DOJ: The Scripps Research Institute To Pay $10 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related To Mischarging NIH-Sponsored Research Grants - The Dark Descent Continues To Find The Tiny Humans

There are thousands more until we get to the tiny human lab rats....

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The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has agreed to pay the U.S. $10 million to settle claims that it improperly charged NIH-funded research grants for time spent by researchers on non-grant related activities such as developing, preparing, and writing new grant applications, teaching, and engaging in other administrative activities, the Department of Justice announced today. 

“The NIH has finite resources to support important research across the nation,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark for the Department of Justice’s Civil Division.  “Today’s settlement demonstrates our commitment to protect those resources by ensuring that NIH grants funds are used for the purposes for which they were intended."

“Federal grant recipients must use the grant funds they receive on tasks that specifically relate to the funded project.  Those that improperly charge the government for costs unrelated to the project must be held accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur.  “The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice have a duty to protect government resources and ensure they are used appropriately.”

“Taxpayers funds for medical research are finite and the need for scientific advances is great; therefore, it’s critical that these resources are used as intended,” said Special Agent in Charge Maureen R. Dixon, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.  “Working with our law enforcement partners, our investigators will continue to protect these resources so that they are spent appropriately.”

TSRI is a non-profit biomedical research institute with campuses located in Jupiter, Florida and La Jolla, California. TSRI receives millions of dollars in funding from NIH through hundreds of grants each year.  The settlement resolves allegations that between 2008 and 2016, TSRI failed to have a system in place for its faculty to properly account for time spent on activities that cannot be charged directly to NIH-funded projects or are unrelated to the research activities of the NIH-funded project.  Consequently, the U.S. contended that TSRI improperly charged time spent by faculty on developing, preparing, and writing new grant applications directly to existing NIH-funded projects, rather than allocating such charges as indirect costs.  The U.S. also alleged that TSRI improperly charged NIH-funded projects for time spent by its faculty on other activities unrelated to the funded projects, such as teaching, TSRI committee work, and other administrative tasks. 

The settlement resolves allegations originally brought in a lawsuit filed under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act by Thomas Burris, Ph.D, a former TSRI employee.  The act permits private parties to sue on behalf of the government for false claims for government funds and to receive a share of any recovery.  Dr. Burris will receive $1.75 million.

The settlement was the result of a coordinated effort by the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, and the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The case is captioned U.S. ex rel. Burris v. The Scripps Research Institute, Case No. 1:15-CV-01443 (D. Md.).  The claims resolved by the settlements are allegations only; there has been no determination of liability.

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SCOTUS: The Very First Live Broadcast Of The Very First Time The World Witnesses The Dark Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution On Stealin' The Children, Land & Vote - Parental Rights

This is hearing is about USAID v. Alliance for Open Society International 

This hearing is about sex trafficking women and girls through U.S. Corporate Shape Shifting Public Private Partnerships which operate world wide, christian, organizations, but the arguments have not identified the entities, through HIV/AIDS programs.

This is about the Right To Bear Arms of the United States through the termination of Parental Rights to the Children's Trusts.

This is about gerrymandering, or, what I call, stealin' the children, land & vote.

From Wikipedia: 

In September 2005, AOSI sued the United States Agency for International Development and other U.S. Government agencies in response to the government extending an anti-prostitution pledge that was a component of HIV/AIDS policy during the George W. Bush administration to cover non-profit organizations based in the United States. The pledge required recipients of funding under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act to state that they had a policy opposing prostitution and prohibited them from engaging in speech or activity the government deemed inconsistent with an anti-prostitution policy. The requirement covered recipient organizations as a whole, and therefore restricted speech or activity that took place outside the government-funded program and was paid for with entirely private funds.[3][4] As described by the online magazine Medical News Today:

At issue in the case is a requirement that public health groups receiving U.S. funds pledge their "opposition to prostitution" in order to continue their life-saving HIV prevention work. Under this "pledge requirement," recipients of U.S. funds are forced to censor even their privately funded speech regarding the most effective ways to engage high-risk groups in HIV prevention.[5]

Just prior to this case, the non-profit organization DKT International had brought a similar lawsuit, prevailing in District Court but losing on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The February 2007 ruling was based on the assumption that the government would allow speech regarding prostitution through affiliate organizations that did not receive federal funding.[6]

With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, AOSI sued the United States Agency for International Development, the financial backers of its Central Asian drug rehabilitation programs. AOSI's initial co-plaintiffs were the Open Society Institute and Pathfinder International. They were joined later in the litigation by InterAction and the Global Health Council. Lawyers from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law represented the plaintiffs.[3][5][7][8]

