NIH’s Lax Effort to Stop Harassment ‘Unacceptable': Lawmakers

The NIH has “largely failed” to stop sexual harassment at research institutions, two key Democratic appropriators said.

“Federal funding should not support laboratories and institutions where workplace harassment is allowed to continue,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) wrote in a letter released Aug. 7.

That federal funding must go through Murray and DeLauro, who are the top Democrats on the congressional panels that set spending levels for medical research. That money—more than $30 billion a year—in turn, goes to 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research organizations and more than 300,000 researchers.

Their letter to ...