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Rocky Mountain Labs HIV Research Project Shut Down Over Fetal Tissue
By Eric Whitney • Dec 10, 2018
An HIV researcher says the Trump administration has shut down an HIV research project at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton that proposed using human fetal tissue.
In September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was auditing federal funding for research using fetal tissue and that it was ending its contract with the single company providing it to government researchers.
"It was at that point that the boom was lowered on us," says Dr. Warner Greene of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco.
He partnered with a researcher at the lab in Hamilton, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Greene says his partner on the project at the Hamilton, Kim Hasenkrug, told him the federal government would not allow him to get the fetal thymus and stem cell tissue he needed to conduct the research the pair started in the spring related to finding a cure for HIV.
https://www.mtpr.org/post/rocky-mountain-labs-hiv-research-project-shut-down-over-fetal-tissue>>8127078