{"id":6539,"date":"2024-05-07T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2024-05-07T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:15:54","slug":"white-house-overhauls-rules-for-risky-pathogen-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/07\/white-house-overhauls-rules-for-risky-pathogen-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"White House overhauls rules for risky pathogen studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/white-house-overhauls-rules-risky-pathogen-studies\">Science<\/a> New policies for gain-of-function and \u201cdual-use\u201d research will cover broader swath of experiments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House is tightening federal oversight of so-called gain-of-function (GOF) studies that could enhance risky viruses in ways that increase their ability to cause a pandemic. It is also overhauling rules for a broader category of federally funded research on dangerous pathogens that is considered \u201cdual use,\u201d because the results could be used as bioweapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rules, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about U.S.-funded studies in Wuhan, China, that manipulated bat viruses distantly related to SARS-CoV-2, will expand the number of studies that must undergo special reviews. But the rules,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/news-updates\/2024\/05\/06\/united-states-government-policy-for-oversight-of-dual-use-research-of-concern-and-pathogens-with-enhanced-pandemic-potential\/\">released yesterday<\/a>&nbsp;by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), are narrower than a proposal floated last year that many scientists feared would complicate studies on low-risk pathogens such as cold viruses and herpesviruses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many researchers involved in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/u-s-weighs-crackdown-experiments-could-make-viruses-more-dangerous\">the intense debate over how to regulate GOF studies<\/a>\u00a0funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appear to be generally satisfied by the new policy. It is \u201ca very big step forward,\u201d says biosecurity expert Tom Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who has called for tighter GOF rules. \u201cBased on an early read, we think this strikes a good balance,\u201d says Allen Segal, chief strategy and public affairs officer for the American Society for Microbiology, which had concerns about regulatory overreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/white-house-overhauls-rules-risky-pathogen-studies\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science New policies for gain-of-function and \u201cdual-use\u201d research will cover broader swath of experiments. The White House is tightening federal oversight of so-called gain-of-function (GOF) studies that could enhance risky viruses in ways that increase their ability to cause a pandemic. It is also overhauling rules for a broader category of federally funded research on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}