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...past month alone, members of the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, officials of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and high-ranking university officials from the United States and Canada have met independently to review Harvard's affiliations with industry and to voice their fears over the growing field of biotechnology...
...recent gathering of the NIH advisory committee, Donald Fredrickson, director of that agency, questioned an official from Massachusetts General about whether the quality and independence of the hospital's research would be compromised by industrial support. Ronald Lamont-Havers, director of research at the facility, defended the Hoechst agreement as specifically designed to preserve academic integrity, adding that similar fears were raised 30 years ago about increasing federal funding for campus research. He noted in a recent interview that without the government, which today supports 75 per cent of the nation's biomedical research universities would "never have achieved anything...
Lamont-Havers contends that a corporation will not necessarily begin dictating research policy to a university or hospital just because it helps support work going on there. He told the NIH that Hoechst's main interests are to obtain up-to-date information and have a place to train its best young scientists. Alan C. Olsson, dean for resources at the Med School and one of the masterminds behind the Du Pont deal, agrees emphatically, saying that although Du Pont has not requested training positions for its people, the company's main interest "is forwarding investigations that will lead...
After three hours of debate and a flurry of amendments, the council approved an ordinance that allows the large-scale work, if it adheres to National Institute of Health (NIH) guidelines, but requires firms or institutions engaging in it to fund a professional enforcement staff...
Biogen officials were unavailable for comment yesterday, but company officials said last month they would be happy to abide by the NIH guidelines. Robert Neer, chairman of the Cambridge biohazards committee, which developed the ordinance, said recently that "as far as I know they're still interested...