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USC Vs. UC San Diego In Fight Over Alzheimer's Research

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: August 5th, 2015, 4:00pm UTC

New submitter BVBigelow writes: In Southern California, a legal skirmish between USC and UC San Diego is escalating into into a full-blown fracas, replete with restraining orders, loyalty oaths, and accusations of computer piracy, intimidation, and interference in federal grant awards. The two universities are fighting over control of an Alzheimer's program that coordinates about $100 million in research grants. The lawsuits began after USC recruited scientist Paul Aisen from UC San Diego, where he has been director of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study since 2007. The study has been based at UC San Diego since 1991, and and UCSD expected to retain control. But Aisen's team took root command of the computer system (including 24 years' worth of clinical trial data) and won't give it back.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=USC+Vs.+UC+San+Diego+In+Fight+Over+Alzheimer's+Research%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1g9WbEF"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F08%2F05%2F1643251%2Fusc-vs-uc-san-diego-in-fight-over-alzheimers-research%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/05/1643251/usc-vs-uc-san-diego-in-fight-over-alzheimers-research?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/08/05/1643251/usc-vs-uc-san-diego-in-fight-over-alzheimers-research?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/J4Eb-xOiljI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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