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Update (December 6): HHS has issued a statement declaring that the information from the anonymous sources in the Post’s article is inaccurate. “No decision has been made on the extension of a University of California San Francisco contract with the NIH regarding research involving fetal tissue,” the statement reads. “No contracting official would have had the authority to impart any communication to UCSF that the contract was being cancelled because no decision has been made.”
The National Institutes Health last week in a phone call told the principal investigator of a University of California, San Francisco, HIV research lab that it would not renew the facility’s contract for next year, The Washington Post reports, citing a virologist familiar with the matter. The investigator is therefore preparing to close the lab.
The newspaper is keeping the identity of the lab anonymous because of threats it has ...
