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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Is that the Bush Admin policy -- that if you do such research you can only do it with private money?
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Just to clarify - you can do it with government money, just not federal government money. States can fund it if they want to with state money.
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Or is the policy that if your institution does such research, even with private money, your instituion loses ALL federal funding?
This is a serious question. The difference between those two policies is enormous.
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The policy is simply that you cannot use federal funds to research ESCs except for research using the lines that already existed at the point in which the policy was enacted. Prior to that point, no federal funds could be used. During that time, the UofWi and the Johns Hopkins University developed lines using private funds while still receiving federal monies for other research.
There is no bar to using non-federal funds. This is in fact being done using the state of California money and private funds at UC institutions, which still receive plenty of NIH grants.
