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Nature 448, 406-407 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448406a; Published online 25 July 2007
Research policy: The map man
Meredith Wadman1
- Meredith Wadman writes for Nature from Washington DC.
Abstract
Alan Krensky has been put in charge of a controversial new office responsible for charting the progress of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Meredith Wadman catches up with him in his first few days on the job.
Hurrying in to an interview on his second official day as the de facto roadmap czar at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Alan Krensky is absently clutching a piece of paper; he's proud to hand it over for inspection. On it, the physician-scientist has charted a year's worth of trans-NIH 'rounds' — expert talks on cross-agency topics from network theory to pharmacogenomics to health economics.
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