This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Statistics and Research Methods  • Surgery  • Plastic Surgery  • Journalology/ Peer Review/ Authorship  • Conflict of Interest  • Alert me on articles by topic

Dilemmas and Decisions

Arch Facial Plast Surg. 1999;1:158.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

PEER-REVIEWED MEDICAL journals are increasingly involved in dilemmas created by complex financial relationships between their scientist authors and the world of business.

To accomplish the journal mission, editors and reviewers must be aware of any conflicts of interest and create a system and environment where any associated bias is minimized.

Approximately 20 years ago Herbert Boyer, a professor of molecular biology at the University of California, San Francisco, founded the Genentech Corporation, San Francisco. Since then, the rise of biotechnology companies with university affiliations has necessitated detailed contracts to balance academic and scientific ideals with corporate business needs. Patents, license agreements, publishing rights, and similar issues have required compromises on both sides. In the smaller universe of facial plastic surgery research, our authors work closely not only with biotechnology companies but with many others as well to develop biomaterials, lasers, new surgical devices, etc. These are usually positive partnerships where . . . [Full Text of this Article]