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Incidents at National Institute on Drug Abuse

Total: 1


Incident 8482

Status: Resolved
Role: Administrator
Position: Science Director
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 2019
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: Complaint in March 2019 (plus earlier complaint) about sexual misconduct with "trainees" [see link to trainee page - trainees are students or postdocs]. "After receiving the complaint, NIH hired an external contractor to investigate. On 21 August, after the investigation was complete, Volkow sent an email to NIDA employees stating that Bonci had “resigned his position as NIDA scientific director. … His new position will be as President of the Global Institutes on Addictions” in Miami."
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