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Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced For Stealing Cancer Research Funds Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced For Stealing Cancer Research Funds
Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced For Stealing Cancer Research Funds An ex-professor at Stony Brook University will spend time in prison after admitting to stealing state and federal funding that was earmarked for cancer research. Geoffrey Girnun, a former Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Director of Cancer Metabolomics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison after pleading guilty to theft of government funds from cancer-related research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health. Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme said that between December 2013 a…