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Headline: Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/12/2024
The state’s leading research universities, UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin say the proposal could limit research and innovation being done at the institutions including the development of vaccines.
"Research on potential pandemic pathogens is highly regulated at the federal level," the schools wrote in a letter to the committee. "While studying pathogens does not come without risk, federal laws, regulations, and guidelines aim to balance the risk of this research with its public health and economic benefits."
The schools said without being able to do this research, Wisconsin would have to rely on other states' research.
"The bill would also risk the potential loss of millions of dollars of federal grant funding that benefits the state and its taxpayers and could hamstring the growth of Wisconsin's biotech and biomedical sectors."
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