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Responding to concerns about possible ethical violations among scientists who work as consultants to pharmaceutical companies, the National Institutes of Health have released a new, tighter ethical code for researchers receiving NIH funding. About 90% of the NIH's $28 billion budget is spent on researchers at academic centers, many of whom also work for pharmaceutical companies whose products are being tested or analyzed.
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- Questions about whether federal scientists should also be paid consultants for pharmaceutical companies have extended to scientists in universities and medical centers who receive federal research funds.
- The worry is that some scientists could wind up having a bias, however unwitting.
- As an example: A researcher who gets federal funds for conducting a clinical trial of a drug also may consult for the company that makes the drug.
- The NIH relies on universities to police their scientists for conflicts, according to Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH deputy director for extramural research.
- The NIH is scheduled to announce new ethics regulations today.
- Some academic scientists feel that the collaborations with industry are a badge of honor.
- "If scientists are asked to consult, it means that these companies realize they have something important to say," said Dr. Fred Goodwin, a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University and former scientific director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
- Waxman, in a letter to Zerhouni, questioned whether such academic scientists are scrutinized enough.
- His letter also cited other issues: Last year, 29,961 academic scientists were called on to participate in reviewing the 70,000 grant applications submitted by scientists throughout the country.
- "Are scientists who review NIH grants allowed to have financial interests in companies that could be affected by the outcome of NIH-funded research?"
- NIH's Ruiz Bravo said peer-reviewers are supposed to disclose conflicts and recuse themselves if there are any.
- Dr. Solomon Snyder, director of the department of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, said the relationships between scientists and drug companies have become important.
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