Post updated November 2022 Currently, UFOLIO has been rolled out for four populations: 1) Faculty, adjuncts, and postdoctoral associates holding a 0.26 FTE or higher appointment, 2) Managerial staff in Job Structure Categories 10, 11, 12, and 13 (full list of applicable job codes/titles can be found here), 3)…
Many studies published by major spinal surgery journals do not include full disclosure of researchers’ financial conflicts of interest (COIs), reports a study in Spine. “[A] large number of physician-industry interactions…are underreported by authors publishing within the surgical spine literature,” according to the study by Jeremy D. Shaw, MD, and colleagues…
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. will pay $678 million to the U.S. government and various states to settle a lawsuit over a sham speaker program that distributed cash, expensive dinners and other treats to induce doctors to prescribe its products, federal authorities announced Wednesday. The settlement of the lawsuit…
Updated 11-2-2022If you’re receiving an error message when attempting to log in to UFOLIO: UFOLIO is currently available only to four populations: 1) Faculty, adjuncts, and postdoctoral associates holding a 0.26 FTE or higher appointment, 2) Staff whose positions are classified as “Job Structure Category” 10, 11, 12, or…
Last Thursday, June 18, a long-awaited, bipartisan bill to address the federal government’s concerns about “foreign influence” in research, the “Safeguarding American Innovation Act,” was introduced in the Senate. Led by Senators Rob Portman and Tom Carper, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of…
The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was indicted today on charges of making false statements to federal authorities regarding his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program. Dr. Charles Lieber, 61, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of making false statements…
Updated August 2022 The COI Program would like to extend its sincere thanks to the following people who serve as dean-/director-level ancillary reviewers for their colleges/units. Director Carlos de la Torre, Center for Latin American Studies Associate Dean Sophia Acord, College of the Arts Senior Associate Dean Gary Mcgill,…
Federal agents have arrested an Arkansas professor who allegedly failed to disclose his ties to Chinese entities during the course of securing funding for a NASA research project, the Justice Department announced. Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, was arrested by FBI agents on Friday and charged with…
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith announced a former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested yesterday without incident by law enforcement and had his initial court appearance…
On May 8, 2020, Dr. Xiao-Jiang Li, 63, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with filing a false tax return and has been sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on the same day. Dr. Li, a former Emory University professor and Chinese Thousand Talents Program…
