NIH Still Deciding Whether to Extend UCSF’s Contract to Humanize Mice With Aborted Baby Parts

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(CNSNews.com) - A multimillion-dollar contract that the National Institutes of Health has with the University of California, San Francisco, which pays UCSF to make “humanized mice” with tissue taken from aborted babies, will expire on Wednesday, Dec. 5, unless the NIH exercises an option to extend it.

As of Monday, Dec. 3, however, the NIH had not decided whether to do so.

The contract—"Humanized Mouse Models for HIV Therapeutics Development"--paid UCSF $2,018,293 in the current option year alone. Overall, in fiscal 2018, the NIH estimates it spent $103 million on research using human fetal tissue.

In a Nov. 14 story, CNSNews.com reported that the NIH said it had made “no final decision on the contract extension.” Following up on that story, CNSNews.com asked NIH again last week: “Does HHS intend to exercise its option to extend the Humanized Mouse Models for HIV Therapeutics Development contract for another year? Yes or no?”