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Up-and-coming researchers who are blazing a trail in their respective fields share what they are most excited about and where their research going in the next 5 years.
Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2023, from cervical and prostate cancer screening to new drugs for Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
This year saw breakthroughs in several fields, spurred by research in basic science and technology. Here is our selection of critical developments that moved medicine forward in 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage in 2021, but this was increasingly an unequal pandemic, with rich countries receiving millions of doses of vaccine and ending lockdowns and travel bans. It was also a year when policymakers started to prepare for the next inevitable pandemic.