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Enhancing ties between academia and industry to improve health

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Concerns about conflicts of interest have driven a wedge between academia and the pharmaceutical and devices industries. Although elevated concern for bias is justified, particularly when academics may affect drug sales, partnerships between industry and academia are essential to achieve the full promise of health improvement from the public investment in biomedical research. New models for such partnerships are developing and should be encouraged.

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  1. Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.

    S Claiborne Johnston & Stephen L Hauser

  2. Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of California, San Francisco.

    S Claiborne Johnston

  3. Office of the Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Susan Desmond-Hellmann

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Johnston, S., Hauser, S. & Desmond-Hellmann, S. Enhancing ties between academia and industry to improve health. Nat Med 17, 434–436 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0411-434

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