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Nature Biotechnology 27, 411–414 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nbt0509-411

Academia and the company coin

Jim Kling

In recent weeks, Massachusetts has been the center for a storm of controversy concerning academia's relationship with industry. Early in March, a grassroots movement involving hundreds of Harvard medical students demanded that the university reform the way it monitors and controls money the school takes in from the drug industry (Fig.