40-year research veteran warns new federal grantmaking rule threatens American scientific enterprise
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David J. Skorton
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David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges and a 40-year research veteran, argues that a new federal grantmaking rule threatens the American scientific research enterprise. He highlights major breakthroughs like childhood leukemia treatments, cancer immunotherapy, and genetic disease repair that came from the current system. Skorton warns that the proposed rule would fundamentally rewire the research enterprise without good reason, turning American science into a political football.
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· 4 pulledChildhood leukemia, a likely death sentence when I was a medical student, is now survivable for most children.
Cancer immunotherapy is extending life for many who would have died a decade ago.
All of it came out of an American research enterprise that the federal government is now proposing to fundamentally rewire for no good reason.
American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football.
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