President Barack H. Obama issued Executive Order (EO)13505 Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells on March 9, 2009. The EO states that the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, to the extent permitted by law. The EO also directs the Secretary, through the Director of NIH, to review existing NIH guidance and other widely recognized guidelines on human stem cell research, including provisions establishing appropriate safeguards, and issue new NIH Guidelines on such research.
The NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research (Guidelines) implementing the EO and establishing policy and procedures under which the NIH will fund such research became effective on July 7, 2009, and are available at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp.
The Guidelines provide scientists who apply for NIH funding with a specific set of standards reflecting currently recognized ethical principles and practices specific to embryo donation, and prescribe the assurances and supporting documentation necessary for NIH funding of research using hESCs, and describe research that is not eligible for NIH funding. The Guidelines establish a new NIH Registry of eligible hESC lines that comply with the set of standards described in the Guidelines. NIH will also post lines that are not approved for use in NIH funding.
EO: EO 13505 Name/Subject of EO: Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells
There are no substantive changes to the data collection. The minor adjustments to Form 2890 and related instructions are: (1) clarification of the date format for responding to question 10, (2) a description of the potential types of supporting information pertaining to question 11, and (3) a slightly different process for making changes to a submission, described in the instructions under "Final Submission and Email Confirmation."
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