In May 2006, Judge Victor Marrero, a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued a preliminary injunction barring the government from requiring AOSI and Pathfinder International to sign the anti-prostitution pledge.[3][5][7] The government appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. During the oral argument in the case, the government stated that it intended to issue regulations that would allow legally and physically separate affiliates of recipient organizations to engage in the prohibited speech.[3][7] The government issued guidelines to this effect in July 2007. In November 2007, the Court of Appeals returned the case for trial to the District Court for reconsideration in light of the new guidelines but left the injunction in place.[9]

In August 2008, the district court held that the new guidelines did not cure the constitutional problems with the requirement.[8] The government appealed again to the Second Circuit. While the appeal was pending, the government again revised the affiliate guidelines. In July 2011, the Second Circuit held that the requirement was unconstitutional and that the new affiliate guidelines did not cure the violation. The Supreme Court granted review in January 2013.[9]

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. that the requirement was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court explained that the requirement would "plainly violate the First Amendment" if “enacted as a direct regulation of speech,” and that the question in the case was whether the government could “nonetheless impose that requirement as a condition on the receipt of federal funds.” The Court noted that it had previously struck down “conditions that seek to leverage funding to regulate speech outside the contours of the program itself.” The Court concluded that the requirement was just such a condition because it “compel[led] as a condition of federal funding the affirmation of a belief that by its nature cannot be confined within the scope of the Government program,” and therefore that the requirement violated the First Amendment.[10] The decision is significant for its holdings on the scope of the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, and it is likely to have continuing importance for evaluating the constitutionality of government attempts to restrict speech by recipients of government funding.

The NGOs are actually arguing in defense of trafficking tiny humans under the First Amendment, in fealty, claiming Parental Rights as an organization.

To learn more about the origins of the action, cause of action, the history of trafficking tiny humans, the procurement and purveying of tiny humans, Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, and all the technical and legal nuances in the residuals of the peculiar institution, in the name of the lord, go to the top right of the page and type in your search terms to generate your own, evidentary novella about the end results of this case.

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Jimmy Carter Has Been Activated!

NIV Lessons from Life Bible

Jimmy knows.

Laura does not.

Laura did not even read Jimmy's new book before the interview.

The prolife movement started in Detroit.

Prolife came from the foreign invasion to take over the United States through privatization to cover up the industry of trafficking tiny humans by re-animating the residuals of the peculiar institution.

https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/WICPC2016.pdf
The greater increase in the number of "The Poors",
there shall be a positive, direct correlation,
where Pearson's R = 1.00,
to the amount of Medicaid fraud in child welfare
one can get away with stealin' the children, land & votes.

The origins of prolife came when the *russisn/israeli/ukrainians* took over the Michigan Republican Party, then the Republican National Committee.

Jimmy initiated WIC, the Title V Program of Women, Infants & Children, which, of course, is riddled with fraud because the research is funded through federal grants to private, foreign corporations, which just so happen to be Corporate Shape Shifters, like Insight Policy Research, who like to generate propaganda to secure more federal research grants for more streamlined feasibility in its endeavors to procure state administrative, private contracts, to their research associates to become vendors for infant formulas, which no one has taken the time to do any research on correlations between infant mortality and the promotion of artificial breastfeeding, made by foreign corporations.

WIC was established in 1972 by an amendment to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89–642, as amended). WIC is a nonentitlement, discretionary program. In April 2016, 8.8 million women, infants, and children participated in WIC. For fiscal year 2016, Congress appropriated $6.35 billion for the program.

Meet Kathleen Flanagan, one of those high quality propagandist who cranked out some WIC dirty data crap for the purposes of demonstrating that gerrymandering is an acceptable practice when it comes to facilitating policy creation for human asset forfeiture to foreign corporations in Social Impact Bonds to generate more fraudulent cost reimbursement to Medicaid in Child Welfare.

Mike Duggan knows all about this.

Kathleen knows about infant mortality and how to maximize revenues maintaining human capital all over the world through her USAID lab rat work.

Katthleen knows about administrating those tiny human lab rat research programs, too.

Kathleen Flanagan
President & Chief Executive Officer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/flanagankathleen

Kathleen Flanagan is president and chief executive officer of Abt Associates. She assumed the position on October 1, 2009, after a distinguished career working across the broad range of markets and policy areas that reflect the company's business today. 

Flanagan joined the company in 1983 as a policy analyst in the Health Area. In 1989 she became managing vice president of the company's Labor Economics Research Area, overseeing research on workforce development and income security programs. In the mid-1990s she launched the International Workforce and Education Practice, winning projects from clients including the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank and U.S. Department of Labor. In 1998, she launched the company's Housing and Community Revitalization practice and built a team of more than 75 researchers and technical assistance staff working on affordable housing and community development policies at the federal, state and local levels. In 2005, she was named group vice president for social, economic, and health policy.

