MSKCC says senior execs may not hold industry board seats

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has barred its senior executive officers from holding board positions at MSKCC spinouts or external for-profit health and science-related entities, according to a staff memo sent by SVP and Chief Risk Officer Debra Berns Friday.

In the memo, Berns said the new rules came out of early recommendations by MSKCC's conflict of interest task force, which Berns chairs...