Dr. Timothy Niewold Agreed to Pay $160,000 for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Making False Statements in HHS Grant Applications

On July 18, 2024, Dr. Timothy B. Niewold, MD, New York, New York entered into a $160,000 settlement agreement with OIG. The settlement agreement resolves allegations that Dr. Niewold knowingly made false statements, omissions, and misrepresentations of material fact in four grant applications he submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Specifically, OIG alleged that in three grant applications, which NIH did not fund, Dr. Niewold misrepresented that an academic research center had committed to supporting his grants by providing him over 1,600 healthy control blood samples from various ancestral groups and that the samples were immediately available for use in the proposed grant-funded research project. OIG further alleged that in the fourth application, which NIH funded, Dr. Niewold misrepresented that an academic research center had created PNP-floxed mice and that the mice were in-hand and ready for use in the proposed grant-funded research project. Senior Counsels Michael Torrisi, Srishti Sheffner, and Geeta Taylor represented OIG.

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