DID EMORY U. HIDE PHARMA PAYMENTS TO LEAD NIH INVESTIGATOR? SEN GRASSLEY WANTS TO KNOW

[flyingobject]

A Lead investigator for the National Institute of Health also received hundreds of thousands of $
from Glaxo. The integrity of NIH is compromised by this sort of thing. Sen Grassley is investigating.

February 26, 2009, 11:25 am
What Did Emory Tell NIH About Nemeroff’s Pharma Pay?
Posted by Sarah Rubenstein

Emory University continues to feel the heat over Sen. Charles Grassley’s investigation into conflicts of interest among doctors: The federal government is investigating whether Emory misled the National Institutes of Health over payments that prominent psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff received from GlaxoSmithKline, the WSJ reports.

Nemeroff stepped down from the chairmanship of Emory’s psychiatry department, but remains a professor there, amid allegations that he failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from Glaxo, maker of antidepressant Paxil.

A probe by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services is looking into whether Emory failed to tell the NIH about Nemeroff’s potential conflicts, or misrepresented the kind of work he did for Glaxo, as he served as lead investigator on NIH-funded research on five Glaxo drugs for use as antidepressants, WSJ says. The NIH last year suspended a $9.3 million grant to Emory amid Grassley’s probe.

Grassley has been encouraging the HHS inspector general to look into the matter to make sure “Emory did not, either directly or indirectly, mislead the NIH about the nature of Dr. Nemeroff’s promotional talks for GSK and advocacy on behalf of Paxil,” as he wrote (click the letter at right).


...MORE HERE

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/26/what-did-emory-tell-nih-about-nemeroffs-pharma-pay/?mod=yahoo_hs

more pay to play, which is part of the problem.

[aquart]

1. Shouldn't Nemeroff be in jail?

"Hundreds of thousands" FROM THE FIRM WHOSE DRUGS HE WAS INVESTIGATING????

[GregD]

2. Since when did Grassley actually give a rip about doing the right thing?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. fracking crooks

we need oversight. Too many cronies and crooks.