“Much to the relief of a Harvard University researcher, a California-based philanthropic group is getting into the monkey business.
Open Philanthropy, a grant advisor and funder, told the Globe on Friday that it authorized a $500,000 grant to allow researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to complete an ongoing tuberculosis vaccine study that was abruptly cut off from its National Institutes of Health funding earlier this week, imperiling the lives of its rhesus macaque test subjects.”