Laying the Ethical Groundwork for Precision Medicine
By Brian Herman, Published on March 30, 2015, Featured in: Healthcare President Obama’s proposed Precision Medicine Initiative promises unprecedented support for the rapidly growing field of genome-based medical therapies. The initiative will fund research into developing…
The Troubling Case of the Languishing Post-Doc
By Brian Herman. Published on March 2, 2015 Biomedical researchers are training in healthy numbers, but many are finding that the transition from their first post-doctoral position to a lab of their…
University Research Undermined by Diminishing Federal Cost-Sharing
By Brian Herman, Published on January 26, 2015 The biomedical research we rely on for advances in medicine, whether it be vaccines or cures for life-threatening disease, depends upon sufficient funding. Without…
The Top Two Higher Education Goals for the New Congress
by Brian Herman, Published on December 3, 2014 When the new Congress is sworn in come January, it should add two important items for the agenda concerning higher education – both of…
Public health crises fueled by federal funding cuts
by Brian Herman, Published on October 24, 2014 Nothing focuses the mind like a crisis. For several years, many of us in the scientific research establishment have been warning of the potential…
We need to improve the industry-academia research relationship
by Brian Herman, Published on October 6, 2014 Scientists won’t solve the world’s most pressing problems – world hunger, poor healthcare in the developing world, the spread of infectious diseases, to name…