At the very top of Fisher-Titus Medical Center’s website is a link to the Change Healthcare HIPAA notice informing visitors of the last day to register for credit monitoring related to the world’s largest breach, which...more
8/18/2025
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When Jerry Menikoff retired at the end of 2022 after leading the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) for 14 years, he left behind an agency limping along with 20 employees, less than half of what it needed. For...more
5/28/2025
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Today, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of the Office of Inspector General and Office of General Counsel, one of just a dozen or so agencies reporting directly to the secretary....more
4/15/2025
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Research universities have had one less worry (at least temporarily) since Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary restraining order prohibiting NIH from imposing...more
4/1/2025
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If NIH succeeds in imposing an across-the-board indirect cost rate of 15%, rough estimates indicate the University of Michigan could lose $119 million a year. Emory University could be down $75 million. For the University of...more
3/3/2025
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Trump Administration
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, no. 10 (October, 2023)
The HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) will have two new members when it meets this month. In an email sent to its...more
9/26/2023
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The HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is currently operating with a 62% vacancy rate among staff, as it has not filled open positions, agency officials say. OHRP has a staff of 20, but there are an additional...more
12/28/2022
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Report on Research Compliance 19 no. 6 (June, 2022)
- Auditors for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) questioned $35,316 of costs claimed by the University of Idaho (UI) among $42.7...more
6/2/2022
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Scientific Research ,
Trade Secrets ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) -
Although a continuing resolution is now in place that funds the federal government through Feb. 18, committees are still working on bills that could contain...more
12/29/2021
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Proposed Rules ,
Request For Information ,
Research Funding ,
Universities ,
Wire Fraud
Report on Research Compliance 19, no. 1 (January, 2022) -
During the second half of fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation (NSF) collected more than $2.5 million from six universities and...more
12/28/2021
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OIG ,
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Scientific Research ,
Settlement Agreements ,
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Universities
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 10 (October, 2021) -
A University of Texas at Austin principal investigator (PI) who, in the words of the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (OIG), “generally...more
9/27/2021
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Professional Disciplinary Actions ,
Research Funding ,
Sanctions ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) -
A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
8/30/2021
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Hospitals ,
Indictments ,
Malware ,
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National Science Foundation ,
Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) ,
OIG ,
OMB ,
Phishing Scams ,
Public Comment ,
Research and Development ,
Research Funding ,
Scientific Research ,
Universities ,
Voluntary Disclosure
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) -
To his supporters and colleagues, Song Guo Zheng, MD, PhD, was the most productive worker they’ve seen in 50 years, publishing nearly 300 papers, a man who lived...more
8/27/2021
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Federal Funding ,
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National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Penn State ,
Prison ,
Scientific Research ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 8 (August, 2021) -
“As a steward of the nation’s biomedical research enterprise, NIH is dedicated to ensuring that when data and biospecimens are shared, that it is done ethically and...more
7/26/2021
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National Science Foundation ,
OIG ,
Research Funding ,
The Common Rule ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 5 (May 2021) -
Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Florida, has relaunched the bipartisan Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus with new co-chair Rep. David McKinley, R-West Virginia, who replaced...more
4/26/2021
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Failure to Report ,
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Medical Research ,
Medical School ,
National Science Foundation ,
OIG ,
Physicians ,
Teaching Hospitals ,
Universities ,
Visa Fraud ,
Wire Fraud
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 2 (February 2021) -
“I don’t want to be on the front page of the paper with my best researcher being dragged off in handcuffs. It doesn’t look good for our university,” a senior...more
1/25/2021
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Guilty Pleas ,
National Security ,
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Risk Mitigation ,
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 12 (December 2020) -
The 120-day closeout that institutions fought for after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) first released the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost...more
11/25/2020
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Universities
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 11 (November 2020)
- In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the HHS Office for Human Research Protections has issued an exception to the single institutional review board...more
10/24/2020
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Fraud ,
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Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
National Science Foundation ,
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) ,
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Scientific Research ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) -
Despite its earlier agreement to repay just $5,442 in costs questioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General, the University of...more
2/24/2020
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OSTP ,
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Universities ,
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) -
Institutions with federal research dollars, particularly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), know they may be subject to an audit by the funding...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) -
Acting with “deliberate ignorance” and “reckless disregard” are not words that any institution wants to hear associated with its name. But these are at the heart...more
1/28/2020
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OIG ,
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) -
? A man from Richland, Washington, is facing life in prison after being convicted of 47 counts of fraud for staging clinical trials that purportedly enrolled dozens of...more
12/20/2019
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