Flanagan is a board member of the Professional Services Council (PSC). She is secretary of the PSC Executive Committee and chair of its Civilian Agencies Council. She is also a board member of the Maryland World Trade Center Institute, member of the Massachusetts Women's Forum and member of the CEO Forum of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society for International Development.

She is a founding member and former president of Jobs Have Priority, a Washington-area nonprofit that provides job training and housing assistance to homeless individuals and those at risk for homelessness. 

The purpose of prolife is to cover up the tiny human lab rat research and experimentation, the work of the lord, based in Magnitsky propaganda and to fund political campaigns.

The Tale Of Pat Cipollone, Laura Ingraham & The Industry Of Trafficking Tiny Humans As Lab Rats - Magnitsky Propaganda

Those aborted tiny human baby parts the prolife propaganda likes to illuminate never includes the research zygotes or miscarriages, which, more than likely, happen when the host, the hottest policy term of the day for a gestating mother or petri dish, happen when people are poor, because there is a lack of medical health care access, and food, which is why WIC was created.

We have now closed the tauntological circle on the purpose of prolife.

This is about Parental Rights.

Jimmy has knows.

Jimmy has been activated!

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Jimmy Carter: Democrats Should Abandon Pro-Abortion Position

Appearing on the radio talk show of conservative radio host Laura Ingraham today, former President Jimmy Carter said he believes the Democratic Party should moderate its position on abortion, which it currently supports without limits and funded at taxpayer expense.

Carter said toning down the stridently pro-abortion position would help win back Republicans who abandoned the Democrats because of abortion and other liberal social issue positions.

Carter said:

“I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president having to uphold Roe v. Wade and I did everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. I made it easy to adopt children for instance who were unwanted and also initiated the program called Women and Infant Children or WIC program that’s still in existence now. But except for the times when a mother’s life is in danger or when a pregnancy is caused by rape or incest I would certainly not or never have approved of any abortions.”

“I’ve signed a public letter calling for the Democratic Party at the next convention to espouse my position on abortion which is to minimize the need, requirement for abortion and limit it only to women whose life are in danger or who are pregnant as a result of rape or incest. I think if the Democratic Party would adopt that policy that would be acceptable to a lot of people who are now estranged from our party because of the abortion issue.”

In August 2008, the Democratic Party approved a platform that mirrors President Barack Obama’s pro-abortion views.

“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right,” the platform reads.

The party has removed any language calling for abortions to be “rare,” or even “safe,” preferring to concentrate on keeping them legal.

That fact wasn’t lost on Karen Cross, the political director for National Right to Life.

She said the platform is even out of step with Democrats, and pointed out that 42% of those who identified themselves as Democrats in a June 2008 Polling Company survey said the oppose all or most abortions.

“Once again, the pro-abortion leadership of the Democratic Party demonstrates an allegiance with the extreme pro-abortion lobby and continues to show that it is out of step with a large number of its own membership and out of step with the majority of the American people,” Cross told LifeNews.com.

The final aspect of the language hearkens to Obama’s pledge to Planned Parenthood in a July 2007 speech saying his first action as president would be signing the so-called Freedom of Choice Act. That’s a Congressional bill that would overturn every abortion limit nationwide from a ban on partial-birth abortions to parental notification laws.

The platform statement on abortion doesn’t end there but includes two more paragraphs that serve as a public relations ploy to moderate that extreme position on abortion.

It talks up birth control and promotion of contraception as supposedly a means to end abortions even though stats seems to show promoting the morning after pill, for example, fails to reduce abortions.

“The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to affordable family planning services and comprehensive age-appropriate sex education which empowers people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions,” the platform proposal reads.

It also provides the party and Obama with political cover by saying it supports childbirth and helping pregnant women.

“The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre- and post-natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs,” it concludes on abortion.

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Tales Of The New Crown: Duggan Does Not Want National Guard To Help The Children Because It Might Remind The People Of Conyers

Duggan does not want anyone to remember that which no one will #sayhisname.

Duggan was uber mean to my Sweetie.

The local food banks have shuttered due to the cooties.

The homeless walk the streets in search of food because there is no more hustle.

The children who do not want to go into CPS to Foster Care are holding on, with very little support or advocacy because the schools have no emergency preparedness planning.

Just sharing, but it is hard for these Youth In Transition, exiting Foster Care.

They were isolated their entire lives, with the only known support system of institutionalization and psychotropic medication.

The daily meal pick up from the schools was not ever going to happen.

That is gas and travel, when people are told not to travel.

So, the schools went to a weekly pick up, but Gleaner's food delivery trucks were always short.

So, then, the students are told they will receive $200 special state food card, which is not a BRIDGE SNAP card, that have yet to arrive.

The City was supposed to set up counsel district community center sites to pick up food, but that program is not going very well, because those who have never experienced poverty have better access, because they own vehicles, where the old, the young, the lost, are not able to navigate such a transportation logistic system of moving the food from point A to point B.

