The next day, he informed readers that the first house that Glaxo built for Nemeroff in Atlanta was up for sale at a price of $1.25 million. "This one sports just five bedrooms, but still plenty of room for storing consulting materials," he wrote.
The Emory investigation found Nemeroff was paid more than $960,000 by Glaxo, from 2000 through 2006, but he listed less than $35,000 on disclosure forms. All totaled, he had earnings of $2.8 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007, but failed to disclose at least $1.2 million, according to Grassley's reports.
The real outrage toward Insel stems from the reporting that Pascal Goldschmidt, dean of the UM's medical school, told Baskin that Insel guaranteed him Nemeroff would be allowed to apply for NIH research grants, even though Emory had suspended Nemeroff's work on an NIH grant, and in December 2008, placed a 2-year ban on Nemeroff applying for NIH funding. Goldschmidt claimed Emory's ban "was an immediate reaction to the political pressure that the university was under."
Further fanning the flames, was the Chronicle's revelations that Nemeroff is serving on the NIH expert panels that help decide "which grant applications win federal financing," at a time when there is still an ongoing investigation into the NIH's lack of oversight of Emory and conflicts of interest involving Nemeroff, by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
After reading Baskin's article, Grassley fired off a letter to Daniel Levinson, the Inspector General, on June 7, 2010. "I was extremely disturbed to read a story today in The Chronicle of Higher Education," he told the IG.
"For almost a year," he wrote, "Dr. Charles Nemeroff has been under investigation by your office for failing to fully disclose his conflicts of interest regarding his grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)."
"During this same time, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Director of the NIMH was assisting Dr. Nemeroff in obtaining a new job and made assurances that Dr. Nemeroff would be able to apply for new NIMH grants," he said. "I ask that you look into this matter and proceed as you deem appropriate."
On June 7, 2010, Grassley sent a letter to UM president, Donna Shalala, basically stating the same thing except he told her: "I was also troubled by Dr. Goldschmidt's comments that a ban against Dr. Nemeroff from receiving NIH grants was 'an immediate reaction to the political pressure that the university was under.'"
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