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Because of late and inaccurate grant reports, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last month began to withdraw Harvard's authority to handle alterations to certain classes of grants, according to a memo recently sent to some faculty members...
...Allen Proctor, vice president for finance, said yesterday that the NIH withdrew its threat three days ago after he negotiated a plan to improve Harvard's performance...
...would be a significant loss," said Diana Jaeger, an employee in the Grants Policy Office at NIH. "There are no other institutions where the NIH has withdrawn expanded authority...
...drugs. All lived away from hospital supervision and were said to be monitored weekly. However, the experiment was envisioned to follow patients with "continuing psychotic symptoms" and especially sought out those in "relative remission" with "a potential for demonstrating a relapse." In a letter to UCLA in April, the NIH's Office for Protection from Research Risk demanded verification that human subjects were no longer involved in that experiment. It has been discontinued...
Despite the unexpected result, Dr. Basil M. Rifkind, senior scientific advisor to the division of vascular disease at HIH, said Sacks' study would not alter the NIH recommendations...