Yes, the children of Detroit are in desperate need for any kind of assistance that is being offered, and food would be a start as we live in a food desert.

TCF Center hospital gets visit from Commanding General of U.S. Army North

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Mayor Duggan rejects National Guard offer to distribute food in Detroit

Detroit missed a major opportunity this week when a Michigan National Guard offer to help distribute food in the city was rejected by Mayor Mike Duggan, who voiced concern that their presence on city streets could tear open old wounds from the 1967 riot, a prominent city pastor said Friday.

The Rev. Charles E. Williams II, senior pastor at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit and chairman of the Michigan chapter of the National Action Network, said he accepted a state offer of National Guard assistance with food distribution — only to see the plan rejected by the mayor at the 11th hour.

“That memory of tanks rolling down the streets is something we need to reverse,” Williams told the Free Press Friday. “We need new pictures. We need people giving out food.

"People need food. Nobody is going to run from the food because you've got a uniform on."

Duggan rejected the offer, saying the National Guard members were not needed because employees of the Detroit Department of Public Works could do the work if city volunteers were not available, said Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

The Michigan National Guard is helping with food distribution in Grand Rapids, Flint and Pontiac and is doing other humanitarian work in other cities around the state.

More: Michigan National Guard expands food bank support to Royal Oak

More: Trump approves federal funding for Michigan National Guard during pandemic

"I think it is a lost opportunity to move Detroit forward," Williams said, stressing that he is grateful for and highly satisfied with help from city public works employees to distribute food.

"We have so many sacred cows that we have not kicked over in this city, and they're usually about race," he said.

At a news conference on Thursday, Duggan said the main issue was protocol.

"The National Guard comes into cities in a deliberative process between the governor and the mayor," Duggan said. "They don't come into a city because a church doesn't have enough volunteers," and "ministers don't call in the National Guard," he said.

At the same time, Duggan acknowledged that the National Guard has already been working in the city during the pandemic, helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers convert the TCF Center into a field hospital.

The mayor said he has "enormous respect" for the National Guard.

Having said that, "there are a lot of people in this community who have a memory of the 1960s that is still painful, and it's still stressful," Duggan added.

Then-Gov. George Romney ordered the National Guard mobilized to Detroit in July 1967 amid five days of civil unrest and looting that left 43 people dead. Though frequently referred to as a riot, the disturbance is also known to many as the Detroit rebellion or uprising.

A police raid on an illegal after-hours bar was the immediate spark for the civil disturbance, but the riot also marked the release of years of building tension related to abuses by a nearly all-white Detroit police force and racial discrimination in jobs and housing.

Duggan said he first heard about the National Guard helping with food distribution at 5 o'clock Wednesday night, when he got a call from the governor's office saying Williams needed help distributing food. Duggan said the governor's office offered to send the National Guard if city forces were not available, and Duggan said he told them the city had it covered.

Williams described a much more drawn-out process that he said was initiated by the state.

He said he has been involved in distributing donated meals to Detroit residents since March 13, with the help of church and other volunteers, including social work students from the University of Michigan. It's a way of keeping people in their homes and out of the grocery stores during the coronavirus pandemic, while also assisting with the large poverty problem in Detroit, he said.

About two weeks ago, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist raised the possibility of making members of the National Guard available in Detroit during a phone call with several prominent Detroit pastors, Williams said.

Brown, Whitmer's spokeswoman, confirmed Gilchrist had an April 3 phone call with pastors at which an offer of National Guard help for Detroit was offered and discussed.

Williams said he and the other pastors had some concerns, and wanted assurances the Guard members would not be carrying guns or wearing vests or helmets. They received those assurances, he said.

Not long after that phone call, Williams learned he would be receiving a truckload of 10,000 cold meals for distribution in Detroit through a National Action Network source, and that donated meals would increase to 20,000 next week and even more in the coming weeks.

"We were slammed," said Williams, who added that many of his regular younger volunteers are working from home and older volunteers face too much risk from coronavirus to do the work.

That made the offer from the National Guard even more attractive because of the numbers of workers it could offer and because of its experience in disaster relief and logistics, their adherence to social distancing guidelines, and their access to and use of personal protective equipment, Williams said.

He requested help from the Guard, and after a series of phone calls, an official told him the National Guard had a waiting list of members wanting to volunteer in Detroit, he said.

Several high-ranking officers from the National Guard visited his church on Wednesday, where they scoped out the work and moved meals from the recently arrived truck to another truck, he said. The officers said they would have a large contingent at the church Thursday morning, ready to help distribute the food through neighborhood walk-up pickups, drive-by pickups and home delivery.

"For me, that was kind of overwhelming," said Williams, who said he had not been invited to any city meeting or conference call about assisting with the pandemic and was not aware the city Department of Public Works might be available.

