12-5-06 NIH Gets Roughed Up
About a month ago, I posted about NIH's new conflict of interest rules for staffers.
Today, I spotted this article from the Washington Post about an NIH staffer who's been charged with violating conflict of interest rules. He faces a year in jail and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.
Interesting, isn't it? But it doesn't end there. The big deal in my eyes is that this guy, Pearson Sunderland, III, is being charged with not disclosing some $285,000 in fees that he received from Pfizer, beginning in 1998.
That's "Pfizer", as in the same Pfizer in the news right now for suddenly abandoning their experimental drug torcetrapib, after the death toll went a little higher than expected.
What goes around, comes around, eh?
Today, I spotted this article from the Washington Post about an NIH staffer who's been charged with violating conflict of interest rules. He faces a year in jail and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.
Interesting, isn't it? But it doesn't end there. The big deal in my eyes is that this guy, Pearson Sunderland, III, is being charged with not disclosing some $285,000 in fees that he received from Pfizer, beginning in 1998.
That's "Pfizer", as in the same Pfizer in the news right now for suddenly abandoning their experimental drug torcetrapib, after the death toll went a little higher than expected.
What goes around, comes around, eh?
posted by Jeff Barnard at 9:37 AM
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