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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...
...says, "I can't believe you were so gullible as to fall for that pap." The teary one blurts out, "If that film didn't touch your heart, maybe you don't have one." Relationships have sundered on this primal wrangle: whether or not one surrenders to the thrall of a movie weepie...
...very similar scene played out this week in real-life Hollywood, a place where Democratic politics is a very high-stakes business. For more than a decade, the entertainment industry's elite has been in the thrall of Bill and Hillary Clinton, pouring millions into their campaigns. But now there's a new "it" pol on the scene. Senator Barack Obama had his Tinseltown premiere Tuesday night at a glittering $1.3 million fund raiser thrown by DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Moneymen who brought in at least $46,000 got a "private" dinner with the candidate...