Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - Based on their review of public data on ClinicalTrials.gov, a bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...more
Good Afternoon! This is Akin’s weekly policy newsletter on space policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major space headlines from this past week and forthcoming space-related events and hearings...more
Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more
One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars....more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 2. (January 2023) -Since his arrest in August 2019, Feng “Franklin” Tao has published 16 “research articles” for the University of Kansas (KU), authored a book and began...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
Clean energy initiatives and legislation continue to advance with unprecedented direction, momentum and clout in the federal government. President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats remain fiercely committed to enacting...more
The recent news of arrests of university professors for failing to disclose their participation in Chinese talent programs has hit the academic world like a thunderclap. But those surprised by these arrests have failed to...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) - Despite its earlier agreement to repay just $5,442 in costs questioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General, the University of...more
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the nation’s first federal law related to “deepfakes.” Deepfakes are false yet highly realistic artificial intelligence-created media, such as a video showing people saying things...more