Top Choice for French Post Drops Out in Industry Flap

摘要

France's premier epidemiology institute thought it had a strong candidate to become its new director. Paolo Boffetta, an Italian epidemiologist, spent 18 years at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an authoritative World Health Organization body in Lyon, France. An author on more than 900 papers, Boffetta is now director of the Institute for Transla-tional Epidemiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He had already helped develop a 5-year plan for the French institute, the Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) in Villejuif, which was submitted for an external review. But Boffetta also has ties to industry that some of his colleagues view as routine-but others regard as disqualifying him from the job.