EXHIBIT 1.
Characteristics Of Respondents, Survey Of Academic Researchers Regarding Academic-Industry Relationships, 2006
| All faculty (N = 2.168)
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Clinical facultya (n= 1,071)
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Nonclinical facultyb (n = 1,097)
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| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| Male | 1,549 | 72 | 729 | 69 | 820 | 76 |
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| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Asian | 314 | 15 | 155 | 15 | 159 | 15 |
| Black or African American | 22 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| White | 1,705 | 80 | 832 | 79 | 873 | 81 |
| Other | 47 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 23 | 2 |
| Declined to report | 57 | 3 | 31 | 3 | 26 | 2 |
| Hispanic, any race | 56 | 3 | 29 | 3 | 27 | 3 |
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| Years in profession | ||||||
| 0–5 | 32 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
| 6–10 | 235 | 11 | 126 | 12 | 109 | 10 |
| 11–20 | 685 | 32 | 363 | 34 | 322 | 30 |
| 21–30 | 675 | 32 | 322 | 30 | 353 | 33 |
| 31–40 | 370 | 17 | 164 | 15 | 206 | 19 |
| 41+ | 142 | 7 | 62 | 6 | 80 | 7 |
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| Academic rank | ||||||
| Professor | 962 | 45 | 363 | 34 | 599 | 55c |
| Associate professor | 563 | 28 | 302 | 28 | 261 | 24 |
| Assistant professor | 561 | 26 | 339 | 32 | 222 | 20 |
| Other | 63 | 3 | 59 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
SOURCE: Authors’ analysis of the 2006 Academic-Industry Relationships Faculty Survey.
a
Defined by employment within a department of medicine, anesthesiology, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics/gynecology, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiation/oncology, or surgery.
b
Defined by their employment within a department of anatomy/cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, or physiology/biophysics, or within a department or doctoral-level degree program in genetics.
c
p<0.01, chi-square comparing clinical to nonclinical faculty.