Did NIH Researcher Steal Taxpayer Funds?

With a price tag of $1.2 billion, the goal of the Global Virome Project is to collect and catalogue 1 million viruses from wildlife to predict which ones might cause a human epidemic.

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• U.S. federal law prohibits the use of “official resources,” such as federal funds or one’s job title, for private gain. A recent investigation has unveiled evidence showing Dennis Carroll, former director of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Pandemic Threat Program, may ha…