July 9, 2004, Hour One: NIH Confict of Interest/ Monkey Brains and Prostethics

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Hour One: NIH Confict of Interest/ Monkey Brains and Prostethics

Congress is looking into charges that some scientists at the National Institutes of Health have taken money from private companies and universities that, in turn, receive grants or other favorable treatment from the N-I-H. In this hour of Science Friday, join guest host Joe Palca for a look at money, research and conflict-of-interest.

Plus, researchers say that by monitoring the brains of monkeys they can "see" the monkeys think about moving a computer cursor. How might that work one day help paralyzed people? We'll find out in this hour.

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Guests:
Elias Zerhouni
Director, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Jim Greenwood
Representative, 8th District, Pennsylvania
Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Energy and Commerce Committee
Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Thomas H. Murray
Member, Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of Interest Policies
Bioethicist
President, The Hastings Center
Garrison, New York

James Siedow
Member, Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of Interest Policies
Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

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Richard Andersen
James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

This segment produced by Annette Heist

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