Word: cantley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time into a company, I'd like it to be a successful company," Lewis C. Cantley, an assistant professor in Biochemistry, says. "I wouldn't want to carry the weight of making the company survive." Cantley is currently considering an offer from a drug manufacturer: He would serve on the firm's scientific board and receive 2 per cent of its equity...
Most faculty members engaged in long-term, high-involvement consulting probably share Cantley's sentiments, and concerned scholars envision numerous conflicts of commitment resulting from such corporate loyalties. A faculty consultant whose firm is sinking in a sea of competition might shirk his academic responsibilities in order to spend more time in his industrial lab. The professor might assign his seniors and graduate students theses relating to his business rather than University research. More likely, such consulting relationships would intensify competition between labs whose heads are affiliated with different firms...