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Conflict over Conflicts of Interest: An Analysis of the New NIH Rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jennifer L. Gold
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Increasing reports of financial entanglements involving scientist and industry have led some to question the neutrality of research results. In December 2003, a story in the Los Angeles Times shocked readers by exposing several cases of NIH scientists embroiled in serious financial conflicts of interest.1 It was revealed, for example, that senior NIH official Stephen Katz was a paid consultant to Schering AG, a German pharmaceutical company with which he was involved in conducting clinical trials. In a similar case, John Gallin, director of the NIH's Clinical Center, was discovered to have co-authored an article on a company's gene-transfer technology, while being paid as a consultant to a subsidiary of the same company. Jeffrey Schlom, director of the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, helped direct NIH-funded studies examining wider use for a particular cancer drug while serving as a consultant whose highest-paying client was looking to genetically engineer that drug.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Spring 2006 , pp. 105 - 110
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006

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