The National Institutes of Health says it has cut off all funding for work in Russian labs -- including one that debilitated cats and then made them walk on a treadmill -- as it seeks to comply with President Biden's executive orders.
Mr. Biden last year ordered a halt to U.S. money going to Russian research in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade neighboring Ukraine.“NIH currently does not fund any research in Russia,” the organization’s Office of Extramural Research said in a statement to The Washington Times.
Researchers “decerebrated” cats — removed part of their brain — then put them on a treadmill and hooked them to electrodes. Scientists then delivered electrical stimulation to prompt the cats to move. U.S. funding for overseas labs has drawn new scrutiny in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with some experts concluding the virus leaked from a Chinese lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that was doing risky research that was partly funded by American taxpayers.
USASpending.gov, for example, says the Pavlov Institute cats project was funded through May 2022, or a month before Mr. Biden’s shutdown directive. But NIH’s grant reporting system says the project was budgeted through the end of May 2023.All told, USASpending shows about $7 million in “subawards” — work farmed out by the main grantees, as Georgia Tech did to the Pavlov Institute — went to Russia from fiscal 2018 to the present.
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