Word: nih
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Hale Champion, financial vice president, said this week that the University was seriously compromised when auditors from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that federal grant money to the department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health had been misused and Harvard had to return $132,000 to the government...
...report on its investigation, the NIH auditing agency said that the School's department of Nutrition had billed NIH for work unrelated to the grants it was billed to. NIH got its check from Harvard in September...
Gall contrasted the tone of Monday's meeting with the situation at Harvard which he said is "blown out of all proportion." He said the danger of creating a new disease is almost zero if the NIH prohibitions on work with pathogenic, oncogenic, toxic and drug resistant bacterial strains are respected...
...want to say a second thing about containment. That is that both the NIH guidelines and a recent environmental impact draft--and indeed virtually all my colleagues in the biology department of Harvard--assure us that the principal source of contamination would be the workers moving around...
...Weedham Report, prepared at the request of the NIH, found that there have been 423 infections and three deaths in the last 25 years of operation under the most careful containment conditions at the Fort Detrick labs for study of viruses. Weedham concluded in his reports, "In the absence of effective vaccination, it is impossible to do basic research on a highly infective agent without laboratory infections...