Clinical trials. Harvard's Koski to lead human subjects office

As Congress steps up oversight of human clinical trials, the Administration is getting a high-level manager of its own to watch out for the interests of volunteers in U.S.-financed research. As expected, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Donna Shalala last week named anesthesiologist E. Greg Koski, 50, to run a new HHS Office for Human Research Protections.