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Lawrence Bogorad, professor of Biology, said the cut will "affect the way in which people can be trained in science," since many Ph.D. candidates receive critical training from NIH-funded research projects. He emphasized that "we're not likely to be affected in terms of simply supporting them...
...loss is due to a cut in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and the effect of inflation...
...NIH, which last year reduced its grants by 10 per cent, administers health research and basic science projects across the nation. It supplies approximately two-thirds of the funds of Harvard's Institute of Public Health and the Medical School...
That was in 1965. Now in recent issues of both the A.M.A. Journal and the British journal Lancet, teams from NIH and Columbia University have reported that, contrary to prevailing medical opinion, both infectious and serum hepatitis are probably caused by a single virus. That virus appears to be identical with the Australia antigen...
...prove the point, Dr. Richard J. Hirschman and his colleagues at NIH went back to an old and seemingly cold trail. In 1952-54, a study was made of hemophilia patients who contracted serum hepatitis from injections of an infected blood-clotting factor. The researchers took weekly blood samples but did not find the culprit; so they deep-froze the samples and stored them. In 1968 the 15-year-old samples were thawed out and tested for the Australia antigen. The viruslike particle was found in the blood of 46 (or 74%) of the patients...