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A federal indictment unsealed Friday alleges that a tenured medical professor swindled the National Institutes of Health (NIH) out of millions of dollars in research funding. Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, of Pennsylvania, is accused of fabricating and falsifying scientific data in grant applications submitted to the NIH on behalf of himself and a publicly traded Texas biopharmaceutical company. The fraudulent applications sought funding for research into a potential treatment and diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease. Prosecutors allege the scheme ran from May 2015 to April 2023, resulting in roughly $…

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