Inder Mohan Verma (born 28 November 1947) is an Indian American molecular biologist, the former Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies[3] and the University of California, San Diego, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
[9] Verma's work on viruses and cancer led to the identification of several oncogenes,[citation needed] including c-fos, and their function in normal cells.
Three female professors at the Salk Institute, Vicky Lundblad, Katherine Jones and Beverly Emerson, sued the center in July 2017, alleging it had "systemically discriminated against women in pay, promotions and access to grants".
[6] Lundblad's lawsuit asserted that administrators had deliberately reduced their advancement opportunities, passed them over when allocating grant money in favor of men, and pressured them into downsizing their labs.
[8] From 1976 to 2016, they alleged that Verma had "grabbed their breasts, pinched their buttocks, forcibly kissed them, propositioned them, and repeatedly commented on their physical attributes in professional settings".