Williams said he received a phone call at 8 p.m. Wednesday from a National Guard colonel saying he regretted they would not be able to help after all on Thursday, though he could not say why.

Then he started getting calls from the city, saying workers from the Department of Public Works could do the needed work the next morning.

He was not about to turn away the help, but at that time the city employees had not had any orientation and did not even know what they were supposed to be doing for work that was supposed to start the next morning, Williams said.

Conversely, the National Guard had experience with such work. "This is what they train to do," he said. "We're in the middle of a pandemic."

Williams said he has not been close with Duggan and did not know whether the mayor felt slighted, did not want his project to proceed as planned because of his involvement or was worried about having the National Guard visible in Detroit.

"Remember, the National Guard was not the only culprit in the 1967 riots — it was also the Michigan State Police and the DPD (Detroit Police Department)," he said.

Williams said another big change since 1967 is that so many Detroit residents have gained military experience, including with the National Guard.

Capt. Andrew Layton, a spokesman for the Michigan National Guard, said more than 300 of its members live and work in Detroit. The Guard has helped out in Detroit on numerous occasions prior to the recent work on the TCF Center, including the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Comerica Park in 2005 and the Super Bowl at Ford Field in 2006.

"The Michigan National Guard is always ready to serve," and "always proud to be part of the Detroit community," he said.

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The Death Of James Taylor: The Industry Of Trafficking Tiny Humans Is Quite Complex & Extremely Lucrative

James Taylor was quite fond of the tiny humans.

The industry of trafficking tiny humans is quite complex and extremely lucrative.

This is yet another segment modern day human trafficking.

There are many, many more.

https://nekrut.github.io/lab_site/

This is about Corporate Parental Rights.

Who owns the zygotes?

Better yet, where did they get the zygotes?

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2019/09/biogenetic-legal-library-of-corporate.html

In Memoriam, Professor James Taylor

James Taylor

It is with great sorrow that the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences shares that James Taylor, Ralph S. O’Connor Professor of Biology and Professor of Computer Science, died on Thursday, April 2, 2020. He was 40.

Professor Taylor was a trailblazer in computational biology and genomics research. He had an enormous impact as a scientist, teacher, and colleague, and his loss is devastating to many – both here in our Hopkins community and around the globe.

As one of the original developers of the Galaxy platform for data analysis, Professor Taylor and his lab group focused on extending the Galaxy platform as well as on understanding genomic and epigenomic regulation of gene transcription through integrated analysis of functional genomic data. The ultimate goal is to achieve a complete understanding of the structure and function of genomes.

The Galaxy platform serves as software for the entire genomics community worldwide, giving a powerful boost to researchers’ ability to process data and make groundbreaking connections across organisms. But Professor Taylor was also involved with many other projects; for example, he developed a strategy to support the health of the Chesapeake Bay by detecting microorganisms in the Baltimore Harbor and monitoring their levels continuously using newly developed, portable, and rapid DNA sequencing technologies.

Vince Hilser, chair of the biology department, describes Professor Taylor as a bedrock of the department. “He came in 2014, and it was transformational. He was this catalyst for change, with a huge positive impact.” His presence in the department opened up many areas for research, as he was able to help other faculty members uncover new insights by revealing similarities between the proteins they were studying and those in other organisms.

What Professor Taylor did for the department, he also did for the broader research community. In addition to his crucial involvement with Galaxy, he collaborated broadly, and was cited with great frequency.

A familiar figure on the Homewood campus, riding his skateboard, Professor Taylor was a beloved teacher and mentor who treated his students as equals. He approached his work with passion and energy, and was a friend and colleague to many in our community, who share in mourning his loss deeply.

Biology Assistant Professor Rajiv McCoy says he counted Professor Taylor as a mentor and friend. “He blazed a trail for computational research within the Department of Biology and is one of the main reasons that I came to Hopkins. James was a selfless advocate for trainees and junior faculty, working tirelessly in the background on our behalf. James was also an outspoken proponent of reproducibility in computational research. His work to highlight this issue and develop tools for addressing it has been invaluable to the scientific community. I am shocked and heartbroken by this loss and its impact on his family, friends, and colleagues.”

