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...allegations concerned four National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totalling $5.5 million, that were awarded to Harvard from 1994 to 1999. The grants were intended to be used for research on aging at Beth Israel, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate, HMS Associate Dean for Public Affairs Donald L. Gibbons said...
...beginning of this academic year Harvard Medical School received $45 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a new biodefense research center. The facility will initially house nine research projects working to develop vaccines and treatments for anthrax, SARS, botulism, West Nile virus, and other of the world’s most dangerous pathogens...
...year before the terrorist attacks, Harvard received $348 million of federal funding. Last year, by contrast, research projects at the University brought in a total of $412 million. Casey points out however, that other factors, such as a planned increase in the grant budget of the NIH, likely helped drive these gains...
...says her research indicates that the new rivers of federal money flowing into higher education may actually be working to sink the national-security boat—in part because the NIH, through which most funds are funneled, lacks a system for ensuring that projects are relevant, unique, and ultimately worthwhile...
...Well, yes and no. Two years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...