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          fluid velocities.5  Petitioner also expected to prepare for and             
          pass the Ph.D. qualifying exam by January 1989.                             
               On August 26, 1988, NIH granted petitioner's request to                
          transfer his fellowship to CUNY and indicated that he would                 
          receive a stipend of $25,000 and an institutional allowance of              
          $3,000 for the 12-month period extending from August 20, 1988, to           
          August 19, 1989.  The award notification contained the preprinted           
          statement "Future Support Recommended (Subject to Availability of           
          Funds and Satisfactory Progress)" and thereafter contained a                
          prorated stipend and institutional allowance for a 10-month                 
          period commencing at the end of the current award period.                   
               In the summer after his first academic year at CUNY,                   
          petitioner submitted an Award Continuation Application to NIH               
          wherein petitioner requested activation of the remaining 10                 
          months of his NRSA grant.  Petitioner's request was granted on              
          July 24, 1989.  Petitioner received a prorated stipend of $20,833           
          and an institutional allowance of $2,500 for the period August              
          20, 1989, to June 19, 1990.                                                 
               On April 27, 1990, petitioner wrote to an NIH program                  
          administrator requesting a 1-year extension of his MARC faculty             
          fellowship.  Petitioner indicated in his letter that he needed              

               5  An NIGMS grants management official indicated at trial              
          that petitioner's request to transfer his MARC fellowship to CUNY           
          was reviewed in detail by NIH staff to assure that the proposed             
          Ph.D. research activities with Dr. Johnson as sponsor were of               
          similar or comparable quality to the originally approved research           
          project at Drexel.                                                          




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