FASEB Provides Input to NASEM Study Examining Administrative Workload

By: Yvette Seger
Thursday, June 12, 2025
On June 5, FASEB submitted comments in response to a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Improving the Regulatory Efficiency and Reducing Administrative Workload to Strengthen Competitiveness and Productivity of U.S. Research seeking input on common reporting and compliance challenges faced by academic researchers. The RFI – which closed on June 6 – consisted of three questions intended to help the Committee identify the most common and broadly applicable administrative barriers faced by the academic research community.

Issues pertaining to administrative workload have been a long-standing policy focus for the FASEB community. As part of a comparable RFI issued by the National Science Board in 2013, FASEB issued a survey to determine the key administrative and regulatory pain points among biological and biomedical researchers. As noted in the comments in response to the current RFI, many of the challenges identified twelve years ago persist regardless of multiple efforts to streamline processes over the past decade.

Per its charge, the NASEM committee will produce a brief report that presents prioritized options for federal action later this year.