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To the Editor: Drs Moses and Martin¹ describe pressures on academic medical centers to pursue industrial alliances, which have generated a research environment fraught with pitfalls. They propose that research with commercial applications should be separated from the rest of the university and placed in independent research institutes or companies with safeguards to minimize faculty and institutional conflicts of interest. Presumably, this would both answer the growing chorus of public criticism and allow universities to cash in on new sources of revenue.

The creation of separate commercial or corporate entities to insulate academic research from potential mischief would have more drawbacks than would clear rules for organizational and individual behavior. Research institutes, whether for profit or nonprofit, would further erode the trust that the public and research subjects must have in the research process.² They would do little to alter public suspicions that the biomedical research is motivated more by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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