John Kim, associate professor in Biology, shared adjoining offices and labs with Professor Taylor in the UTL building. He wrote, “For the past five years, we had grown very close as colleagues with common scientific interests but more importantly, as friends. He was such a passionate advocate for collaborative research and his influence went well beyond the university to the broader scientific community. His is an incalculable loss. James was soft-spoken, kind, and compassionate. His office door was always wide open, inviting anyone to come in to talk. He furnished it sparsely, with just a small round table in the middle and speakers by the windows playing a broad and eclectic selection of music while he worked on his laptop. It was an open, inviting space where I and many others would stop in to talk about science or just to say hello. He was a great listener, so thoughtful and generous with his time. We have lost a brilliant scientist and a great friend to the many lives he touched and made better.”

https://anvilproject.org/

Michael Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology, spoke of Professor Taylor’s far-reaching scientific and personal impact. “James was an exceptional scientist, colleague, mentor, and community builder,” Professor Schatz wrote. “His life’s pursuit was to understand how genomic information is used in normal development and how changes in the genome can dysregulate this process in disease. Further, through co-leading the Galaxy project and the Anvil project, a major thrust of James’ career has been to support the work of other scientists, especially to empower those with limited resources. His impact is immeasurable, with thousands of scientists that have benefited from his leadership and contributions. On a personal level, James was always kind, friendly, and generous, and we will miss him dearly.”

https://galaxyproject.org/galaxy-project/

Professor Taylor earned his BS in computer science from the University of Vermont in 2000, and his PhD in computer science in 2006 from Penn State University, where he was involved in several vertebrate genome projects and the ENCODE project. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, he was an associate professor in the departments of biology and mathematics and computer science at Emory University from 2008 until 2013. At Hopkins, he also held an appointment in the Whiting School’s Department of Computer Science.

https://www.encodeproject.org/
"Who owns the zzygote?"

He was a member of the Science Gateways Institute Steering Committee, and had been a member of the National Center for Genome Analysis Scientific Advisory Board from 2014 to 2016; a member of the iPlant Scientific Advisory Board member from 2013 to 2016; a member of the XSEDE Project User Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2014; and co-chair of the International Arabadopsis Informatics Consortium: Engineering, Architecture and Infrastructure Working Group in 2011.

Professor Taylor is survived by his wife, Meredith Greif, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. We send our deepest condolences to her as well as to his colleagues in the Department of Biology and far beyond.

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Tales Of The New Crown: Detroit Mayor Duggan Speaks On DDOT & More Human Lab Rat Experiments

Will the Detroit lab rats be compensated for participating in clinical drug trials of a private corporation, which is probably foreign and will stand to make billions to be billed to Medicaid in finding a miracle cure in a bottle?

Probably not.

Will Duggan share in the participation of this revenue maximization scheme?

Probably.

DDOT driver who said woman coughed on his bus dies of COVID-19

Always remember, you cannot wash your hands if you have no water, nor can your vote be counted if your water is shutoff.

Welfare rights groups want transparent, swifter action in water restorations

It is such the tragedy macabre that it takes a tragedy macabre to get government to understand that "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) are no longer human capital to be leveraged.

Henry Ford starts drug study; Detroit hits almost 3,000 COVID-19 cases, nearly 100 deaths

Detroit — Henry Ford Health System is heading up the first large-scale study in the country to find out if a drug commonly used to treat lupus can prevent COVID-19.

Doctors from the Detroit-based health system joined Thursday with Mayor Mike Duggan to make the announcement on a clinical trial planned for hydroxychloroquine and put out a call to first responders to volunteer. Consideration of the study has been underway for about 10 days, officials said. 

The five-hospital system is close to getting Food and Drug Administration approval and is going to start enrolling participants next week, officials said.

"In a matter of four to eight weeks, we will have a really good idea of whether this works," Duggan said. "We will be fighting coronavirus for months to come. We need tools to fight back."

The trial would recruit 3,000 volunteers and include a blood test and would require participants to take a once-a-day dose, once-a-week dose or a placebo of the pill over eight weeks. 

"We're looking for first responders and health care workers who, if the study works out, will save the lives of first responders around the world," the mayor added. 

No proven cures or preventative treatments exist for the virus.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hydroxychloroquine is an FDA-approved arthritis medicine that also can be used to prevent or treat malaria. It is available in the United States by prescription only. 

The study medication was specially procured for this study and will not impact the supply of medication for people who already take the medication for other conditions, officials noted. 

Dr. Adnan Munkarah, Henry Ford Health System's executive vice president and chief clinical officer, said first responders and health care workers "are really in harm's way" as some have tested positive for COVID-19 and others are hospitalized.

"We want to save people who are exposed," Munkarah said during the press briefing at Detroit's Eastern Market. 

Officials with Michigan Medicine said Thursday that they reducing use of the drug for its cases. 

“We haven’t seen any clear evidence of benefit so we aren’t going to use hydroxychloroquine routinely anymore. We were initially recommending it to both inpatients and outpatients, but we’re no longer doing that routinely," said Vineet Chopra, Michigan Medicine’s chief of hospital medicine, in a Thursday blog post.

"That’s based upon the fact that we’ve been prescribing hydroxychloroquine for a few weeks, did not see therapeutic benefit but did see adverse effects.”

Those side effects Chopra noted, include liver function toxicity, nausea and vomiting. Use of the drug could also exclude a patient from COVID-19-related clinical trials. 

Many area hospitals are treating patients with hydroxychloroquine, an unproven treatment they hope will lessen the severity of COVID-19 in some patients.

