Dive Summary:

• Northwestern University will pay $2.93 million to resolve allegations of grant fraud by a cancer researcher.
• The university allegedly allowed a researcher at its Chicago medical campus to submit false claims under research grants from the National Institutes of Health, with food and travel expenses for himself, friends and family allegedly paid out of NIH money.
• In the settlement, Northwestern expressly denies the allegations.

Dive Insight:

While federal prosecutors said the researcher used government money for personal gain, the school said it cooperated in the investigation and chose to settle to avoid “protracted litigation." The whistleblower who noticed "red flags" on invoices will get nearly half a million dollars as part of the settlement.