Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cohen then went to the NIH in December, 1975. His statements launched an investigation that led to Harvard's refund of $132,000 in grant money the following year...
...start of the audit was the culmination of a bizarre series of events resulting in Harvard's reimbursement of $132,000 in federal funds to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funds had been misspent in the school's Department of Nutrition...
...federal funds in the Medical School and the School of Public Health began in 1975, when Dr. Phin Cohen, a researcher and assistant professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health since 1969, was not reappointed to his position. Cohen's salary was based on two NIH grants that he obtained in 1971, but which Harvard allegedly used to pay some expenses not related to the researcher's projects...
...many ways, the battle over recombinant DNA regulation begins and ends in Cambridge. In the early 70s, as recombinant DNA technology rapidly developed, scientists began to consider the potential risks of genetically combining organisms with different characteristics. Scientists petitioned the NIH, the federal agency that funds most scientific research, to develop a set of guidelines for recombinant DNA research. When Harvard proposed to build the $600,000 special research laboratory three years ago, then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci heard about the recombinant DNA safety debate and questioned whether scientists should be allowed to perform recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge...
...Cambridge ordinance, still in effect today, follows the guidelines established in 1976 by NIH, adding a Cambridge Biohazards Committee to review all recombinant DNA experiments and to monitor the safety precautions...