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...proposal, a reworking of an original version presented to the council on May 19, would establish mandatory guidelines for universities conducting recombinant DNA research. The proposal would mandate compliance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) standards...
Institutions engaging in DNA research currently comply with voluntary regulations suggested by the NIH, but proponents of the proposed Council regulations have argued that legally binding regulations are needed and have warned of possible threats to public safety if no laws are passed...
After appearing at the NIH gathering and a subsequent set of hearings before the Science and Technology Committee, Lamont-Havers expresses impatience with "many deliberate misconceptions" associated with the Hoechst agreement and adds that "of course everything will be published as if there was no industrial money involved--we are still scientists first." Referring specifically to the House hearings, he says that "like anyone else, Congressmen are interested in gaining publicity when an important event occurs. That was their main motivation." After grilling Lamont-Havers, one committee member, Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) emerged from the conference room to tell...
...Pont and Hoechst agreements, the grant recipient still retains the patents for discoveries made with corporate funds, but the companies are given exclusive licenses to develop and market any products that result. One concern described in an interview by Doris Merritt, a research and training resources officer at NIH, is that private benefactors will pressure scientists to hold off on patenting their innovations--keeping them secret--until the discoveries "are fine-tuned and ready to be sold." In what has become a widely quoted warning, Merritt told the NIH conference. "Publish or perish doesn't need the corollary of patent...
...directly, only through encouraging schools to keep track of what they are getting into," says an aide to Gore. And when the emotional speeches about Faustian dilemmas give way to policy making, universities may well end up having things as they wish. Before she took her position with the NIH. Doris Merritt served as dean for research at Indiana University, and, like most government officials with an academic background, she still trusts the scientific community to be its own watch dog. "Universities have had a remarkable record in terms of regulating themselves in the past. The public and the government...