Issn Print: 1533-7006

Publication Date: 2005/06/01


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NIH scientists added bite to their bark when they hired a law firm in April to convince the agency to re-evaluate changes to ethics rules that bar scientists' financial ties to industry.
The law firm, Arent Fox, filed a motion on behalf of the disgruntled scientists with the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking them to review the new conflicts-of-interest rules. According to the Los Angeles Times, the firm has ties to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that, in the past, hired NIH scientists as consultants.
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