USC To Pay UCSD $50M And Apologize For Raiding Alzheimer's Program | Gary Robbins, Bradley Fikes

The University of Southern California has agreed to pay UC San Diego $50 million and to publicly apologize to the school for the way it wrested control of its prestigious Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study in 2015 during a raid that led to a highly contentious lawsuit. The penalty and apology have resulted in the settlement of a lawsuit the UCSD and the UC Board of Regents brought against USC in San Diego County Superior Court. The move also represents an extraordinary turnaround from four years ago, when USC took control of the program’s data, contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, and gave jobs to the program’s star researcher, Paul Aisen, and some of his staff. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/story/2019-07-02/usc-apologizes-to-uc-san-diego-for-wresting-control-of-its-renowned-alzheimers-research-program