The FDA in late February issued an emergency use authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for treatment of SARS-CoV-2, another name for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. 

The decades-old malaria drugs have been championed by President Donald Trump for COVID-19 treatment to the consternation of some medical experts because little evidence is available on their safety or effectiveness. 

In Detroit, there are nearly 3,000 confirmed cases of COVID- 19 and is nearing 100 deaths, Thursday figures from the city's health office show. 

Detroit's Health Department is now reporting 2,860 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 97 fatalities. That's 377 more positive cases than were reported on Wednesday and 15 more deaths. 

City officials have said Detroit will continue to see its cases rise due to its aggressive testing.

The city, meanwhile, is among the first in the country to receive rapid-result testing kits from Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories.

Five testing machines and 5,000 kits that provide results within 15 minutes arrived in the city Wednesday and should soon be up and running to test police, firefighters, EMTs and bus drivers. Detroit hopes to begin that testing Thursday evening, Duggan said. 

Separately, the mayor said he expects that a regional site established at the former Michigan State Fairgrounds will conduct at least 14,000 tests for COVID-19 over the next six weeks. 

With adequate supplies, the city hopes it can ramp up to 1,000 tests being conducted daily at the site. 

Detroit's Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair said Thursday that "no one is immune" to the virus that's impacting people throughout the city.

"The next several weeks are going to be challenging," Fair said. "I can tell you without a doubt, it's going to get worse before it gets better."

The state on Wednesday reported 9,334 confirmed coronavirus cases overall and 337 total deaths.

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Will The Ghost Of Patrick Duggan Haunt Mike Duggan For What He Did To Detroit?

Legacies are important and should never be bleachbitted.

Mike Duggan's father's decisions may set case precedent to hold those accountable for what was done to Detroit.

Retired senior judge Patrick J. Duggan, father of Detroit mayor, dies

Patrick Duggan

Retired senior U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan, the father of Detroit's mayor, has died, the city announced Wednesday.

Duggan, 86, passed away at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at Angela Hospice in Livonia following a lengthy illness. He was surrounded in his final days by his wife, four sons, daughter-in-law and 13 grandchildren, the family said.

Duggan, who was nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, retired as a federal judge in 2015 after three decades on the bench. His son, Mike Duggan, is serving his second term as Detroit's mayor.

The judge was known for his relentless pursuit of dispensing justice equally regardless of status and his strong value for family, son Tim Duggan told The Detroit News.

"I couldn't feel more blessed that I had him as an example as a dad," said Duggan, 53, of Ohio, Duggan's youngest son and his father's "stated favorite."

"Honestly, I don't know how he did it. He managed to be at home at dinner every night and coach Little League team when doing all the other things he was doing," he added. "As important as his legal career was, nothing ever came before the family."

Mike Duggan, the city said Wednesday, had spent the last few weeks splitting his time between work and Livonia, spending time with his father and other relatives, in some cases multiple times per day.

Patrick Duggan was a Wayne County judge for 10 years prior to moving to U.S. District Court beginning in 1977, following an appointment to the position in 1976 by Gov. William Milliken.

He was officially appointed to the U.S. District Court in October 1986 and assumed judicial service in January 1987, according to the court's website.

Prior to his federal appointment and time on the bench in Wayne County, he'd been a senior partner at Brashear, Brashear, Mies and Duggan, a private law firm in Livonia.

Duggan was born Sept. 28, 1933. His father, Patrick J. Duggan Sr., left the family farm in Kilkenny, Ireland, at the age of 18 to come to Detroit.  His mother, Mabel Kelly, was the daughter of Irish and German immigrants who also made Detroit their home, according to an obituary prepared by the family.

Duggan grew up on Detroit's east side and attended St. Clare de Montefalco Elementary School, then De LaSalle High School.


In 1951, he left to earn an undergraduate degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He worked his way through school, first as a loader at a nearby dairy and then for the U.S. Postal Service, his family said. He graduated in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

He then returned to Detroit and completed his juris doctorate at the University of Detroit School of Law.

Among his federal cases, Duggan sent former Detroit Red Wings player Bob Probert and ex-Detroit Tiger pitching great Denny McClain to prison.

The judge in 1997 handed down a sentence of more than eight years to McLain for raiding raiding the pension fund of his former company and putting it out of business.

In deciding the sentence, Duggan had agreed with prosecutors that McLain should be held to a higher "public trust" standard.

As an owner of Peet Packing Co., McLain misused pension funds, driving the company into bankruptcy. He spent the pension money to pay personal debts and luxuries for himself that included a motorcycle and condominium in Puerto Rico."It was this abuse of trust that significantly facilitated the crime," Duggan said during McLain's sentencing.

