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House Oversight Subcommittee Probes Taxpayer-Funded Animal Experiments, Urges Investment in Human-based Alternatives
Summary
At a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing, witnesses and members criticized federally funded animal experiments — including beagle and transgender-animal studies — and called for greater transparency, oversight, and funding of human-based research methods such as organs-on-a-chip and AI models.
At a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation, lawmakers and expert witnesses criticized federal funding of animal experiments and pushed for stronger oversight and greater investment in human-based research alternatives.
The discussion centered on a series of examples that witnesses described as wasteful or cruel, including past National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that funded tests on dogs and other animals, an asserted portfolio of NIH grants described by one witness as connected to "transgender" animal models, and the use of taxpayer funds at foreign laboratories. Witnesses and members said federal investment in alternatives such as organs-on-a-chip, three-dimensional organoids and computational models could yield more human-relevant data while reducing animal use.
Justin Goodman, senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, told the panel that his organization's reviews of federal grant databases and contracts turned up what he described as "cruel,…
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