Australia’s biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipients’ fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct scandal and a critical audit. The audit, tabled on Tuesday, confirms the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has recovered $2.6 million from five grants awarded to applications “based…

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