To make it clear - @tibmolbiol, the company, did not "heavily cooperate" with me to write a 2002 review of real-time PCR. Katherine Arden and Andreas Nitsche leveraged their skillsets to create that lit review with me. Dr Nitsche was & is a scientist in his own right.
You can see some of Dr Nitsche's impressive research output here
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=andreas+…
The question of whether Dr Nitsche is still affiliated with TiB is strange but it's not one I can answer. I see nothing nefarious with him being, or not being, affiliated. TiB is a huge provider of fee-for-service oligos * kits around the world
The fact that in my research days I paid the company for oligos - and many other oligo-, reagent- and disposables providers of course - does not sully my co-authorship with a scientist who, for a time, worked there. It's called collaboration.
Next. Does Ian "consult the WHO". I guess this means *for* the WHO?
Yes, I was an invited presenter/WHO-EMRO technical advisor at the First WHO-EMRO training workshop on MERS-CoV laboratory diagnostics, Dubai, UAE. Tweeted about that at the time eg &
. But no other formal consulting role before or since.
Yes, there are links to be found among companies and researchers here; but the simple reason is that these researchers are world leaders at creating diagnostics for emerging CoVs, & these companies are world leaders at getting those into kits and then around the world.

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