Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Professor of Medicine Kenneth R. Kenyon '65 last week stepped down from his administrative posts at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary because of several investigations into experiments conducted under Kenyon's supervision by Tseng, a former ophthalmology fellow...
...Kenyon, who could not be reached for comment, will continue to practice at the hospital and remain a researcher at the Eye Research Institute, a private group with ties to Mass. Eye and Ear, said spokesperson Mary Brotman...
...boost the value of his stock in the drug's manufacturer. "A significant conflict of interest had occurred," said Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson. Tseng's research "was run without sufficient safeguards to protect against potential bias," he said. Tseng's supervisor, Associate Professor of Medicine Kenneth R. Kenyon, held $340,000 in the company's stock...
THIS affair brings up a number of troubling and unanswered questions. First, how will Kenyon and Tseng, who now works at the University of Miami, be punished? Second, what investigative and disciplinary procedures exist to handle this and similar cases and do they rely solely on in-house review? The Medical School seems to have botched its own internal investigation, which has been kept secret. Tosteson's only answer to the whole crisis has been reissuing the school's conflict of interest policy. It's time that the Medical School turn to outside peer groups for review of its professors...
...carefully observed the literary landscape, looking for new writers to translate. "It is easier to get published down there than it is in the U.S.," he says, "but harder to make money at it. There are many little magazines, and they are widely read. It's as if the Kenyon Review had The New Yorker's circulation. But the fees paid to contributors are nothing like The New Yorker...