PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chisolm, Guy M.
AU  - Bravo, Norka Ruiz
TI  - The challenge for NIH ethics policies: Preserving public trust <em>and</em> biomedical progress
DP  - 2007 Mar 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - S29--S31
VI  - 74
IP  - 3 suppl 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/3_suppl_2/S29.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/3_suppl_2/S29.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2007 Mar 01; 74
AB  - Recently updated ethics rules for employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) aim to prevent inappropriate influences on research decisions while preserving employees’ professional and scientific interactions. Specific provisions require NIH employees to report their financial holdings in “substantially affected organizations” and require senior employees to divest all holdings greater than $15,000 in any single such organization. Outside institutions that receive NIH grants are bound by separate disclosure requirements. Public-private partnerships have become more important to NIH efforts to advance biomedical research in light of flat NIH budgets in recent years. Such partnerships open the door, however, to financial conflicts that must be prevented or managed in order to maintain scientific integrity and public trust.