August 6, 2004
Reviewers Give Thumbs Down to Corporate Deal at Berkeley
A team of outside scholars invited by the University of California at Berkeley to evaluate its unusual and controversial research agreement with the company formerly known as Novartis says Berkeley, and other universities, should avoid similar arrangements in the future.
The arrangement at Berkeley, in which nearly an entire biology department participated in a five-year, $25-million corporate-sponsorship agreement, was "outside the mainstream for research contracts with industry," the
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