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...From [Klausner’s] friendship with Dr. Schreiber, his knowledge and promotion of NCI’s previous funding of chemical genetics research, and [his] October 1999 site visit to Dr. Schreiber’s lab, we have reason to believe Dr. Klausner was well aware that Harvard was a prime candidate for this initiative,” the letter says...
...letter from the House Committee of Energy and Commerce also alleges that Klausner may have served as a paid consultant for Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a company that used the research funded by the grant for commercial purposes...
According to the letter, Klausner and Schreiber were listed publicly as two of the company’s founders when it was created in February...
...Klausner has downplayed the role he played in Infinity Pharmaceuticals while still at the NIH, and others have attested that “‘founder’ is an imprecise term,” the letter states...
...Klausner could not be reached for comment yesterday, but the letter says he told the Committee “that he was in compliance with ethics rules and that he believed there was no connection between the [Harvard] award and Infinity Pharmaceuticals...