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Approximately 80 percent of the cancer research funds come from government sourees, namely the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Cancer Society. Industry and other private sources provide the remainder of the funds...
Darcee's fraud in 1981 prompted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to demand that the hospital return some $122,000 in government research grants. NIH also prohibited Darsee from using any Health and Human Services funding until 1991, the most stringent punishment ever imposed by the institute...
...toward that end is now moving swiftly. Researchers in Geneva and Melbourne have been so successful in identifying antigens of the merozoite that they plan to begin animal tests of the vaccine by the end of the year. A gametocyte vaccine is being developed by Dr. Richard Carter at NIH, but much work remains to be done. An experimental vaccine for all three stages may be only a decade away, according to Pathologist Sydney Cohen of Guy's Hospital medical school in London. "If it is very effective," he says, "malaria eventually will be eradicated like smallpox...
...turning down awards," says A. Simone Reagor, associate director for research administration, whose office negotiates all faculty proposals and sponsored research offers. While most of the 2000 contracts per year flow through the office smoothly--particularly those coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH)--about 25 a year must be renegotiated to meet the Faculty of Arts and Science's relatively stiff policy on acceptances...
...Defense Department-sponsored research makes up less than 25 percent of Harvard's (including the Medical School) $106 million total budget from externally funded research grants and contracts. The majority comes from NIH ($67 million) and NSF ($14 million) awards. Even in the rare case of a loss of all Department of Defense monies, Harvard research funding as a whole would not decrease significantly...