Abstract
A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) report identifies several problems with the way the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) functioned before Director David Schwartz resigned in February. Last year, a Senate investigation raised conflict-of-interest issues about his consulting for law firms, overspending his personal lab budget, and collaborating with Duke University, his former employer. Schwartz agreed to step aside in August during a management review requested by the House Appropriations Committee. In a 47-page report dated 9 April, the NIH Office of Management Assessment found that NIEHS officials failed to document why they funded 45 grants over 2 years that were not among the 2500 top-rated proposals. It also says that an understaffed ethics office was unable to read most conflict-of-interest reports filed by NIEHS scientists. In a rare reference to Schwartz, the report says that staffers managing his conflicts were put in “a very difficult” position because they reported to him.
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