJuly 18-22

American Peptide Society-APepS Founded 1990 Associate member of FASEB since 1996 Mission The PllrpOJeJ of Ihe Society are 10 advance and promole Ihe knowlshyedge of the chemiJtry and biology of pephdu and prOleinJ Pres ident Murray Goodman PhD UCSD Chemistr y amp Biochemistry La Jolla CA Membe rship 1000 Pub licatio ns The jOllrnal of Peptide ~Jearcb Pephde Science 2001 Meeting 16th American Peptide Symposium San Diego CA June 9-14

Association of Biomolecular Resource Faci lities-ABRF Fo unded 1988 Associate member of FAS EB since 1997 Mission The miJsion of the Sodel) iJ 10 promole and JIIpport motlrce jacitishytieJ reJearch laboralonmiddoteJ and individllal rmarchltlJ regarding operation reshyJearch and developmenl ill Ihe areas of melhods echmqlteJ alld inslmnlellatiOll

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reevallt to Ihe allalysis and J)IItheJis oj bioll1olecles to provide mechaniJlns jor Ihe self etJalualion alld improvemenl oj procedural and operatiollal aCC71raOI precisioJJ and efficiency in resource facilities and researe laboratories and 10 provide a mechanism for Ihe educatioll oj ruource jacility and ruearcb laborashytory slaff merI admillistrators alld inlereJied members oj the scientific commullity President Mark 0 Lively PhD Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem NC Membership 800 Website wwwabrforg Publication joumaloJ Biomolemlar Techlliques 2001 Meeting San Diego CA February 24-27

Society for the Study of Reproduction- SSR Founded 1967 Associate member of FAS EB since 1998 Mission Tbe musioll oj Ibe Sotiety is 10 proll1ole Ibe slud) oj reproduction bJ foslering inlerdistiplinal) communication al1Jong scientiJls bolding conjmllces alld publisbing merilorious JIldies

President Geula Gibori PhD Department of Physiology amp Biophysics University of Illinois ChicagoIL

Membership 2921 Publications Biology oj Reproductioll Biology oj Reproduction Online Biology oj Reproduction MOllograph Senes 1 Equine Reproduction VI SSR NCllJJletler

2001 Meeting 34th Annual Meeting Ottawa Ontario Canada July 28-August 1

Teratology SOciety Founded 1961 Associate member of FASEB since 1998 Mission The objectilJe oj Ihe Teratology Society is 10 promole rmarch and Ihe exchange oj ideas and research rUIIIls Ihal reveal Ihe CaNUS improve Ihe diagnoshysis and trealment and preventlhe ocmrrence oj abnol71lal developmenl and birlh dejects 10 COlllllllll1icale that informatiollto physitians public heallh officialsconshycemed heallh advocacy alld lay grollps alld olher interuled parties tbal prolllote Ibe eliminatioll oj birlh dejecis Ivhen possible and amelioralion oj Ibem lim en thv occtlr and to promde educatiol1 alld training on the causes IfIcchamJms treatment andpreJCI1hon oj birtb dejects

President JM Friedman Membersh ip 750 Publications Teralology Newsletter - 3 times a year

2001 Meeting 41 st Annual Meeting Montreal Quebec Canada June 23-28

Radiation Research Society-RRS Fou nded 1952 Associate Member of FAS EB since 2000 Mission The pllrpose oj Ihe SoCety is 10 pr01ll0le oligillaIesearch ill the nalural

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stimm relatillg 10 radiation to jaClitate cooperative rmarcb among the disashyplillef oj pl)sics cbenulI) biologJl alld neditille ill Ihe study oj Ihe propertieJ alld effects oj radiatioll alld to prol)ole the diffusioll oj kllOJvledge in Ibese and relatedfields Ihrougb its officialpublicahon anllllal meetillgs and olber media oj information exchange Presiden t James B Mitchell PhD National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD Membership 1770 Website wwwradresorg Publication Radiatioll Researcb

2001 Meeting 48th Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society San Juan Puerto Rico April 21-25

Society for Gynecologic Investigation- SGI Founded 1952 Associate Member of FASEB Since 2000 iVl lssion To prolllole excelence ill reproductive saences throllgh research edllcation and adlocaO President Sherman Elias MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Illinois-Chicago Chicago IL Execu tive Director Ava A Tayman Membership 1004 Website wwwsocgyninvorg Pu blica tion joumal ojlhe Sotiet)jor Gylecologic ImJfstigatioll 2001 Meeting Toronto Canada March 14-1 7

Environmental Mutagen Society-EMS Founded 1969 Associate member of FASEB since 2001 Mission The EnmiOnlllCllta Mlltagen Societ) (EMS) is Ibe pril101y scientific sotiety josteting research 011 Ibe basic lIIecbanislIIs oj lIIutagettesis as lVell af 011 the application oj tbis kl101I4edge in thefield oj genetic loxicgy EMS has selien core scientific conlenl areas Tbese are 1 ExpoJllre detection and melabomiddot lislJl oj DNA damaging agents 2 RespOllfef 10 DNA damage (DiVA repair and recolllbillation changes ill gelle expreJsion cel cycle effects) 3 Mlliational mechanisms (spolltaneom and exposllre relaled) 4 DNA technologies 5 Molemlor epidetlllologJ 6 Human beallh effects (developmenlal cancel aging gel1etic disease) 7 Applicatiol1J leshilg regulatol) iJJlles and risk assessmel1t

PreSident David DeMarini U SEPA Research Triangle Park NC

Executive Director Tonia Masson Membersh ip 750 Website wwwems-usorg Publications Environ1llenlal alld Molemlar Mlltagenesis - 8 times a year Newsletter - published 2 times year

2001 Meeting 32nd EMS Annual Meeting San Diego CA March 16-21

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