The Mayo Clinic has several hundred “active projects” funded by the National Institutes of Health across its three locations, totaling over $440 million. But the premiere U.S. hospital now appears concerned about a professor’s comments potentially closing that federal spigot.
The Rochester, Minn.,-based nonprofit academic medical center’s concern is about a professor of anesthesiology who studies “exercise physiology,” and whose research lab has been “continuously funded by the NIH since 1993.
Its College of Medicine and Science gave the professor, Michael Joyner, a one-week unpaid suspension and preemptively denied him future salary increases for talking to the media about a disfavored COVID-19 treatment and the inherent athletic advantage of males over females regardless of cross-sex hormones, according to its March 5 disciplinary letter.