Jump to full article: Times Of London (uk), 2001-06-12
Author: OLIVER WRIGHT
Intro: SIXTEEN medical staff have resigned from Nottingham University in protest at the acceptance of a multimillion-pound grant from a tobacco company.
Malcolm Stevens, the university’s head of cancer research, described the departures as humiliating. He said yesterday that the resignation of David Thurston and his team of 15 researchers would make Nottingham a “minor player” in the cancer field.
He said that the university’s decision to accept a £3.8 million grant from British American Tobacco was misguided and that it had been made without consultation with academic staff. “We have always aspired at Nottingham to be a major international player in cancer research,” he said. “But as a result of the university’s decision I think we will now be a very minor player. It is a disastrous humiliation.”
Nottingham’s decision to accept the BAT money to set up Britain’s first international centre for corporate social responsibility has already been widely condemned by academics and students at the university. . .
Sources at the university said yesterday that unease about the BAT grant was growing even among other clinicians. A letter calling for BAT’s money to be given back is being circulated among its paediatrics experts.
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We have always aspired at Nottingham to be a major international player in cancer research. But as a result of the university’s decision I think we will now be a very minor player. It is a disastrous humiliation.
Malcolm Stevens, Nottingham university’s head of cancer research, on the resignation of David Thurston and his team of 15 researchers over the BAT "Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility." WRIGHT, O.<I>University cancer team quits over tobacco aid</I>
I don’t think there’s any evidence of a general exodus of people.
Unidentified Nottingham University spokesman, after yet another departure over the BAT "Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility," this time by an entire team. WRIGHT, O.<I>University cancer team quits over tobacco aid</I>
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