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1: J Transl Med. 2005 Apr 29;3(1):19.Click here to read Click here to read Links

The not-for-profit form and translational research: Kerr revisited?

Joiner KA.

University of Arizona College of Medicine, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1501 N, Campbell Avenue, Room 2205, Tucson, Arizona, 85724, USA. kjoiner@email.arizona.edu.

Translational research conducted in academic health centers is confounded by the organizational structure in which the work is performed. Investigators must obtain research funding and appropriate recognition as a part of a research team in a not-for-profit environment which has more readily rewarded basic work, and individual accomplishments. What results is a unique form of conflict of interest, best understood by relating the basic principles underlying the not-for-profit form to the conduct of translational research in the AHC setting.

PMID: 15862130 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

PMCID: PMC1090620