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' oé 9 FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) 6 b?7C 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID Continuation of FD-302 of es a ,On 01/15/2008 __, Page 2. UponL__| arrival at USAMRIID was briefed concernin etd Division and Lts personnel; however, C Jnad no Specific recollection off] indicating tolL__] that IVINS was undergoing significant personal or famil roblems. recalled that on occasion, /_-——_l= IVINS wou omment concerning his marital status or the pike. bus) [never knew whether to take IVINS serious or not recalled that IVINS was not open about his personal life. When[ reported to USAMRIID Lee indicated that the "writing was on the wall," explaining at a shift in research jiorities from anthrax-vaccine work to xr other research had begun Ll explained that it became apparent from "[the command] across the street,"(Fort Detrick Command Staff) and USAMRIID Command, that funding for the various anthrax-vaccine research programs had dried up as there was a concerted effort to shift from vaccine research into therapeutics, as therapeutics was where the research funds were. Based on discussions at meetings, whose participants were: Because the remaining (i.e. anthrax-vaccine work) was viewed as menial in nature, and a waste of IVINS's talents, such tasks as validation assays, it was suggested that perhaps IVINS's should work on research pertaining to Burkholderia mallei. According toi —s™YS a consorted effort had begun to shift from anthrax-vaccine resea ccine research in general to therapeutic research. | _|elariticd that the meetings and the subsequent plans to shift research priorities occurred just prior to the end of fiscal year 2001 (August 2001). [J] believed that word of management's intentions to shift anthrax-vaccine research had in fact filtered its way down to the individual researchers.