A Danish scientist with a grant from the CDC stole two million dollars from it.
Aarhus University said the Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation (DASTI) has gotten grants from the U.S. National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities since 2001. Thorsen directed the administration of the grants, the university said.
After discovering that money was missing, DASTI and Aarhus “became aware of two alleged CDC funding documents as well as a letter regarding funding commitments allegedly written by Randolph B. Williams of the CDC’s procurement grants office. . . .”
“Upon investigation by CDC, a suspicion arose that those documents are forgeries.”
The university’s statement goes on to say that in March 2009, Thorsen resigned from its faculty.