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...Monday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers detailing the investigation into the grant, which was awarded to Loeb Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber to found the Initiative for Chemical Genetics...
According to the letter delivered to Summers, the committee is requesting copies of any communications between Harvard and the funders of the lab, records of Klausner’s visits to Harvard and to Schreiber’s laboratory as well as the records of the Harvard Presidential Search Committee—which under University rules are sealed for 80 years following the conclusion of the search...
Harvard’s Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said that the Harvard administration has not yet decided on a response to the letter from the committee...
...committee is also looking into the size of the contract, which the letter calls an “extraordinarily large amount” to be given at one time. The average NIH grant is $365,000, according to the letter...
...letter also questions whether the factors used to choose the grant recipient favored Schreiber and Harvard, due to Schreiber’s prominence in the field, his friendship with Klausner and his former position on the NCI’s Scientific Advisory Board...