RePORT RePORTER In fiscal year 2014, NIH funded 164 projects that utilized fetal tissues for a total expenditure of $76 million, with our laboratory as the only NIH fetal tissue repository, being the primary resource for many of these projects
Laboratory of Developmental Biology - Ian Glass For 46 years, the Birth Defects Research Laboratory (BDRL) has been the major NIH-funded site for collection and distribution of conceptal tissues The availability of viable conceptal organs and tissues has made the Laboratory a unique and critical non-profit resource for biomedical research
NIH Policy on Research Involving Human Fetal Tissue If you believe you are using HFT in an active NIH-funded study but were not notified, please contact the IRB’s QA QI Administrator Katie Schaffenberger for assistance
How NIH ending funding for human fetal tissue research could affect . . . However, the loss of NIH funding for human fetal tissue research could affect future work "My reaction was, 'How are we going to do some of our research if we can no longer use human fetal tissue?'" she recalled to ABC News
Trump imposes new NIH funding ban on human fetal tissue . . . - Science During Trump’s first term in office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) banned NIH’s intramural scientists from conducting research using human fetal tissue, disrupting studies on HIV, cancer, and coronaviruses