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January 28, 1997
Recycling at NIH: What's Up?
NIMH Welcomes Minority Students
NIH, Hopkins Establish New Center
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
The More POR, The Better Alumnus Goldstein Calls for More Clinical Research By Rich McManus There's not much difference between smart, sympatico collaboration among clinicians and bench scientists -- who love nothing more than sharpening their wits on patient histories and data -- and the clever concoctions of lyricists and musicians who craft a hit Broadway musical. Both thrive on the rebound and ricochet of sharp ideas and a hothouse atmosphere that both adds momentum to ideas that fly, and soundly trounces notions that are half-baked.
So stated Nobel laureate
Dr. Joseph Goldstein, a former clinical associate at NHLBI
who gave the first James A. Shannon Lecture on Jan. 13
before a packed house at Masur Auditorium. Goldstein --
now a professor and department
chair at the medical school (University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center) from which he earned his M.D.
-- erected his argument that "there has never been a better
time for M.D.s to do clinical research" upon the formidable
foundation of Shannon's career; the former NIH director
(1955-1968) is credited with shaping much of the modern NIH
and was himself an ardent clinician as well as bench
scientist. |