{"id":1587435,"date":"2022-08-03T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587435"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:18:37","slug":"experts-call-on-congress-to-quickly-implement-new-gain-of-function-oversight-system-after-nih-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-call-on-congress-to-quickly-implement-new-gain-of-function-oversight-system-after-nih-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Call on Congress to Quickly Implement New Gain of Function Oversight System After NIH \u2018Failure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-call-on-congress-to-quickly-implement-new-gain-of-function-oversight-system-after-nih-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Experts on Aug. 3 urged Congress to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the\u00a0United States, asserting the present system is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Two Department of Health and Human Services agencies, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-national-institutes-of-health\">National Institutes of Health<\/a> (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are currently required to analyze whether proposed projects meet the definition of research \u201cinvolving enhanced potential pandemic pathogens,\u201d or pathogens that could lead to a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Projects that meet the definition are referred to a committee made up of members appointed by the health secretary, with the panel deciding whether the projects can move forward or not.<\/p>\n<p>The current system, known as the PC3O framework, is not working, the experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ebright, a laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, said that the system \u201cin principle\u201d provides for adequate oversight, but \u201cin practice largely has existed only on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the four-and-a-half years since the policy was announced, only three projects have been approved, while a number of others\u2014including work done in Wuhan, China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/newly-released-documents-show-nih-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-china-experts_4061437.html\">that was funded by the NIH<\/a>\u2014were not flagged \u201cdue to a failure\u00a0by the NIH to identify and flag all covered projects,\u201d Ebright said.<\/p>\n<p>Ebright was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/first-senate-hearing-on-gain-of-function-research-since-start-of-pandemic_4638497.html\">testifying before the Senate<\/a> during the first congressional hearing on risky biological research, known formally as gain of function research, since the COVID-19 pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Kevin Esvelt, said that the NIH has a long history of funding projects that are aimed at enhancing the transmissibility of viruses, including lethal pathogens, but that many of the projects were not flagged by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a failure, I think at this point in time,\u201d Dr. Steven Quay,\u00a0CEO of Atossa Therapeutics, told the panel.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts on Aug. 3 urged Congress to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the\u00a0United States, asserting the present system is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments. 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