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🇺🇸 Claims that US President Joe Biden's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health personally received millions in grants from Pfizer are false. The money was given to a nonprofit that distributed the funding to cancer researchers

constitutes"payments to a research institution or entity where a covered recipient is named as a principal investigator on the research project."of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology between 2011 and 2022.

The group"comprises nearly 10,000 cancer specialists at hospitals, medical centers and community clinics across the United States and Canada"its websiteBertagnolli told the Daily Signal in 2022 that the money from Pfizer and others"was not in the form of grants to me directly," but rather"contracts entered into by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology."

"All industry contracts were used by the Alliance's 3,000+ member clinical trials group to conduct cancer clinical trials," she said. "Importantly, virtually all of the funding from Pfizer was for a single large international breast cancer clinical trial." She added that the funding"was distributed across many different health care institutions -- both academic and community -- to conduct the trial."

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