Word: thrall
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Three members of the Radiology Department at the Medical School left Harvard because they found the University’s policies to be too restrictive, according to Harvard professor James H. Thrall, the radiologist-in-chief at Mass. General, one of the University’s teaching hospitals. Those policies prohibit faculty from accepting research funding from companies in which they have a financial interest...
...three sought to commercialize their discoveries through startup companies, but since the cash-strapped startups would compensate them in stock, they would not be able to continue research on their discoveries under the companies’ sponsorship. Thrall and other observers say those restrictions make it harder for academics and biotech firms to collaborate on potentially lifesaving treatments...
...torn because I think we can be more efficient in the process if we were a little less restrictive,” says Thrall, who declined to identify the three individuals, citing confidentiality rules. “On the other hand, I see the devastating effects when people step over the line...
...Suddenly you, the inventor, who knows the most about this subject, are enjoined from working on it directly,” says Thrall, the Mass. General radiologist...
...That just was like a rifle shot right across the bow of fair Harvard, and the Medical School immediately swung into action and put into place one of the most restrictive policies in the country,” Thrall says...