An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes for Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists, including the agency’s recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a non-profit government watchdog.
“We estimate that up to $350 million in royalties from third parties were paid to NIH scientists during the fiscal years between 2010 and 2020,” Open the Books President Adam Andrzejewski told reporters in a telephone news conference on May 9.
“We draw that conclusion because in the first five years, there has been $134 million that we have been able to quantify of top-line numbers that flowed from third-party payers, meaning pharmaceutical companies or other payers, to NIH scientists,” Andrzejewski said.
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