The Chronicle of Higher Education

Reviewers Give Thumbs Down to Corporate Deal at Berkeley

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

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...

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