Daily Archives: June 2, 2009

Training Next-Generation Researchers

People are the most important asset within the translational research field, according to an editorial this month in Science. It’s imperative that the investigators of tomorrow have cross-disciplinary training that allows them to leverage basic science discoveries, population sciences, genomics and bioinformatics to create treatments and delivery methods that reach beyond academia and into the community. [...]

Science reviews new Koenig Book

Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, the new book edited by Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic bioethicist, and colleagues, “raises the level and the terms of the debate” according to Science’s reviewer Troy Duster. The book, with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and Sarah Richardson sharing the editing duties, covers a wide variety of topics from the [...]