President’s Message 3 New Year, Familiar Challenges, and New Opportunities 3

But a new year also provides us with fresh opportunities to communicate the importance of reinvigorating the partnership between research institutions and the federal government by harmonizing and streamlining the bevy of federal regulations and compliance requirements affecting the conduct of research. [...] Harrison to be able to speak about specific content of the final version of the Uniform Guidance unless it has been published by the time of the session. [...] In the memorandum “Policy Regarding Use of Common Disclosure Forms for the “Biographical, OSTP outlines the purpose and conditions for the use of the NSTC-developed common disclosure forms by federal research funding agencies. [...] The COGR letter emphasizes that the addition of price as a factor for agencies to consider in evaluating march-in under the first two statutory criteria of Bayh-Dole unquestionably will have a chilling effect on the ability of federal funding recipients to partner with industry to commercialize federally-funded inventions. [...] A notable comment addressed in the final version of the PAPPG is the request to align the definition of the Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program (MFTRP) with CHIPS & Science.