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Although repeal of pound seizure will reduce the number of dogs used in research laboratories, the bill will not affect the root of the problem--the continued funding of repetitive and often unnecessary experiments by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding institutions. Harvard, which receives over $40 million from NIH annually, relies almost exclusively on NIH's peer review committee (comprised solely of researchers) to screen out repetitive research proposals. In sharp contrast to experiments involving human subjects, where Harvard considers all possible risks to the subject, Dr. Hunt and Harvard's Animal Care Committee merely check...
Hunt argues the NIH peer review system is the best possible mechanism to prevent repetitive and unnecessary experiments. However, in recent years, there has been growing belief within the scientific community that scientists can no longer justify their monopoly on decisions pertaining to the scientific community...
...peer review committee will be aware of all the work being done in their field and will thus be able to prevent repetitive experiments, Barbara Orlans, President of the Scientists' Center for Animal Welfare and executive secretary of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council at NIH, says. "It takes a long time for scientific knowledge to disseminate," she explains. "Very often scientists arrive at the same answer working at different ends of the country. And then, of course, the experiment has to be repeated and validated before it will be accepted...
This year, more than $85 million will travel from Washington's offices to Cambridge's laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...
...wasn't the first time, of course, that the SPH has faced charges of misappropriation of funds. Way back in 1975, when one-time SPH faculty member Dr. Phin Cohen charged Harvard officials with actively misusing federal research funds--and then told the NIH about it--the battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort...