The State of Biomedical Science in the US — How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do?
HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesThe 177th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine Abstract: The decades following the Vandervar Bush report on governmental investment in scientific research were times of extraordinary growth and innumerable accomplishments for the US biomedical research enterprise. NIH funding grew from 45 million dollars in 1945 to over 41 billion dollars by 2020. Health outcomes improved dramatically,...