A survey in this week’s issue of the journal Health Affairs found that 53 percent of academic research faculty in the life sciences at top research institutions said they had financial ties to industry, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
About one-third of respondents said they had served as consultants, nearly a quarter said they had been paid speakers and 20 percent said they had received research funding from industry, down from 28 percent in 1995.
The survey, conducted in 2006-7, was mailed to about 3,000 researchers at the 50 universities that received the most NIH research funding, a common measure of top research schools.
Read the Wall Street Journal Health Blog’s report on researchers’ financial ties to industry.
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