Chimeras can provide better ways to test the efficacy of drugs and vaccines than existing methods, says Carrie Wolinetz,
an NIH policy official.
Not exact matches
The authors noted that broadening scientific workforce diversity has been an
official policy of the National Institutes of Health (
NIH) for decades, yet the percentage of URM scientists who hold faculty positions today is still well below their representation in the general U.S. population.
A draft
policy released today will mean that results for another 650 trials per year will be added,
NIH officials say.
Last January, White House science
officials told
NIH's parent, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to craft
policies using the criteria for what
officials now call «enhanced potential pandemic pathogens» (PPPs).
Kathy Hudson, a former National Institutes of Health (
NIH)
official who helped shape the revised rule, says she still thinks informed consent «was and is the right and respectful thing to do,» but said that the Common Rule was «a very clunky
policy instrument» for achieving that goal, and that the research community's concerns «had to be considered.»