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Quarterly Article
June 2025 MATTHEW S. McCOY, MARTHA E. GAINES, STEVEN JOFFE, Genevieve Pham-Kanter, EMILY A. LARGENT, Bernard Lo, HOLLY FERNANDEZ LYNCH, ALLISON M. WHELAN, Michelle M. Mello,
Leaders at many of the country’s top academic medical centers earned—in addition to their institutional salaries—hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as directors of pharmaceutical and device companies. Critics have urged academic institutions to rethink conflict of interest policies governing leaders’ outside activities, which are understood to pose not only individual conflicts for leaders themselves but also institutional conflicts for their academic employers. More
Quarterly Opinion
May 2025 Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Alida Bouris,
The Trump administration is unsettling universities with aggressive cuts to federal research funding, including a reduction of the National… More
February 2024 Paul Kershaw, Verena Rossa-Roccor,
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
May 2020 Tana M. Luger, Alison B. Hamilton, Gala True,
Context: Community‐engaged research (CEnR) aims to engender meaningful academic‐community partnerships to increase research quality and impact,… More
