July 2, 2004

NIH Director Seeks to Ban Cash Awards to Agency's Top Officials

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Responding to critics in Congress, the director of the National Institutes of Health said last week that he wants to ban cash awards from outside organizations, including universities, to employees of his agency who influence grants and contracts affecting those groups.

NIH officials gave a subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives a list of organizations, including 31 academic institutions, that have bestowed cash awards on agency officials since 1998. The awards generally

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