Online Edition September 2001

At the School Research Shutdown at JHMI On July 19, 2001, the U.S. Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) ordered a suspension of about 2,400 federally funded human research studies at Hopkins, approximately 110 of which were at the School. The extensive review of human studies at Hopkins was prompted by the tragic June 2 death of a healthy volunteer at the Bayview Research Campus. Full Story A Cascade of Honors It's been a heady summer for Dean Alfred Sommer and the School. On May 6, it was announced that an anonymous donor had pledged $100 million to the School to fund a 10-year initiative to rid the world of malaria. Topping off the month of May, Sommer was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the nation's most distinguished scientific organization. Full Story Herb Hansen's Adventure In June, Herb Hansen Jr., senior associate dean for finance and administration, was scheduled to ride along with a Baltimore City police officer on a Friday night from 4 p.m. to midnight. The week before the ride-along, to gain an appreciation of the difficulties officers face, he reported to the Police Academy for weapons training, where he was put through "the mother of all video games." Full Story They Said It at the School "Scientists get indignant when we ask them about conflict of interest but 98 percent of studies funded by the drug's maker finds the drug works; 76 percent of studies performed by neutral researchers find the drug works." "The IV fluid was killing people through septicemia, but its manufacturer had convinced the U.S. there'd be a shortage of fluid if such a recall were carried out. So, instead of pulling the product off the market, the government merely issued a warning to physicians, in effect: 'Stop using the IV fluid if a patient gets sick.' " Full Texts Interesting Web Sites Surfing the Deep Web How to access thousands of search engines and databases that will link you to scientific resources, magazines and online news sources, federal and state Web sites, and, yes, shopping sites. Full Story Research Shutdown at JHMI | A Cascade of Honors | Herb Hansen's Adventure They Said It at the School | Interesting Web Sites | Hopkins Public Health Headlines © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University