Word: nih
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...wider investigation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees NCI, was opened Dec. 8 after the Los Angeles Times reported on the financial ties between scientists at the NIH and the pharmaceutical companies with which the NIH collaborates...
...newspaper’s report found millions of dollars in consulting fees and stock options were paid to NIH employees by pharmaceutical companies...
According to the letter, NIH policy excuses officials from participating in any federal funding decisions where they might have a conflict of interest...
...letter raises questions about the terms of the contract, pointing to the fact that the contract’s funding sources typically support research at NIH headquarters in Maryland, but this money was used to support a lab at Harvard...
...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...