Groups call for strict conflict rules

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Two national academic associations have called on US academic institutions to develop and implement rules that manage institution-wide conflicts of interest and refine rules that deal with conflicts among faculty of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and research universities. The linkurl:report,;https://services.aamc.org/Publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.displayForm&prd_id=220&prv_id=268 issued today (Feb. 28) by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Association of Universities (AAU), contains comprehensive guidelines for reporting and disclosing conflicts and managing institutional review boards that oversee human subjects research. The report comes on the heels of a recent __JAMA__ linkurl:study;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54300/ that found most US medical schools lacking conflict of interest policies to deal with financial ties at the institutional level. It builds on linkurl:previous guidelines;http://www.aamc.org/research/coi/start.htm issued by the AAMC, AAU, and the linkurl:Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.;http://www.aamc.org/research/coi/start.htm

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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