Word: projects
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...Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...Clark said yesterday that the new program is completely separate from his decision about the counseling program. "I started to arrange this the day before I became dean this summer," said Clark, "The student services office was another project...
...panelist, Martin Delaney, the head of an AIDS information program called Project Inform, said the government should allow AIDS patients to determine for themselves what risks they are willing to accept when they take unapproved medications...
...clandestine study became public in late June after a San Francisco volunteer suffocated on his vomit after coming out of a coma ten days following his first dose of Compound Q. The FDA launched an investigation into the underground trials, which Project Inform suspended. Two other volunteers have since died, one in San Francisco and one in New York. Levin says the death of one of the San Francisco men was indirectly related to Compound Q, while the cause of the New York man's death has yet to be determined...
Some researchers raise serious doubts about the methodology of guerrilla drug tests. Project Inform is strongly criticized for bypassing an initial phase to establish Compound Q's safety before proceeding to larger, therapeutic dosages and for not having the trials reviewed by an external monitoring group. Says Jere Goyan, dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy and a former FDA commissioner: "If you get people taking these drugs willy-nilly around the country, you'll lose valuable information, and it will be at the expense of future patients...