It's not just Charles Lieber: NI­H's on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion has swept up 54 sci­en­tists who vi­o­lat­ed rules about for­eign ties

The NIH’s work­ing group for for­eign in­flu­ences on re­search in­tegri­ty has opened cas­es against 189 sci­en­tists sus­pect­ed of vi­o­la­tions re­lat­ed to over­seas ties since launch­ing an on­go­ing, sweep­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion al­most two years ago, new­ly avail­able sta­tis­tics showed, lead­ing to the ter­mi­na­tions and res­ig­na­tions of 54 sci­en­tists.

Of those who have been in­ves­ti­gat­ed, 41% have al­so been re­moved from the NIH sys­tem, barred from seek­ing fur­ther grants. Michael Lauer, NIH’s head of ex­tra­mur­al re­search, pre­sent­ed a com­pre­hen­sive set of these and oth­er num­bers in a vir­tu­al up­date on Fri­day, just a day af­ter Charles Lieber — the for­mer head of Har­vard’s chem­istry de­part­ment — was in­dict­ed in fed­er­al court for ly­ing about his Chi­nese con­nec­tions.

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