tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Lost in translation"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Lost in translation. | Petsko Genome Biology 2010 11 107 http 2010 11 2 107 w Genome Biology COMMENT L__ Lost in translation Gregory A Petsko Francis Collins the current director of the NIH who I might add has got off to an excellent start made a somewhat provocative remark after assuming his new position last year. Interviewed for The New York Times last October 5 October 2009 http . com 2009 10 06 health pagewanted all Collins is quoted as saying We re not the National Institutes of Basic Sciences we re the National Institutes of Health. This remark came in the context of Collins declared wish to encourage academic researchers to consider commercializing their ideas or pursuing drug development in universities given the increasingly barren state of pharmaceutical company labs. This reminded me of an article I read some time ago which I largely agreed with but which made me hopping mad at the same time. It was Big biology is here to stay by Steven Wiley a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Fellow and director of PNNL s Biomolecular Systems Initiative which appeared in the The Scientist http article display 54854 . Subtitled Why R01-funded biologists should throw their support behind large-scale science projects the thesis of the article was that The business of the National Institutes of Health NIH is to fund research that improves people s health not fund our personal research projects. In the article Wiley confesses that he originally thought the Human Genome Project would be a waste of money but now thinks we were all wrong . He goes on to say that Starting new large-scale research projects was a clear demonstration that NIH was willing to try new approaches to accelerate biomedical research. trying to shift funds away from these large projects will ensure that they do fail and will be self-defeating in the long run. We d better hope these projects are successful and we should do all we can to help them. Now given