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The National Institutes of Health has received more than 300 complaints against NIH-funded scientists since 2018, the majority of which relate to sexual harassment. As a result, 75 investigators have been removed from their grants, the agency reported on June 10.
The data were presented during a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director, and included complaints received in the years since the NIH made changes to its complaint process in response to growing pressure to address sexual and racial harassment by the scientists it funds. Prior to 2018, no principal investigator had been removed from an NIH grant for sexual harassment, Science reports, and the agency has increasingly urged victims to bring their complaints forward.
“As the largest single funder of biomedical research in the world, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) bears a responsibility to take action to put an end ...
