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Got this over the weekend from University of Minnesota political-science professor Teri Caraway, who says the team conducting the U's ordered 

In June, the U hired the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs to run the review, which involves a team of independent investigators.

It did so after the Faculty Senate called for a review in December. Scholars had been raising questions over the 2004 suicide of patient Dan Markingson in a university drug trial, and how the U had handled his involvement in the trial.

-- have questioned how thorough and unbiased the inquiry will be.

Caraway says the letter -- signed by about a dozen faculty members -- went to Brian Herman, the U's vice president for research, and former Senate Consultative Committee Chairman Will Durfee, about the group's concerns with the review:

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Scholars had been raising questions over the 2004 suicide of patient Dan Markingson in a university drug trial, and how the U had handled his involvement in the trial.

Group of U faculty voices concern over drug review

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