University of Minnesota close to implementing campus-wide conflict-of-interest policy
Star Tribune
August 2, 2010
A broad-based conflict-of-interest policy overseeing relationships between the University of Minnesota and the business community has been almost a year in the making, but an end may be in sight.
If implemented, it will make the U one of the few universities in the country to have a conflict policy that covers the entire institution.
In the wake of scandals in which the lines between academic medicine and business have blurred, several medical schools nationwide have adopted ramped-up policies managing potential conflicts of interest. Champions of the policies say that patients and research subjects need to be assured that their caregivers are not tainted by industry influence.
