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President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden lauds scientists for rapid vaccine development, chides Trump for slow distribution

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This July 18, 2020, file photo, shows the AstraZeneca offices in Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca announced Monday, Aug. 31, its vaccine candidate has entered the final testing stage in the U.S. The company said the study will involve up to 30,000 adults from various racial, ethnic and geographic groups. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Vaccine by Nov. 3? Halted study explains just how unlikely

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

In this file photo, a poster is displayed in the entrance way looking for volunteers as the world's biggest study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway Monday, July 27, 2020, in Binghamton, N.Y. In a separate front on the coronavirus pandemic, NIH will run a clinical test of manufactured antibodies, both on hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID patients. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

NIH launches trials of synthesized antibodies for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 30, 2020, Harvard University professor Charles Lieber leaves federal court in Boston following his arrest on allegations he hid his involvement in a program designed to recruit people with knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China. Lieber, former chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard, pleaded not guilty via videoconference on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, to lying about his ties to the Chinese-run recruitment program. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) (Associated Press) **FILE**

More than 50 scientists fired or resign after NIH probe into grants’ foreign support

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins puts on his face mask after a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on new coronavirus tests on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

US faces ‘truly daunting’ challenges on needed COVID tests

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Dr. Robin Armstrong holds a bottle of hydroxychloroquine while posing outside The Resort at Texas City nursing home, where he is the medical director, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Texas City, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) ** FILE **

NIH: Don’t use hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin to treat coronavirus

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP)

More than two dozen NIH staffers diagnosed with COVID-19

By Sophie Kaplan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020 file photo, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, left, senior research fellow and scientific lead for coronavirus vaccines and immunopathogenesis team in the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, talks with President Donald Trump as he tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine as COVID-19 cases continue to grow. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Behind the scenes, scientists prep for COVID-19 vaccine test

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine as COVID-19 cases continue to grow. (NIAID-RML via AP)

National Institutes of Health coronavirus vaccine efforts center on ‘spike’ protein

By Lauran Neergard - Associated Press

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has fought for over a year and a half to get research records from the National Institutes of Health regarding unusual lab experiments. (Photo by NIH)

NIH research involved frightening monkeys in cages

By James Varney - The Washington Times

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has fought for over a year and a half to get research records from the National Institutes of Health regarding unusual lab experiments. (Photo by NIH)

PETA, conservatives should partner to stop NIH monkey business

By Tim Constantine

In this Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, photo, a health worker sprays disinfectant on his colleague after working at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro) **FILE**

Trial therapy for Ebola shows promise in NIH trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins speaks during a news conference in Trenton, N.J., on Sept. 18, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

NIH ousts three employees over controversial alcohol study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A woman evaluates the aroma of a wine in California on June 7, 2008. (Associated Press) **FILE**

NIH ends alcohol study, citing funding, credibility problems

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health speaks during an AP Newsmaker interview in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gov’t scientists scramble to save research ahead of shutdown

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins announces 'Cancer Moonshot', a $215 million private-public partnership to advance the study of cancer immunotherapy at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Thursday. (Andrew Propp/NIH)

NIH launches $215 million research partnership for cancer immunotherapies

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 7, 2017, photo, Kenneth Parker Ulrich, left, a research technician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, prepares to collect a blood sample from Erricka Hager, a participant in the &quot;All of Us&quot; research program in Pittsburgh. The &quot;All of Us&quot; research program is run by the National Institutes of Health and plans to track the health of at least 1 million volunteers by 2019. By doing so, researchers hope to learn how to better tailor treatments and preventative care to people's genes, environments, and lifestyle. The University of Pittsburgh is running a pilot program with some of the first enrollees in the study. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Wanted: 1 million people to study genes, habits and health

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Stem Cell Research at the NIH Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

National Institutes of Health needs pro-life leadership

By Jim Banks and David A. Prentice

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington on various topics including the Zika virus in Washington on Jan. 29, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

National Institutes of Health lobbies Congress to maintain funding

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Super Bowl XLIII (2009) Bruce Springsteen, left, and Steven Van Zandt, of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, perform at halftime at the NFL Super Bowl XLIII football game between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Bruce Springsteen bandmate Steven Van Zandt to perform at D.C. children’s charity event

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times