Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigating committees, which included a Harvard committee directed by Konrad E. Bloch, professor of Biochemistry, as well as the NIH board began looking into Thomas's research in February after a graduate student who worked in his lab reported that Thomas was conducting P-3 experiments...
Thomas's $112,000 grant was proscripted when NIH found he had failed to file a Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement (MUA) with the Institutes. Scientists conducting recombinant DNA research are required to file the written agreement and NIH must give them the go-ahead, before they can proceed with their research...
...NIH committee found the Harvard Medical School, NIH and Thomas responsible for the confusion regarding the MUA. Dr. DeWitt Stetten Jr., chairman of the Executive Recombinant DNA Committee, wrote in a June 8 letter to Thomas...
...think that in retrospect, it appears that he [Thomas] was in perfect compliance--it was just a problem involving a piece of paper," Bernard Talbot, executive secretary of executive recombinant DNA research and special assistant for intramural affairs at NIH said Friday...
Following this accusation, Leslie Dach, science associate of the Environmental Defense Fund requested more information about Thomas's work under the Freedom of Information Act. There was no MUA on file and NIH then decided to suspend Thomas's money to find out why he had been conducting research without one, Talbot said...