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...cells being used for the experiment, which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are on board Endeavour...
...Emily Morey-Holton, payload scientist atNASA's Ames Research Center in California,oversees all three science projects on Endeavour.The experiments on this mission are "the firstpeer-reviewed cell cultures by NIH that haveflown...
Knowing he needed help, he began collaborating with retrovirus researcher Eli Gilboa and Dr. Michael Blaese, an NIH pediatrician and expert in immunology. Over the next few years, Anderson submitted proposals for human gene-therapy trials to the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), which must approve such tests...
...Nelson Wivel, who is the head of the NIH's Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, defends the experiment. Anderson's detractors, he notes, "call him a zealot. But if it weren't for his zealotry, we probably wouldn't be doing gene therapy." Indeed, it was the ADA trial by Anderson, Blaese and Dr. Kenneth Culver that opened the floodgates for dozens of gene-therapy efforts...
...surprise, Anderson will be involved in several of them. In 1986, while he was still at the NIH, he and venture capitalist Wallace Steinberg established Genetic Therapy Inc., a biotech company in Gaithersburg, Maryland, dedicated to producing retroviral vectors. Under an arrangement with the NIH, the first of its kind, GTI would have the initial rights to technology developed in Anderson's lab in return for the NIH's receiving payments and royalties from sales of GTI products...