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Sponsored by Rep. Robert A. Roe (D-N.J.), and since cosponsored by 80 representatives, the bill proposes to establish a center within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gather and disseminate information on non-animal research and testing methods such as mathematical models, isolated organisms, and computer simulations...
Furthermore, it would redirect between 30 and 50 per cent of federal funds for animal research to the development of alternative methods. The NIH, the principal government agency administering funds for biomedical research, granted $2 billion to more than 500 institutions for such research in 1980. An estimated three-quarters of this involved animal research...
...Animal research that we consider necessary is not going to get done," Dr. Ronald Hunt, director Animal Resources and professor of Comparative Zoology, said. Faculty at the Medical School received $28 million in NIH funds for animal research last year...
...Alternatives are something that should be studied," Paul Lenz, staff assistant in the NIH Office of Extramural Research and Training, said, "but they cannot replace studies in a whole living animal." He noted that the NIH has worked on developing alternative approaches for as long as it has been in existence, but added, "Right now those alternatives are in the dear distant future...
...does achieve its ends" in cutting inflation, increasing the Gross National Product, "and building a generally stronger economy, so that there will be money to give to places like Harvard." Yet at the same time, University financial officers will have to use shortfalls in funding from the NSF, the NIH and elsewhere to drum up individual donations. "If we can make a case to private contributors that we have been hurt in enough areas, perhaps we can encourage support in spite of the tax problems," Coddington says...