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Klausner directed NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, from 1995 to 2001. After leaving NCI, Klausner later served and remains on the board of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a Boston company co-founded by Schreiber...
...former director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), who is currently under congressional investigation regarding a 2002 NCI grant to Harvard, said last week that he will step down from his current position as head of the Global Health program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
When the committee began investigating the grant in 2003, it requested documents from Harvard, including communications between the University and NCI and records of Klausner’s visits to Harvard. The committee also requested records from Harvard’s Presidential Search Committee, which remain sealed for 80 years under University rules. In December 2003, Harvard sent documents to the committee, withholding some search records to maintain confidentiality...
Klausner has said that he recused himself from the NCI consideration of the Harvard bid for a contract...
...said he thought it was unlikely that a director at NCI could have influenced the decision to give a grant to Harvard, due to the peer review process in which non-NCI members of the independent research community evaluate the grant proposals...