The message that the future is as important as the present was emphasized in comments from Scripps Clinic neuroscientist Floyd Bloom, who chaired the committee that issued last month's report. "While it was clear that we need more money," says Bloom, "our goal was to maximize our use of existing resources. We want to be in a position to assure our sponsors, if more money becomes available in the future, that we have a comprehensive plan for spending it most effectively."
WASHINGTON--The latest battlefield in the ongoing war over priorities within the biomedical research community is the congressional Biomedical Research Caucus. The caucus, which has signed up 18 members of Congress as of the first of October, made its debut earlier this month at an afternoon symposium and reception on Capitol Hill that featured Harold Varmus, a microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and a 1989 Nobel laureate ...
