In addition, there are growing expectations that the research
arm of academic medicine must, like the clinical arm, be a revenue source — thus the new alliances with industry, especially in the area of technology transfer.
Not exact matches
Whether moved by those pleas or by the steady stream
of gruesome casualties, the Army in 2008 launched an unprecedented collaboration between military researchers and
academic and industry scientists called the
Armed Forces Institute
of Regenerative
Medicine (AFIRM).
In the past,
academic medical investigators strove to maintain «
arm's - length relationships with their corporate sponsors,» says Marcia Angell, a former editor in chief at The New England Journal
of Medicine.
The Institute, which is affiliated with the Faculty
of Medicine of McGill University, is the research
arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)- an
academic health centre located in Montreal, Canada, that has a mandate to focus on complex care within its community.