Unlike drug trials, the procedures for testing pesticides on people are neither specified nor reviewed by
scientists outside the company doing the testing.
Not exact matches
Even with Theranos» proprietary technology in hand, however, the lack of peer - reviewed studies — the kind of data
scientists traditionally use to assess a development in their field — has generated skepticism from experts
outside the
company.
For Ph.D. - level
scientists seeking a career
outside of academia, a job at a product
company can represent a challenging yet highly rewarding career path.
In his long life, he created trouble for a host of people and organisations: from black - shirted fascists to irresponsible pharmaceuticals
companies to over-zealous traffic wardens who regularly patrolled the streets
outside the offices of New
Scientist.
She's in good, if unhappy,
company: An apparently growing number of foreign
scientists, despite having current, valid work permits, are being stranded
outside the country while several U.S. agencies perform background checks.
Recent headlines (including the indictment last year of a Columbia University
scientist charged with disclosing confidential clinical trial results to a hedge fund, in breach of his consulting contract with the trial sponsor) demonstrate the danger of disclosing confidential information to an
outside company, especially when the information might be used in connection with illegal insider trading.
Following four congressional hearings, NIH director Elias Zerhouni announced regulations prohibiting all NIH staff
scientists from accepting
outside income from biotech or pharmaceutical
companies.
(Posit Science paid for the study, but some trials were conducted by
outside scientists with no financial stake in the
company, such as Zelinski at USC and neuropsychologist Glenn Smith at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.)
However,
companies can help to smooth the transition, and individual
scientists can take their own steps to prepare for life
outside the ivory tower.
No one
outside of Amgen knows exactly who tampered with the findings, but the
company says that the
scientist has since been let go, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Rather, Scott Partridge, Monsanto's vice president of global strategy, says Monsanto
scientists will work with
outside scientists to help them access research data and other scientific information held by the
company.
«Some of the best
scientists I know are in industry, and none of them will ever get the recognition they deserve because they don't present it
outside the
company,» he says.
It seems that the always - tricky transition to industry jobs, combined with the current economic condition, has led more than a few
scientists and engineers to consider options
outside the main career tracks, including starting their own
company.
The
company said it's looking for submissions from
outside the traditional publishing industry, including «serious writers, thinkers,
scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers.»
By 1982, the
company's own
scientists, collaborating with
outside researchers, created rigorous climate models — computer programs that simulate the workings of the climate to assess the impact of emissions on global temperatures.