Southern Illinois University President Randy Dunn says the school system will be complying with the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee’s request for information about an SIU Springfield doctor who administered unsanctioned injections of an experimental herpes vaccine out a Springfield hotel room.

In an interview with Newsradio WJPF on Thursday, Dunn said that Dr. William Halford, who passed away in June of 2017 at age 48 due to a rare form of nasal cancer, had broken protocol by administering his experimental vaccine to himself, his family, and others.

In explaining Halford’s actions Dunn said “Of course, you can’t divine what was in someone’s mind. But my sense would be that Dr. Halford, knowing that he was very ill, he was a young man in his late forties, was not going to have twenty to thirty years left in his career to push forward this vaccine discovery, went off protocols in his private company to do this testing with various subjects.”

Dunn stressed that Halford ran the unregulated tests though his own private company, Rational Vaccines Inc, not as a part of SIU Springfield’s research.

Dunn added that the university’s focus up until this point has been addressing federal inquiries and concerns of those effected. Going forward though, SIU will attempt to tell its defense and account of events.

The full interview with SIU President Randy Dunn can be heard here.