But patients weren’t told on their consent forms about the financial connection.” As Solomon learned, “more than 900 current and former scientists at the National Institutes of Health legally collected $8.9 million in such royalties last year for drugs and inventions they discovered while working for the government.”įauci and Lane acknowledged that they were “unwilling to tell interleukin-2 patients about the royalties on consent forms” until the NIH developed a disclosure policy. ”įauci and Lane were “ collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment they’re testing on patients using taxpayer money. One of the few journalists to follow up was John Solomon in “ Profit Motive Hidden From Patients. Fauci’s financial information and conflict of interest payments but no plans to put that information on its website.

Had they known about that potential conflict of interest, patients might have reconsidered the risks of the trial.Īt the time, the NIH held 1200 pages related to Dr. Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books told reporters, “these are not the files the AP received in 2005 where everything was disclosed, the scientist’s name, the name of the third-party payer, the amount of the royalty paid by the payer to the scientist.”Īccording to a 2005 report by the British Medical Journal, patients who took part in NIH drug trials were not told that NIH scientists receive royalties from pharmaceutical companies and device makers. Fauci 23 payments, and his deputy, Clifford Lane, eight payments, but the NIH heavily redacted the information. ” Tabak, deputy ethics counselor of NIH since 2010 and in 2009 acting principal deputy director, seemed unaware of developments at his own agency.įrancis Collins received 14 royalty payments, Dr. Anthony Fauci, his deputy Clifford Lane, former NIH director Francis Collins, and hundreds of NIH employees presented “ an appearance of a conflict of interest. On May 11, acting National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Lawrence Tabak conceded that $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments to Dr.

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