Word: mgh
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Legislation that would allow Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, to build a $60-million genetic engineering laboratory without a public hearing, has passed the state House of Representatives and is under consideration by the Senate...
...MGH must complete the laboratory by April 1 to be eligible for a $60-million grant from Hoechst-Roussel, a German chemical corporation. But an aide to the bill's sponsor said yesterday that the usual public hearing process can take more than a year...
Hoechst-Roussel offered in June to bankroll the MGH laboratory in return for rights to manufacture and distribute any products resulting from research in the new building...
Despite the April 1 deadline, which Hoechst-Roussel set in June as part of the grant stipulation, a spokesman for the state Public Health Commission (PHC) said Monday MGH has not yet applied for permission to build the laboratory...
...spokesman for the Community Affairs office said yesterday that Harvard has not actively lobbied for the bill, and Martin Bander, director of public relations for MGH, said Sunday he hadn't heard of the bill...