Word: nih
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...retrospect, it looks as though Harvard, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Charles A. Thomas, who was accused last December of violating the government's strict guidelines for recombinant DNA research, are all relatively innocent...
Earlier this month, NIH restored Thomas with the full use of his research money for gene splicing experiments after its investigation found "no evidence" that his lab practices were out of compliance with the NIH guidelines...
...however, believe this provision might entrust too much power to local committees, whose objectivity they question. Zimmerman noted that the local committees, which are vulnerable to pressure from local universities and scientists, approve at least 60 per cent of the projects they review. Dr. Daphne Kmely, an officer at NIH, said stopping research that is already underway is difficult, if not impossible...
...Faculty biohazards committee is comprised of one undergraduate, one graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow, a lab employee, a faculty scientist, and a community member, with Koehler as an ex-officio member. With this varied membership, Koehler says, the committee can be objective in its evaluations and enforcement of NIH regulations. However, skeptics could point to the case last year of Dr. Charles A. Thomas, then a Harvard researcher, who was accused of conducting experiments above the containment level of his lab. The alleged violation was not reported until a local citizen complained to NIH. Harvard subsequently filed a report...
Reports issued by the Med School and NIH released earlier this spring state Thomas essentially followed the NIH guidelines although he did not have NIH approval for the experiments. Thomas is now on leave in California...