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...Stanford University's Ron Levy pioneered the effort more than 25 years ago, demonstrating that anti-idiotype antibodies could be produced in a laboratory and used to create a vaccine for humans that would trigger an immune response. In 1999 Kwak, then working at the National Institutes of Health (nih), modified the vaccine in a way that makes it easier for the immune system to recognize. His results were striking: the vaccine eliminated the residual tumor cells left after chemotherapy in 15 of his 20 patients. Now Bendandi, who worked with Kwak at the nih, has erected what he calls...
...major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive genome-wide scan looking for 317,000 potential genetic differences...
...grant that Song received from NIH required a Sept. 1 deadline for U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residence status...
According to the NIH website, research grants “generally” do not require U.S. citizenship, but in some cases, “individuals are required to have the appropriate citizenship status when the award is made rather than when the application is submitted...
Harvard’s Director of Government Relations, Kevin Casey said that when Song did not receive her legal permanent resident status due to a hold-up in the FBI security clearance stage, the NIH gave her a two-month extension...