’s fetal tissue policy. By Meredith Wadman, Jocelyn KaiserLast summer, the Trump administration clamped down on federally funded fetal tissue research by requiring that such projects go through an ethics review by a new advisory board.
Research advocates were eager to learn who Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar would appoint to the board and to see its ideological makeup.
Today they got their first look as it gathered online for a one-time meeting run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Although the 1-hour public portion of the meeting was perfunctory—limited to introductions and public comments—it offered a glimpse of the opposition that may greet proposals to work with fetal tissue donated after elective.