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...grant was jeopardized by a delay in the government’s approval of her green card, a breast cancer researcher at Harvard last week passed through the security clearance stage, bringing her a step closer toward continuing her work funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH...
...Harvard Medical school teaching hospital received a $1 million National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to purchase high-technology imaging equipment that will be instrumental to cancer research, the hospital announced Wednesday. The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was one of 14 institutions to receive the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant, with which the hospital will install a multimodality pre-clinical imaging platform. The device—which will be used by the hospital’s Longwood Small Animal Imaging Facility (SAIF)—can perform three different types of X-ray imaging of plane sections...
...Connett also says that the substantial amount of funding Douglass received from the National Institute of Health might constitute an additional conflict of interest. “When all these grants are added together, it can be seen that Douglass brought in over $5 million dollars in NIH research funding between 1992 and 2004,” Cannett wrote in an e-mail...
...enough money,” said Reeve. Although the Harvard Stem Cell Institute has raised about $50 million from private philanthropists and foundations, it still lacks sufficient funds given the tight regulations on federal funding for stem cell research, Reeve said. “With the fallout of the NIH money, you can’t backfill that solely with private funds,” he said. Distribution of funding does not seem to be a crucial electoral issue, said Jeanne Shaheen, IOP director and moderator of the Sept. 7 debate. “My guess is that what will...
Last week researchers, concerned by the commercial hype, met once again at NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Md. While reiterating their earlier counsel on daily intake, they sought to "bring calcium down a peg or two," in the words of one, and to caution against unbridled enthusiasm. "Calcium is not a panacea for osteoporosis," declares Washington University's Dr. William Peck, who was a leader at both gatherings. "The ads promise more than calcium is going to deliver...