Charles Nemeroff, the controversial psychiatry professor who became a subject of a US Senate Finance Committee inquiry into academic research and pharma industry influence, is joining the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. Of course, this means leaving his previous job at Emory University in Atlanta and so he’s just purchased a $1.9 million house in the Coconut Grove section of Miami. The 5,204-square-foot home has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, according to BlockShopper.

Nemeroff, you may recall, came to the Senate committee’s attention because he was accepting sizeable consulting fees from Glaxo at the same that he was the primary investigator on an NIH-funded grant for research into a Glaxo drug (you can read background here and here). Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Repulican who spearheaded the Senate probe, is trying to force universities and the NIH to more aggressively monitor conflicts.

Grassley’s probe prompted Emory to suspend Nemeroff’s work on an NIH grant and asked him to step down as chair of psychiatry while it studied his conduct (look here). And the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General began an inquiry into Emory’s handling of the matter (see this). Meanwhile, Pascal Goldschmidt, the Miller school dean, recently told The Miami Herald that he read reports from Emory about Nemeroff’s activities and found nothing to indicate that payments the psychiatrist received had in any way influenced his research results.

In any event, the new home appears big enough to house plenty of consulting materials.