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Nature Reports on Lee Hood Conflict Case

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May 26th, 2013 3:08 am

The journal Nature and genomeweb.com
today picked up the story from the California Stem Cell Report about
the conflict of interest case at the California stem cell agency involving renown scientist Lee Hood of
Seattle, Wash.

Science news aggregators on the
Internet also relayed various versions of the story. The facts were
first reported on this blog yesterday. The matter involved a $24
million application for a genome project involving Irv Weissman of
Stanford. Hood was one of the reviewers in the round. Hood and
Weissman are longtime friends and own property together in Montana.
They have also have a number of professional relationships.
In piece by Ewen Callaway, Nature
additionally referred to ongoing conflict of interest issues at the agency,
including the findings of an Institute of Medicine study. Harold Shapiro, head of the study, said the agency directors make "proposals to themselves, essentially, regarding what should be funded. They cannot exert independent oversight." 
The genomeweb item was also brief and
did not mention the IOM study.

Source:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/uqpFc/~3/xBpF71FS1Ys/nature-reports-on-lee-hood-conflict-case.html

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