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National Institutes of Health Expert Committed 'Serious Misconduct'

Trey Sunderland, a world-renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, took advantage of the agency's lax oversight by improperly forwarding valuable tissue specimens to a pharmaceutical company and then accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from it, according to congressional investigators.

'Serious Misconduct' by NIH Expert Found, Washington Post, June 15, 2006.