July 11, 2003

House Committee Probes NIH Officials

A Congressional committee last month accused a former director of the National Cancer Institute of improperly accepting prize money from universities that later received sizable research grants from the agency.

A letter from the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to the National Institutes of Health suggested that agency employees who receive such money may be violating criminal and ethics laws and administrative policy. The cancer institute is part of the

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