Nemeroff & The First House That Glaxo Built?
7 CommentsBy Ed Silverman // January 5th, 2010 // 7:19 am
Yesterday, we wrote that Charles Nemeroff, the controversial psychiatry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, had just purchased a $1.9 million, six-bedroom, seven-bath home in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, as he prepares for his new job at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, where he’ll chair the psychiatry department.
For those who were wondering about his home in Atlanta, you won’t be surprised that it’s up for sale and the going rate is $1.25 million. You can take a tour here. This one sports just five bedrooms, but still plenty of room for storing consulting materials.
Nemeroff wound up in the spotlight thanks to the US Senate Finance Committee, which is trying to force universities and the NIH to more aggressively monitor alleged conflicts. Nemeroff 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 (background here).
The 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. And the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General began an inquiry into Emory’s handling of the matter. 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
Miami Vice
Hard to understand how Charlie needs such large houses when he spend most of his time on the road giving drug talks.
Dr. Sal Giorgianni
Oh, come on now, Ed. I don’t think it is anyone’s business how much the guy’s house is worth and the value of the house or any of his other personal belongings is not at all relvent to any matters involving his biomedical research. This sort of thing falls belongs in The Star, not Pharmalot. I would be quite upset if someday I, or any of the folks that frequent or write for, this website, saw their home values uses as a platform for innuendo of impropriety.
bill inpa
living it large down in miami and in hot lanta!
Miami Vice
As Dr. Giogianni points out, who cares where Charlie lives or how much money his house costs? Nobody, except maybe the IRS…or perhaps the patients who were affected by his decades-long PR campaign for pharma?
Ken Davis
Come on. Those shacks are half the size of mine. You should see what Reminyl does for your bottom line.
pharmavet
I tend to agree with Dr Sal. Who cares if Bill Weldon bought 8.5 million dollars of waterfront property while laying off J&J workers (Nov. 3 Pharmalot). It would have been more surprising if Uncle Bill had bought a double wide in the Ozarks.
Ethics R Us
The main point is that the Miller school thinks that this tiger is going to change his stripes….or worse they don’t care how ethical Dr. Nemeroff is as long as he brings in the $$. This man is not going to change. I won’t be giving any more money to U of Miami knowing they are so short sighted.