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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Dr. Kenneth R. Kenyon '65 and former research fellow Dr. Scheffer Tseng were accused of violating Harvard's conflict of interest policy by holding stock in a drug company--Spectra Pharmaceuticals--which sponsored their study of the medication...
Fink also considered allegations that Tseng administered an experimental drug without consulting the appropriate hospital committees and altered his research protocol without consulting a hospital oversight committee...
Although Fink did find Tseng's actions in violation of hospital policy. she urged the Board in her ruling to consider that "at no time during the course of the study was patient safety ever compromised...
...Harvard, one incident last year came to symbolize the urgency of the issue. Sheffer C.G. Tseng, a Harvard-affiliated ophthalmologist, reportedly falsified the results of experiments he was conducting on a treatment for dry-eye disease. Tseng was found to have owned substantial stock in the company that manufactured the treatment...
Faculty are optimistic that the new guidelines will do much to prevent future incidents like the Tseng controversy...