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...swish of his pen, President Barack Obama reversed one of the most controversial Executive Orders in recent history. In front of the country's leading scientific minds, including Dr. Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, and Dr. Harold Varmus, former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a science adviser to the Administration, Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research put in place by then President George W. Bush in 2001. Obama's new Executive Order allows scientists to apply for government grants to study...
...assure you it isn't. In 2003 she published a study involving embryonic stem cells in the journal Science. The paper appeared online at noon one day, and within a few hours, she received an e-mail from a congressional staffer containing an exhaustive list of all her NIH grants and asking which had been used to support that study. "It was my first realization about how closely the government was watching," she says...
...That just shows you how things you would never anticipate—dozens of researchers all of the sudden being more prudent—affect the bottom line of the hospital,” Levy said. He said that this loss might be counteracted by an increase in NIH funding, pledged as part of Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because of the financial crisis. Some of the decrease resulted from a new policy that no longer allows emergency room diversions to Beth Israel from...
...Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine who works at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, where he said stem cell research must occur in a specific room renovated by non-federal dollars. Under current law, stem cell researchers must be exceedingly careful to ensure that nothing funded by the NIH contributes in any way to embryonic stem cell research, forcing researchers to purchase duplicate sets of expensive equipment and laboratory supplies or create separate facilities, such as those at the Joslin Center. “It’s been very inhibiting,” Weir said of the federal...
...spent, according to a memo distributed to Harvard faculty and administrators last month. The scale of the federal funding allotted for the sciences reflects the Obama administration’s understanding that university-based research plays an important role in driving long-term economic growth and development. Neither the NIH nor the NSF provided comment regarding the timeline for allocating the funds yesterday. The decision depends on further instruction from Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, an NSF spokesperson said. Last year, University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of bolstering the NIH...