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Harvard's School of Public Health is establishing a multi-million dollar clearinghouse for AIDS research under the wing of the National Institute of Health (NIH), University and NIH officials said this week...
...NIH will fund the center with a five-year grant of about $38.6 million, said Leslie Fink, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Allergies and Infections Diseases, the NIH division overseeing the project. Fink said NIH chose Harvard from a national competition...
...National Institutes of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci and inviting more than 25 groups, from gay activists to the Southern Baptist Convention, to his office. He wrote 26 drafts at the stand-up desk in the basement of the brick house he rents on the campus of the NIH. He numbered the copies he took to a meeting at the White House and collected all of them to prevent leaks. The next day, Oct. 22, 1986, he released the report at a packed press conference; 16 million copies of the report and 107 million copies of an AIDS pamphlet...
...February 1988 report by the prestigious ; National Research Council enthusiastically endorsing a project that would first map and interpret important regions of the genome, then -- as better technology became available -- proceed to reading the entire genetic message. Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap it down if it becomes a monster...
Even before the Human Genome Project was begun by the NIH, others were deeply involved in probing the genome. Building on a long-standing program of research on DNA damage caused by radiation, biologist Charles DeLisi in 1987 persuaded the Energy Department to launch its own genome program. In addition to the sequencer and computer-hardware engineering projects, Energy Department scientists are focusing their attention on mapping seven complete chromosomes...