NIH scientist terrorized?

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Last week the Animal Liberation Front targeted an obstetrician/gynecologist who is funded by the National Institutes of Health and uses non-human primates in his research. The Associated Press linkurl:reported;http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8TCV7J03.html that Oregon Health & Science University researcher, linkurl:Miles Novy,;http://www.ohsu.edu/obgyn/novy/mncv.htm woke up last Thursday (Dec 6) to find one of his cars spray painted with the word "sadist" and another painted with the letters "A.L.F." The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack in a message sent to the AP, in which they accused Novy of the "senseless torture" of monkeys. Novy uses monkeys to study infections associated with pre-term labor. In a linkurl:statement;http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2007/oer-14.htm today, Norka Ruiz Bravo, deputy director for extramural research at the NIH, called the actions "terrorist acts," writing that Novy "was recently targeted for property damage by domestic terrorists."

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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