{"id":21118,"date":"2025-01-29T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:26:06","slug":"n-i-h-trials-and-essential-hiring-may-continue-acting-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21118","title":{"rendered":"N.I.H. Trials and Essential Hiring May Continue, Acting Director Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health and at organizations it funds may continue, and patients may still travel to trial sites to participate in research, despite the Trump administration’s restrictions on travel and communications, the acting director of the N.I.H., Dr. Matthew Memoli, said in an email to staff on Monday.<\/p>\n

While Dr. Memoli\u2019s announcement provided some clarification, it left many questions unanswered. Communications staff at the N.I.H. did not pick up the phone or respond to emails requesting additional information.<\/p>\n

Dr. Memoli\u2019s note emphasized that critical purchases for needed laboratory supplies and any contracting required \u201cfor anything directly related to human safety, human or animal health care, security, biosafety, biosecurity or I.T. security,\u201d could continue.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the email said, essential purchases and contracting needed to sustain research experiments that started before to Jan. 20 could be made \u201cso that this work can continue, and we do not lose our investment in these studies,\u201d Dr. Memoli said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He described the pause imposed on mass communications and public appearances as \u201cshort\u201d and said it did not apply to anything \u201cdirectly related to emergencies or critical to preserving health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists may also continue to meet to discuss ongoing research that was initiated before Jan. 20, as long as \u201cit does not involve public release of information or presentation of data outside of those individuals who are part of the research or facilitation\/funding of that research,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n

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Clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health and at organizations it funds may continue, and patients may still travel to trial sites to participate in research, despite the Trump administration’s restrictions on travel and communications, the acting director of the N.I.H., Dr. Matthew Memoli, said in an email to staff on Monday.While Dr. Memoli\u2019s announcement provided some clarification, it left many questions unanswered. Communications staff at the N.I.H. did not pick up the phone or respond to emails requesting additional information.Dr. Memoli\u2019s note emphasized that critical purchases for needed laboratory supplies and any contracting required \u201cfor anything directly related to human safety, human or animal health care, security, biosafety, biosecurity or I.T. security,\u201d could continue.Likewise, the email said, essential purchases and contracting needed to sustain research experiments that started before to Jan. 20 could be made \u201cso that this work can continue, and we do not lose our investment in these studies,\u201d Dr. Memoli said.He described the pause imposed on mass communications and public appearances as \u201cshort\u201d and said it did not apply to anything \u201cdirectly related to emergencies or critical to preserving health.\u201dScientists may also continue to meet to discuss ongoing research that was initiated before Jan. 20, as long as \u201cit does not involve public release of information or presentation of data outside of those individuals who are part of the research or facilitation\/funding of that research,\u201d the memo said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21120,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21121,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions\/21121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}