The Scientist : Is corporate funding steering research institutions off track? [5/2/2002]

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by Dan Ferber

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Is corporate funding steering research institutions off track?

Email: Dan Ferber - ferber@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020205-04

Published

5 February 2002

URBANA, ILLINOIS — Cancer researcher John Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has come under fire in the past month for sitting on the corporate boards of both Enron and ImClone while directing the medical center. As corporate funding for university research rises, so do financial conflicts of interest, and ethicists and officials alike are scrambling to keep corporate funding from eroding public trust in research institutions.

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