SV40 and Human Cancer: The Absence of NCI Research Funding — Lack of Interest or Conflict of Interest?

ic Tendichere is little doubt that very few, if any of us, would wish to be in the position of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) regarding the issue of Simian Virus 40 (SV40) and human cancer. photo-20 Think about it. The NIH, a multi-billion-dollar national health agency, and the directly responsible NCI, are in the unenviable position of having to deal with SV40 and human cancer as a public health issue. This is a difficult position for NIH-NCI to occupy because it appears both institutions have, what we lawyers call, one heck …