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...second apparent irregularity of the grant lies in how it is administered. While the Med School grant office handles all research funding from private corporations, the school's associate dean administers the Monsanto grant, Elizabeth Picard, director of grants at the Medical School, said yesterday...
...million grant for cancer-related research from the Monsanto Corporation to the Medical School still seems very important to both parties, two years after the contract was announced-so important that they have appointed an independent committee consisting of a former U.S. attorney general, three prominent scientists from the National Academy of Sciences and a former presidetn of CBS to ensure that any research results are applied in the public interest...
...grant also carries an unusual stipulation that drew some controversy when the grant was announced. Harvard's policy was not to give patent rights for new discoveries to any granting institutions. But Barry Wander, director of science communication for Monsanto, said yesterday his corporation has the rights to any commercial applications of discoveries made under its huge cancer grant...
...have yet to find one who has a good word to say for [guidelines]," says an executive of Boise Cascade. But a minority are in favor. "Businessmen are now willing to get on the sidelines and help make Government economic policy work," says James Kerley, executive vice president of Monsanto...
Thus while ex-professor Jean Mayer also has ties to the food industry, including board directorships on Monsanto and Miles Laboratories, which make food flavorings and other additives--he is criticized less forcefully than Stare in the study for lending his "prestige" to food and chemical companies. Indeed Mayer is praised for "repeatedly [voicing] his concern over food industry advertising and the quality of the American diet...