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GENETICS RESEARCH AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS
DR. OLD: Well, thank you very much for having
me here and participating in this lively discussion.
DR. MURRAY: You are going to be asked to move
the microphone -- pretend you are a rock start and have
that thing in right in front of you. Okay. Thank you.
DR. OLD: Is it okay? I think it is going all
right.
I am here today to talk with you about how the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the NIH is
grappling with some of these same issues. I believe you
have all received a copy of our report from our Special
Emphasis Panel.
So over the last several years the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, or the NHLBI as we are
usually called, has become increasingly aware of extensive
resources we have in our clinical and our population
studies.
The NHLBI is supporting a large number of
population studies for a very long period of time where
stored samples have been collected and also future research
down the road and so what we were very interested in is how
can we use these stored samples and how do we construct