An internal task force formed to investigate conflicts of interest at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has produced three initial recommendations that codify the moratoria that were put in place after multiple ethics transgressions at the cancer center were revealed by The New York Times and ProPublica last fall.
In 1999, Richard Pazdur, a GI oncologist at MD Anderson, saw an FDA recruitment ad in The New England Journal of Medicine. The agency was looking for a director of the FDA Division of Oncology Drug Products.
