Accepting commercial sponsorship

Conference Sponsorship

Cosponsors Artificial Intelligence Journal Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación National Science Foundation (NSF) Universitat de Barcelona Knowtion TCA Software Solutions Yahoo! Labs Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGUAR) Agreement Technologies Project Alear Project Google NICTA Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) iSOCO ECCAI ESADE Business School IBM Research M...

Sponsorship in non-commercial clinical trials: definitions, challenges and the role of Good Clinical Practices guidelines

BACKGROUND Non-commercial clinical research plays an increasingly essential role for global health. Multiple partners join in international consortia that operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period. One organisation (the sponsor) designs and carries out the trial in collaboration with research partners, and is ultimately responsible for the trial's scientific, ethical, reg...

The Nuffield Sponsorship Ends

Accepting brain death.

death was determined by means of multiple independent neurologic examinations, including one ordered by a court. Her family refused to accept that she had died and went to court to prevent physicians at Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland from discontinuing ventilator support. Per a court-supervised agreement, the body was given to the family 3 weeks after the initial determinati...

Sponsorship, authorship, and accountability.

s editors of general medical journals, we recognize that the publication of clinical-research findings in respected peer-reviewed journals is the ultimate basis for most treatment decisions. Public discourse about this published evidence of efficacy and safety rests on the assumption that clinical-trials data have been gathered and are presented in an objective and dispassionate manner. This di...