Foreign involvement in US-based research studies is getting closer scrutiny of late. While some allegations related to foreign influence have led to well-publicized faculty firings, there have been more such cases that remained off the public’s radar, according the head of NIH’s extramural research program. Institutional have also had to repay “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in grant money as a result of this kind of violation, per a recent article in Science Magazine. Some institutions reported being unaware of their employees having employment contracts with foreign institutions, even though these staffers would sometimes be away from their home institutions for months at a time.
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