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According to a letter sent on Monday to University President Lawrence H. Summers, the investigation will look at whether Dr. Richard Klausner, the director of the NIH’s National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001, “personally and substantially participated” in the decision to award the contract to Harvard at a time when he was a candidate for the presidency of the University...
...Klausner’s schedule shows he attended meetings to discuss the contract during this time, and “it appears [he] had detailed personal knowledge about this subcontract and its status,” according to the letter, which was also sent to NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni...
...promotion of NCI’s previous funding of chemical genetics research, and [his] October 1999 site visit to Dr. Schreiber’s lab, we have reason to believe Dr. Klausner was well aware that Harvard was a prime candidate for this initiative,” the letter says...
...letter from the House Committee of Energy and Commerce also alleges that Klausner may have served as a paid consultant for Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a company that used the research funded by the grant for commercial purposes...
According to the letter, Klausner and Schreiber were listed publicly as two of the company’s founders when it was created in February...