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Pages 193-198

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From page 193...
... This National Academies committee envisions that the majority of an advisory committee's members will be technical experts who can advise on scientific and research management issues. Community members selected to serve on the independent advisory committee are unlikely to fully reflect the range of people impacted by radiation exposures, though they would have a broad understanding of these issues or the views of these communities.
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From page 194...
... .3 According to this group, both MTA and CIF functioned well and provided grants for important independent studies related to DOE's nuclear weapons complex that advanced efforts to protect impacted communities from the adverse effects of radiation. The committee agrees with the group that MTA and CIF proved useful in the context of studies related to DOE's nuclear weapons complex, which was their specific function.
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From page 195...
... government has failed to accept responsibility for past radiation exposures and has failed to develop programs that adequately compensate all impacted communities. In addition to the impacted communities and the public, the other important audience for radiation research is the scientific community.
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From page 196...
... that is a path forward for the scientific understanding of the health effects of low levels of radiation exposure. Unlike some other efforts in radiation health, the committee's recommendations constitute a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program that is likely to span several decades.
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From page 197...
... 6.5.3 Funding Mechanisms The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a model agency for its well-documented and diverse funding mechanisms that generally fall into 8 See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer-review.htm.
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From page 198...
... RAS Initiative which aims to better understand the RAS oncogene and RAS-driven cancer development.11 The initiative, headquartered at the Frederick National Laboratory, built an open model of research collaborations across government, academia, and industry to reenergize efforts to develop RAS therapeutics. Funding mechanisms also need to promote the training and development of early-career investigators in radiation research across different disciplines (see below)
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