NIH suspends Nemeroff grant - October 15, 2008
After recent allegations about psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff’s undeclared payments from pharmaceutical companies the National Institutes of Health has suspended a $9.3 million grant to his university.
According to media reports, the grant was for a depression study led by Nemeroff.
Emory University has also revealed that the NIH has imposed what it calls “special award conditions” on all grants made to its researchers (pdf of letter to staff). Emory says says it is implementing “a new University-wide central office to oversee administration and enforcement of conflict of interest (COI) policies”.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution says Emory has been awarded over $251 million in NIH grants this year, which makes up 61% of its external funds for research.
Read more: Nature’s leader on Nemeroff: More than one bad apple.
Comments
I wonder if Grassley and NIH should not start investigating other misuses of public grants, such as investigators starting their own unsuccessful companies around valuable patents developed with federal funds, and paying nothing to the public coffers… universities sweet-dealing with their own employees. some technologies could even be life-saving ones... all lost in ego-boosting enterprises
Posted by: Geneve from ATL | October 21, 2008 09:34 PM