UK Panel for Research Integrity: more than a smokescreen.

摘要

Your Oct 25 Editorial1 on the work of the UK Panel for Research Integrity, which I chair, is full of errors.You state that the Panel is "funded and hosted by Universities UK-the representative body for the universities' executive heads". In fact, the Panel receives most of its funding from sources otherthan Universities UK.They include the Medical Research Council, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Health. Additionally, the Panel is governed by an independent board, rather than by instructions from any of its funding bodies.