May 15, 2022
The May 10, 2022 issue of Just the News reports that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “agency scientists received estimated $350 million in royalty payments over last decade, “The third-party payers are, according to the report, mostly pharmaceutical companies that credit NIH scientists as coinventors on various patents”.
“Because those payments enrich the agency and its scientists, each and every royalty payment could be a potential conflict of interest and needs disclosure,” writes Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpentheBooks.com and the report’s author”.
The report continues with, “NIH disclosed 22,100 royalty payments totaling nearly $134 million made to the government science agency and almost 1,700 of its scientists between roughly fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2015. The limited disclosures were made after OpentheBooks.com sued in federal court for access to the information”.
Finally, “Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received 23 royalty payments, in addition to taking a 2021 taxpayer-funded salary of more than $450,000. Former NIH Director Francis Collins received 14 payments, and Fauci’s deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight”.
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