Tabak, then-acting director of the National Institutes of Health, and Fauci, then-director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, both claimed before Congress that they could not release the names of the companies paying NIH third party royalties.
The newly released documents reveal - for the first time - the names of companies that paid NIH scientists $325 million in third party royalties from 56,000 transactions between September 2009 and October 2020.
Our OpenTheBooks oversight reporting - which led to three congressional hearings during 2022 regarding NIH's secret third party royalty payments - is available here for review.
One such company neighbors the Wuhan Institute of Virology, collaborates with the lab, and even paid a royalty to Douglas Lowy, a multiple term acting director at the National Cancer Institute, a sub-institute of NIH. Russian animal vaccine maker - which was allegedly a front for a Soviet bio-weapons lab - licensed inventions and paid royalties to NIH for tech developed with taxpayer dollars.
Long-serving former NIH director, Francis Collins, received third party royalties on his inventions from four companies that themselves received nearly $50 million in federal contracts and grants since 2008.
Now, because of our oversight investigation at OpenTheBooks.com, we know just how close they are: NIH spends billions on the industry and now we know the industry sends millions back to NIH and its scientists.
The NIH position on the transparency of third party royalties seems to be just give us the funding.
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