However, a Labour source stressed to the BBC that '’on the list’ didn’t mean ‘in talks’.' Speaking on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth declined to give specifics after being asked when Ms Gray was offered the job.īut he said Sir Keir had been looking for a new chief of staff for 'several weeks' and Ms Gray was 'always going to be on the list.' The BBC reports that she will approach the watchdog about her new job on Monday. This kind of study, also called gain-of-function research, in which scientists develop sometimes more dangerous versions of diseases to study them, has long been controversial - in the fall of 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services paused funding for the research entirely to re-evaluate policy governing which research is worth the risk.Ms Gray has now applied to the watchdog, which monitors the jobs taken by former ministers and senior mandarins, for permission to take up her new role. 27 meeting, and the materials are expected to be released ahead of time. NIH has an advisory board for biosecurity that’s expected to discuss a draft review of the agency’s oversight of this kind of research at a Jan. The Government Accountability Office’s report is a precursor to a debate that will heat up at the National Institutes of Health over the next few weeks. WASHINGTON - The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague parameters, a lack of transparency, and “does not fully meet the key elements of effective oversight,” a nonpartisan federal watchdog found in a report released Wednesday. Exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences Learn More

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