Other cases he's known for, family noted, include a ruling against the Oakland University after a student with intellectual disabilities was denied the right to live in a student dorm there. The decision "allowed Mikah Fialka-Feldman his rightful place – in school and in society," the family said.

A 2000 ruling in favor of the University of Michigan’s use of affirmative action in its admissions process made its way to the United States Supreme Court.  Duggan ruled that diversity could be considered a compelling government interest — a principle that the Supreme Court eventually affirmed.

Senior U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn first met Patrick Duggan while he was city attorney for Livonia and Cohn was practicing law.

“We developed a friendship that continued through his service on the Wayne County Circuit Court and his appointment as a judge of this court," Cohn said in a statement provided by the court. "He was always calm, thoughtful and fair minded. Absent from his makeup was any prejudice or bias. We will all miss him.”

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood added Duggan was "fair minded and respected the law."

"He had a good sense of judges as a group and I valued his opinion on issues facing our court and judges," she said. "He saw many changes in the law and society during his judicial tenure."

Hewas a past president of the Livonia Bar Association, a trustee of the board for Madonna University in Livonia and a teacher in its paralegal program. Earlier on, he held roles as a past president of the Michigan Jaycees and a chairman of the Livonia Family YMCA.

In retirement, Duggan enjoyed more time with family, as well as Joan, his wife of 63 years, whom he called "my best friend, my supporter through all things, and the most important person in my life.”

Duggan will be buried at Parkview Memorial Cemetery in Livonia in a private family service. A public memorial celebration of his life will be held later this year when the health risks associated with the coronavirus have eased, the city added in a statement.

He was preceded in death by parents Patrick and Mabel Duggan; sisters Margaret Duggan, Mary Cassabon and Kay Murray; and son Robert Duggan. He is survived by his wife Joan; son Michael; son Daniel and his spouse Sharlene; son James and his spouse Stephanie; and son Timothy and his spouse Albina; thirteen grandchildren; three great grandchildren.

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Happy Rare Disease Day From Genomics, et al

Rare disease day is February 29, 2020, where many hospitals in Michigan will expand construction projects for more rare disease research on tiny humans to fraudulently bill Medicaid.

The global networks are vast when it comes to the trafficking of tiny humans industry, but Rare Disease Week only comes once a year.

FUN FACT! THE VATICAN HAS A LEVEL 4 LAB FOR TINY HUMANS

Praise the lord from the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Happy Rare Disease Day!

May the tiny humans lab rats created for Orphan Drug testing always become blessed little angels by the side of a prayer warrior trained to advocate the use of a pew in a neonatal unit.

Hello, Beverly We are celebrating Rare Disease Week in this month's newsletter!  We are humbled to be able to assist great rare disease organizations like BPAN Warriors and The National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias (NFED), respectively. We have provided Mastermind Genomic LandscapesTM for BPAN and Ectodermal Dysplasias to help Pharma and researchers understand the molecular drivers of the diseases, identify biomarkers for clinical trial target selection, and support CDx regulatory submissions with empirical evidence. Read about our work for BPAN Warriors in the Journal of Precision Medicine: READ THE ARTICLE Read this week’s press release about our work for NFED: READ THE PRESS RELEASE

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Mastermind is the most comprehensive source of genomic evidence covering over 7,500,000 articles, with more added daily. Here are some recent highlights of the great things happening in genomics:

Pinpointing Rare Disease Mutations This study compares knockout mice viability and phenotyping data from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) with human cell lines provided by the Broad Institute’s Project Achilles to create categories indicating how crucial a gene is to producing viable life. “Loss of gene function is often referred to as a binary concept; lethal or viable,” says Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes, Biologist, Mouse Informatics at EMBL-EBI. “In this study we show that gene essentiality is more of a spectrum ranging from cellular lethal, developmental lethal, subviable, viable with a visible phenotype, and viable without a visible phenotype.” Read the article in miragenews.com Read the study in nature.com

NIH Scientists Identify Atomic Structure of Novel Coronavirus Protein NIAID scientists working with investigators from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have identified the atomic structure of an important protein on the surface of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, formerly called 2019-nCoV). The authors note that the findings will aid in the design of candidate vaccines and the development of treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus, which was first identified in China in December 2019. Read the article in clpmag.com Read the research report in sciencemag.org

Unprecedented Study Yields Most Comprehensive Map of Cancer Genomes to Date The international team ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (known as PCAWG or the Pan-Cancer Project) has completed the most comprehensive study of whole cancer genomes to date in 22 papers, significantly improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and suggesting new directions for its diagnosis and treatment. Thanks to these efforts — and previous full-genome sequences — scientists now have an unprecedented view of the genetic changes that can contribute to cancer, and a clearer idea of where gaps in knowledge remain. Read the article in ucsc.edu View the collection of publications in nature.com

Thanks for reading. Explore and Discover! The Genomenon Team

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