Comments on: AstraZeneca Ties To Nobel Foundation Questioned http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/12/astrazeneca-ties-to-nobel-foundation-questioned/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:58:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michael http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/12/astrazeneca-ties-to-nobel-foundation-questioned/#comment-385293 Michael Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:13:50 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=18604#comment-385293 The award for HPV is not the only one that is tainted. The other half of the award went for HIV. Nobel committee member Pr. Jan Andersson, the Nobel "Spokesperson" for the award, is on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline since 1999 for hiv vaccines, and is founder of AVARIS, a Swedish company producing treatments and vaccine for hiv. How convenient! Whatever sells hiv vaccine will benefit him directly! He too, by the way, is also being investigated by the dept of corruption. That makes 3 out of 5 of the prize choosing members currently under suspicion of conflicts of interest and benefiting from the choice of awards. The award for HPV is not the only one that is tainted. The other half of the award went for HIV.

Nobel committee member Pr. Jan Andersson, the Nobel “Spokesperson” for the award, is on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline since 1999 for hiv vaccines, and is founder of AVARIS, a Swedish company producing treatments and vaccine for hiv.

How convenient! Whatever sells hiv vaccine will benefit him directly!

He too, by the way, is also being investigated by the dept of corruption. That makes 3 out of 5 of the prize choosing members currently under suspicion of conflicts of interest and benefiting from the choice of awards.

]]> By: Jack2 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/12/astrazeneca-ties-to-nobel-foundation-questioned/#comment-384791 Jack2 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:40:45 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=18604#comment-384791 Yeah, it's a shame that a company dedicated to developing new medicines can support an organization that awards a nobel prize in medicine. We should also crack down on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts - they actual get to decide who gets an Oscar! And don't even get me started on the Intel awarding those scholarships at an engineering fair. Yeah, it’s a shame that a company dedicated to developing new medicines can support an organization that awards a nobel prize in medicine. We should also crack down on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts - they actual get to decide who gets an Oscar! And don’t even get me started on the Intel awarding those scholarships at an engineering fair.

]]> By: Philip Rudnick http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/12/astrazeneca-ties-to-nobel-foundation-questioned/#comment-384763 Philip Rudnick Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:53:29 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=18604#comment-384763 Since Big Pharma has financial ties to the bioethics institutions, the NIH, including the National Library of Medicine, the FDA, Congress and the Presidency of the United States, why shouldn't it have financial ties to the Nobel Prize Foundation? Question: Can anyone cite ANY area of the Medical Establishment, Academic Medicine, or Healthcare to which Big Pharma does not have financial ties? Since Big Pharma has financial ties to the bioethics institutions, the NIH, including the National Library of Medicine, the FDA, Congress and the Presidency of the United States, why shouldn’t it have financial ties to the Nobel Prize Foundation?

Question:
Can anyone cite ANY area of the Medical Establishment, Academic Medicine, or Healthcare
to which Big Pharma does not have financial ties?

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