Nobel Prize Winner's 'Pedophile Operation'; Probe of EHR Giant; NIH K Award Changes
(MedPage Today) -- The New Yorker examined the sexual abuse of a famed NIH researcher who for decades brought dozens of young boys back to the U.S. from the Pacific islands. D. Carleton Gajdusek, MD, won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his work on...
The New Yorker revealed the sexual abuse of a renowned NIH researcher, D. Carleton Gajdusek, MD, who won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his work on kuru. Gajdusek kept journals detailing his sexual interactions with young boys from the Pacific islands, and colleagues largely turned a blind eye. Colleague Mark Godec, MD, realized he was involved in a pedophile operation and reported his concerns to a senator, leading to Gajdusek's guilty plea to two counts of sexual abuse in 1997 following an FBI investigation.
The NIH allowed him to resign instead of firing him, and Gajdusek served a year in jail while continuing to publish papers.
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