Statement of Harold Varmus, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health, before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
In this hearing, Varmus and Harriet Rabb made statements regarding the DHHS's legal decisions on funding research utilizing human stem cells, and also addressed why it would be good for NIH to oversee some of this research, rather than leaving it all to private companies. The other witnesses that day were Eric Meslin, executive director of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and Richard Doerflinger, associate director for policy development, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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