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Seed isn’t the only Harvard professor for whom conflict-of-interest compliance has proved to be a trial...
...researcher, a postdoctoral fellow from France, had worked alongside Professor of Genetics Brian Seed, a co-founder of Connetics. And Harvard Medical School’s conflict-of-interest rules create a wall between researchers and for-profit companies in which they have invested...
Seed said he would take no part in the postdoc’s experiment, but that didn’t satisfy Harvard’s conflict-of-interest monitors, who felt, according to Seed, that the deal would have benefited the company by giving it some rights to the discovery...
...taken center stage as Harvard bolsters its commitment to the sciences and encourages its researchers to bring discoveries out of the University’s labs and into the marketplace. In interviews, more than a dozen Harvard faculty members have said that the school’s unusually stringent conflict-of-interest rules have placed a hurdle on the path to innovation...
...policy prohibiting faculty from owning stock in companies that fund their research is just one of Harvard Medical School’s many conflict-of-interest restrictions. Medical School affiliates also cannot hold most kinds of management positions at for-profit biomedical firms—even if their own research is not linked to the businesses...