NIH needs to raise oversight of conflicts of interest among researchers, report says

doi:10.1136/bmj.39475.397338.DB

BMJ 2008;336:235 (2 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.39475.397338.DB

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NIH needs to raise oversight of conflicts of interest among researchers, report says

Janice Hopkins Tanne

¹ New York

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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is lax in checkingfor conflicts of interest among the researchers who receivebillions of dollars in its grants, says a report by the Officeof the Inspector General of the Department of Health and HumanServices, the institutes’ parent agency.

It has recommended that grantee institutions report the natureof financial conflicts of interest and how they are managedto the NIH. The NIH has objected to that recommendation, however,saying that it should not have to take on that responsibility.

During the fiscal year 2007, the 24 institutes and centres gavemore than $29.2bn (£14.7bn; ${euro}$ 19.8bn) in research grants,80% of which was distributed through about 50 000 competitivegrants to more than 325 000 researchers at more than 3000 universities,medical schools, and other research institutions in the UnitedStates and abroad, the report says.

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