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by Ned Feder

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Consulting by NIH scientists

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Email: Ned Feder - federn@extra.niddk.nih.gov
The Scientist 2005, 19(12):8

Published

20 June 2005

The Scientist recently published a proposal for a new rule on consulting by National Institutes of Health scientists.[1] Under this rule, consulting would be "prohibited when it involves drug, device or product related to [the scientist's] research; permitted when company products are unrelated to [the scientist's] research." But this rule, proposed by the Executive Committee of the NIH Assembly of Scientists, is remarkably similar to the rules that were in existence during the 8-year period that ended in December 2003 with the Los Angeles Times' exposé of conflicts of interest at NIH.[2]


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