June 11, 1999

Head of NIH Seeks to Move Unit That Oversees Research With Human Subjects

By PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELL

Harold E. Varmus, the director of the National Institutes of Health, announced last week that he would recommend that the Office for Protection from Research Risks be moved from his agency to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the N.I.H.

The status of the office is important to university scientists and research officials because it insures that campuses and the N.I.H. follow government rules that protect human

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