A powerful House committee chair wants an explanation for the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) foot-dragging on more than 300 sexual harassment reports from women working for grantees such as Yale University that get billions of dollars annually from the agency.
Noting that NIH has ignored her Aug. 11, 2022, request for information on the issue, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) reminded NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak of “the case of Axel Grothey, an oncologist who continued to co-chair a National Cancer Institute steering committee despite being disciplined by three states for inappropriate sexual conduct.” Grothey wasn’t removed from the committee until “two years after complainants contacted the NIH.”
