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WARREN, NJ -- Federal regulators are focusing more on financial conflict of interest by clinical researchers, and a federal prosecutor said here June 12 that financial conflict of interest marks ground "where law enforcement and industry will meet."
"It won't be a pretty sight," David Hoffman, assistant U.S. attorney, Philadelphia, predicted at a PricewaterhouseCoopers conference here on clinical research compliance challenges.
Hoffman said conflict of interest arises when an investigator can benefit financially from inducements such as cash, kickbacks, performance bonuses, trips, grants and honoraria. "Payments corrupt the judgment of the provider," …