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The NIH Office of Extramural Research declined to discuss Rhapsody or Zlokovic, citing confidentiality regarding grant deliberations.

Mead also brought along a powerful funder, John Eberhardt, the director of NIMH’s extramural research, who hovered in the background as an “interested observer.”

A spokesperson for NIH’s Office of Extramural Research would not comment on the specifics of the case.

As the NIH Office of Extramural Research explained to Salon, "The Request for Information seeks input at this time on proposed guidance for use of laboratory cephalopods in research, research training, experimentation or biological testing, or for related purposes," with a deadline of Dec. 23, 2023.

As Sappol noted, “Medical students were wild about anatomical dissection, and they did a lot of extracurricular and extramural grave robbing, especially in places where there wasn’t a legal source of bodies.”