Collins: “Not every one of these investigations is going to reveal something bad, but some of them will”

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Stealing data obtained through the NIH peer review process is the most egregious of the cluster of rogue behaviors revealed through ongoing investigations of diversion of intellectual property, NIH Director Francis Collins said in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee April 11.

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