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...many scientists, the National Institutes of Health and WARF plan to meet this week to establish guidelines to accommodate the deluge of researchers who are expected to want access to stem cells. "I'm pretty confident that we can craft an agreement," says Maria Freire, head of the NIH's Office of Technology Transfer. "It's in everybody's best interest...
...Here?s what I knew. I knew that I sat down with the NIH experts, people charged to follow the developments in this field. And their opinion, upon which I based my judgment, was that there are ample stem cell lines to determine whether future research is merited...
...years since, Fauci has set a frenetic pace, often working an 80-hour week. He runs NIAID with a hands-on style and, as former NIH director Harold Varmus once commented, "an iron fist." With Fauci at the helm, NIAID's annual budget soared from $320 million in 1984 to $2.4 billion this year. He has already won over new Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who calls Fauci "one of the most passionate HIV/AIDS researchers in the world today...
...more than an excellent administrator, Fauci modestly admits to "wearing several hats." He helps design and oversees large clinical trials of experimental AIDS drugs, conducts research in his own institute laboratory, publishes reams of scientific papers, makes weekly rounds of AIDS patients at an NIH clinical center and travels the world to spread the gospel of AIDS prevention and treatment. "It's almost as if I were trained for this epidemic," says Fauci, who earned a medical degree from Cornell and has specialized in infectious diseases and immunology...
...Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is still consulted by Thompson's office on stem-cell issues but wasn't contacted directly by the White House for last week's decision. (Ironically, Thomson is the lead plaintiff in a case titled Thomson v. Thompson, seeking to force NIH to underwrite stem-cell research...