Word: nih
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Ebert pointed out that the health budget may face further reductions from Congress. In past years, the chief supporters of the federal health program, Rep. John E. Fogarty (D-R.I.) and Sen Lister Hill (D-Ala.), have been able to push through the President's proposed NIH budget. But Fogarty died last year, and Hill, who is chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is not seeking re-election in November...
Farber, a member of the Council, conceded that he himself and other members of the committee have been frequent recipients of NIH grants. However, he insisted that Council members who apply for grants are more carefully gone over than those who are not on the council." He said that council members' applications are scrupulously examined because all Council proceedings are made public...
Farber is a member of the Council on Cancer Research. The NIH program provides for nine councils to grant funds. Each council deals with a specific area in medical research. In addition to the councils, whose members include six laymen and six experts, there are 50 study sections. The study sections make recommendations on each application to one of the councils. The council may then accpt or reject the study section's recommendation...
Later this summer the Hospital will break ground on the $9.5 million research building. In addition to the present NIH grant, the Hospital received $2,470,000 in an earlier grant from the NIH last January. The rest of the money required for construction comes from individuals, corporations, and foundations...
...fulfill the requirements set by the Surgeon General, the entire executive board of Harvard's Committee on Research Responsibility at the William James Center for the Behavioral Sciences would have to convene to review every research request of every graduate student receiving NIH funds. The executive board would be required to keep records to show that it had approved each research proposal, and, in addition, it would be obliged to make periodic inspections of each experiment to guard against any violations...