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NIH is investigating researchers who might have failed to disclose contributions from foreign governments

The NIH is investigating roughly a half-dozen research institutions, looking into whether some researchers failed to disclose significant financial contributions from foreign governments.
Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health is investigating roughly a half-dozen research institutions based on suspicions that researchers with federal grants failed to disclose significant financial contributions from foreign governments, Director Francis Collins said Thursday.

The fact-finding operation, Collins said, will center in many cases on technology research.

“We are concerned about circumstances where people have intentionally been deceptive about those connections,

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