House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., leads the panel during an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The House Energy and Commerce Committee said Tuesday that it is probing the Biden administration’s medical research spending to see if any of it is still going to Russia in defiance of a White House order.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican and chair of the committee, said she was trying to square that assurance with information from a“To assist this examination, please review the 240 potentially problematic instances identified by the Data Abyss Tracker, determine which ones have problematic research collaborations and detail the corrective actions taken,” Ms. Rodgers and two subcommittee chairs wrote in a letter to NIH, which The Times obtained.
The decerebrated cat experiment — involving the elimination of cerebral brain function — was carried out by the Pavlov Institute in St. Petersburg using money from NIH, via a grant to the Georgia Institute of Technology. That research was intended to study spinal cord injuries and body motion. Determining the extent of U.S. funding for Russian research is tricky, and the government’s tools for tracking spending aren’t always clear.