AIDS research team in Iowa loses $1.38M grant

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, former Iowa State University researcher Dong-Pyou Han leaves the federal courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa. An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get $1.4 million it had been awarded from the National Institutes of Health after Han, a team member, admitted to faking research results last year. Han has pleaded not guilty in federal court to four counts of making false statements in research reports. He is free on bond awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get the final $1.38 million payment of a National Institutes of Health five-year grant after a team member admitted last year to faking research results, the NIH said Tuesday.