FDA, NIH create 14 centers to do tobacco research (AP)

[BigBen2k]

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are awarding millions in funding to create 14 centers to conduct research on tobacco products.
Officials said Thursday that the agencies have awarded up to $53 million for fiscal 2013 for the tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science, mostly at universities around the country.
The centers can eventually receive more than $273 million over the next five years for research on marketing of tobacco products, adverse health consequences, ways to reduce addiction and toxicity, as well as so-called modified risk tobacco products.
The federal agencies say the centers will help shape regulations on tobacco products with the aim of protecting the public health and reducing the death and disease caused by tobacco use.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130919/us-fda-tobacco-research/

 

[ClippinWings]

Who wants to Bet that Stanton Glantz (University of California, San Francisco) and Prue Talbot (University of California, Riverside) got $$?

Worse yet, that they will be doing important "research" on eCigarettes.

 

[Petrodus]

Who wants to Bet that Stanton Glantz (University of California, San Francisco) and Prue Talbot (University of California, Riverside) got $$?

Worse yet, that they will be doing important "research" on eCigarettes.

They're both prostitutes ... No Freebies

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

They are both excellent at statistical analysis, the kind that pays the most for the results you need.

 

[AgentAnia]

They are both excellent at statistical analysis, the kind that pays the most for the results you need.

Their motto:

 

[AgentAnia]

Sooooo.... Let me see if I've got this straight.... They're going to spend gazillions (of our tax money) to create these centers to

....help shape regulations on tobacco products with the aim of protecting the public health and reducing the death and disease caused by tobacco use.

Is that before or after they actually ISSUE REGULATIONS in, like, maybe, this coming October?

 

[ClippinWings]

Sooooo.... Let me see if I've got this straight.... They're going to spend gazillions (of our tax money) to create these centers to



Is that before or after they actually ISSUE REGULATIONS in, like, maybe, this coming October?

No... it'll take longer than october... this will be for the REAL nasty regulations in the coming years.

But the translation I think, is actually:

They are spending our tax money to fund these centers that will help shape regulations that will give them the ability to collect more tax revenue to fund these centers

#FollowTheMoney

 

[AgentAnia]

Suggested alternate use for that $53 million: FDA buys $53-million worth of ecigs and gives every smoker a 6-month supply. (Haven't worked out the math but you get the drift...) (And the univ. researchers can go research something else, like finding a cure for obsessive control fanatics.)

And since the federal fiscal year is just about over and the $$ have already been handed out, why have they waited so long to announce this?
Lots going on behind the scenes, eh?

 

[ClippinWings]

As Feared

Comprised of scientists with expertise in fields including epidemiology, behavior, biology, medicine, economics, chemistry, toxicology, addictions, public health, communications, and marketing, the TCORS program is the centerpiece of the FDA/NIH collaboration to foster research relevant to tobacco regulatory science. New research from TCORS will help inform and assess the impact of FDA’s prior, ongoing and potential future tobacco regulatory activities implemented by CTP under the direction of Mitch Zeller, J.D. In addition, the TCORS investigators will have the flexibility and capacity to begin new research to address issues raised in today’s rapidly evolving tobacco marketplace.
TCORS proposals were selected for funding based on their scientific and technical merit as determined by NIH scientific peer review, availability of funds, and relevance of the proposed projects to program priorities.

The 14 TCORS have been awarded to:


Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D., and Rose M. Robertson, M.D., American Heart Association, Dallas
Pamela I. Clark, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Thomas E. Eissenberg. Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Michael P. Eriksen, Ph.D., Georgia State University, Atlanta
Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., University of California-San Francisco
Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D., University of Vermont and State Agriculture College, Burlington
Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D., and Caryn Lerman Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Ph.D., and Stephanie S. O’Malley, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven
Joshua E. Muscat, Ph.D., and Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D., Penn State College of Medicine/Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
Mary Ann Pentz, Ph.D., and Jonathan Samet, M.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Cheryl L. Perry, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston
Kurt M. Ribisl, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter G. Shields, M.D., and Mary Ellen Wewers, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus
Robert Tarran, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine.

Source

Anyone know anything about the other grant recipients?

 

[Uma]

Notice how the innuendo here? If you want the grant money, then you better be a smirker of modified tobacco products.
(Hehe, but the last laugh is on them and their stickie cigs, chewy cigs, ... Right? Right!!)

The centers can eventually receive more than $273 million over the next five years for research on marketing of tobacco products, adverse health consequences, ways to reduce addiction and toxicity, as well as so-called modified risk tobacco products

 

[Train2]

I want my GD tax money back.

 

[Uma]

Suggested alternate use for that $53 million: FDA buys $53-million worth of ecigs and gives every smoker a 6-month supply. (Haven't worked out the math but you get the drift...) (And the univ. researchers can go research something else, like finding a cure for obsessive control fanatics.)

And since the federal fiscal year is just about over and the $$ have already been handed out, why have they waited so long to announce this?
Lots going on behind the scenes, eh?

I do believe they have finally released the hush hush report from that " listening meeting" held with the ANTZ.

 

[Petrodus]

I want my GD tax money back.

You're just being silly ...
They don't give a GD what you want

 

[ennagizer]

I think some research money should be granted for doing research on the people who do tobacco research to make sure their research is researched and their research was researched properly. Then regulate the researchers to make sure their research adheres to certain research standards. And, after all the researching, research it some more to make sure it's been researched enough. Capisce?

 

[AgentAnia]

And they'd better research the researchers who are writing the regulations covering the researchers who research tobacco, and for that matter, some other researches had better research the regulations themselves to be sure they've been researched properly.

 

[ClippinWings]

My issue is not research... I just wish Stanton Glantz would search in the first place.

 

[ennagizer]

And they'd better research the researchers who are writing the regulations covering the researchers who research tobacco, and for that matter, some other researches had better research the regulations themselves to be sure they've been researched properly.

I knew there was something about you I liked

 

[AgentAnia]

I knew there was something about you I liked

Well thank you! It's the humidity down here, dontcha know. That and the nicotine. Keeps me, well, ennagized!

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

They are both excellent at statistical analysis, the kind that pays gets paid the most for the results you need.

Edit to make sense, teach me to post and run.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

If something is dubious add "Science" to it to give it credence. Regulation is not science. At best it is (social) engineering, though I suppose it could be based on findings in science, perhaps pseudo-science. I prefer to think of sciences as the traditional, hard sciences and not the wannabe so-called modern, social-based sciences that tend towards providing observations for administrators to cherry-pick and use to form policy.

The only way to benefit from "Regulatory Science" is for you, or some who you may be allied with to find a way to play it. Obviously, some in academia and government have done so. There are also some interests in the e-cig community playing to benefit along these lines... Be wary...