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Tom Curran was chief scientific officer and executive director of Children’s Mercy Research Institute before he was fired in late 2023.
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The former director of the Children’s Mercy Research Institute is suing Children’s Mercy Hospital, alleging that he was fired more than a year ago for disclosing the alleged misconduct of the hospital’s then-CEO to the hospital’s board.
In addition to asking to get his job back and be compensated for lost salary and benefits, Tom Curran, a pioneer in pediatric brain tumor research, claims Children’s Mercy ruined his prospects for employment elsewhere by locking him out of his lab when he was let go. That lab contained a lifetime of research material he brought to Children’s Mercy when he helped found the research institute in 2016.
In the lawsuit he filed this week in Jackson County Circuit Court, Curran claims he is still being denied access to those files and specimens that belong to him and were the basis of his research seeking cures for kids with cancer.
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The lawsuit recounts many of the same facts that The Star published last summer in a story about how Curran’s dismissal caused the Hall Family Foundation to suspend millions of dollars in donations to support the research institute, while other donors asked for the return of funds to underwrite research positions that had not been filled.
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