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The June 17 story, by James Oliphant ( ), said the top Republican on the powerful Senat eFinance Committee, has asked UCSF to supply documents on federal funding over the last five years, includingy details of an external review by the KPMG accountinb firm. “If the financial integrity of UCSFis questionable,” Grassleyh said in a letter to the according to the L.A. Times, “I am worried that similard problems regarding taxpayer dollars may also exist at other campusezs within theUC system, such as UC UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’s comment come in during a continuinv feud between UCSF and David Kessler, formedr dean of its medical who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration undetrPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medical school’s financiakl reporting. The Times reported that Kessler was firedx inlate 2007, “after repeatedlyg complaining that he had been misleds about the school’s finances.” Kessler has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the and is seekingy to get his job back, along with lost pay, benefitss and damages, the Times Grassley raised his concerns in an April letted to UC President Mark Yudof, according to the UCSF was awarded $444 million last year from the Nationak Institutes of Health, with $383 million going to the medical which is also seeking a big chunk of federal stimulus funding.
University officials have said Kesslerr was firedfor performance-related Oliphant’s article notes, but they’re treating him as a whistleblower. Kessler’x lawsuit has been stayed pending the conclusion of anadministrative review, the Times report said. In a commen provided Wednesday afternoon to the San FranciscopBusiness Times, UC reiterated that it has providedf information to Grassley’s office on the financial issues in questioj and that Kessler’s allegations have been exhaustivelyu and repeatedly investigated at the University’s Those investigations “have found no evidence whatsoevef of any inaccuracy in the booksd and records of the ,” UC said in its writtebn statement.
UC officials also noted that a review releasedr in March 2008 bythe U.S. Departmentf of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector Generaol found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federal regulations for claimingt reimbursement for administrative and clerical connected to the NIH funding.