"There’s a more subtle aspect of this that’s harder to get your hands on, but I think is clear," said Lawrence Busch, a sociologist from Michigan State University who was hired by UC Berkeley’s academic senate to head an evaluation of a five-year, $25 million contract UC Berkeley signed in 1998 with pharmaceutical company Novartis to research advances in plant genetics. That evaluation concluded that the deal "compromised the mission of the university" and played a role in the 2003 tenure denial to microbiologist Ignacio Chapela, an outspoken critic of the Novartis contract. After international outcry over the decision, Chapela was granted tenure in 2005.

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by Suzanne Bohan, The Contra Costa Times.

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