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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

COI failure fallout

Jose Baselga’s resignation from MSKCC is sending shock waves through academia

October 13, 2018 3:01 AM UTC

Jose Baselga resigned as CMO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after being accused of failing to disclose conflicts of interest, upsetting a hornet’s nest on his way out the door that is causing academic institutions and biopharma companies around the country to reassess how they communicate about their collaborations.

The Baselga case points out the flaws in a system in which funders, medical centers, universities and journals have passed the buck on accountability. ...