October 15, 2008

Conflict-of-Interest Concerns Halt NIH Project at Emory U.

By Richard Monastersky

The National Institutes of Health has stopped a major $9.3-million, five-year study at Emory University because of concerns over payments made by drug companies to the former chief researcher on the project.

The university received funds for the first two years of the project, a study on depression, but the NIH froze the rest of the money for the study this summer, according to Ron Sauder, vice president for communications at Emory. The study ceased recruiting new patients in

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