June 18, 1999

U. of Minn. Will Repay Grant to NIH After Researcher Dies From Cocaine

By DAN CARNEVALE

The University of Minnesota announced this month that it would repay the National Institutes of Health $11,000 in grant money used to legally purchase cocaine for a study, after a researcher apparently consumed some of it himself and died of an overdose.

Keith C. Kajander, an associate professor of oral sciences and cell biology/neuroanatomy on the Twin Cities campus, had been administering cocaine and other

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