“The National Science Foundation awards billions of dollars in grants each year to promote promising scientific research. “The department will continue to ensure that grant applicants submit complete and truthful disclosures, so the government has full transparency into the applicant’s funding sources.” Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “Universities and their researchers must disclose all sources of current and pending support, including any foreign support, in federal research grant applications,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. “Those individuals and universities that knowingly fail to do so skew the grant awarding process in their favor and will be held accountable.” “Complete and accurate disclosures by principal investigators and universities of current and pending support are essential to federal agencies that make decisions on awarding federal grants,” said Erek Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. In connection with the settlement, Stanford has agreed to work with the NSF Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy on best practices in the areas identified by the United States. The United States further alleged that Stanford knowingly failed to disclose to the Army, Air Force and NSF that a Stanford professor received research funding in connection with his employment at Fudan University, a foreign public university and from a foreign government’s national science foundation. The United States alleged that on sixteen grant proposals submitted to the Army, Navy, NASA and NSF, Stanford knowingly failed to disclose current and pending foreign funding that eleven Stanford PIs and co-PIs had received or expected to receive in direct support of their research. Current and pending support is defined as all resources from whatever source - including foreign government sources - that are made available to researchers in support of and/or related to their research endeavors. All of these agencies require grant applicants to disclose all current and pending support received by the institution and the principal investigators (PIs) and co-PIs on the grant proposals.

The settlement relates to research grants that Stanford received between 20 from five federal agencies: The Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Barron and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. The settlement was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Baltimore, Maryland – Stanford University, located in Palo Alto, California, has agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting proposals for federal research grants that failed to disclose current and pending support that twelve Stanford faculty members were receiving from foreign sources.

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