Published 2 September 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3443
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3443

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Research Ethics

In clear sight

Despite measures to improve transparency of research funding, Marisa de Andrade finds there is still scope for confusion

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On a Friday night in March 2009, I joined more than 30 doctors gathered at the Gleneagles Hotel for predinner drinks. We were attending a weekend meeting at the invitation of the University of Dundee’s Hypertension Research Centre and Medicines Monitoring Unit after "positive feedback" from a similar gathering in January. Both meetings aimed to provide practices with sufficient information about the Standard Care versus Celecoxib Outcome Trial (SCOT) to enable general practitioners to decide whether to participate.

The invitation did not mention Pfizer, although the drug company was providing £26m (30m; $43m) for the study.¹ Instead, the trial was described as "an academic, investigator-initiated study, requested by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and sponsored by the University of Dundee." The university is working in partnership with the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen and collaborating with researchers from Nottingham University and the University of Southern Denmark.^{2 3}

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