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...Pharmaceutical industry ties have been a particularly hot issue at the Medical School this past year, prompting student protests last fall over the level of disclosure for professors receiving money from medical corporations, and bringing HMS national scrutiny this summer, when Grassley reported that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs he used to treat children for bipolar disorders...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, reported last June that psychiatrist Joseph Biederman of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital received $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees from the makers of drugs that he used to treat children for bipolar disorders...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, brought to light possible conflicts of interest in early June when he revealed that psychiatrists Joseph Biederman, Thomas J. Spencer, and Timothy E. Wilens of Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital failed to report the full amount—totaling over $4 million—that they earned from drug companies over the last seven years, according to the senator’s investigation...
...Biederman and Wilens were awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Eli Lilly's drug Strattera...
...Biederman and Wilens admitted to earning over $1.6 million from pharmaceutical companies last March when Harvard and Mass. General asked the Medical School professors to "take a second look" at the income they received from consulting since 2000. The total was previously reported as a couple hundred thousand dollars, according to the Congressional Record. Spencer also belatedly reported earning at least $1 million...