Blogs

Michael Lauer is the National Institutes of Health Deputy Director for Extramural Research, serving as the principal scientific leader and advisor to the NIH Director on the NIH extramural research program. In October 2015, Dr. Lauer launched the Extramural Nexus Open Mike Blog with the stated goal of “Helping connect you with the NIH perspective, and helping connect us with yours.”

The blog topics are wide ranging from changes to forms and applications and proposed changes to human study regulations to reproducibility of scientific research.

The blog is updated frequently and moderated comments are welcome and posted.