Anlyan says that, as the new chairman of the Alexandria-Va.-based organization--which has 165 institutional members across the United States--"I see great potential to increase the public's understanding of the importance of biomedical research." Anlyan intends to pay particular attention to broadening the awareness of scientific research among young people in the United States.
The U.S., Anlyan says, is already the clear leader in biomedical research, but he believes the government should be funding more basic studies.
He notes that biomedical research has already led to great progress in medicine. In this regard, he says, "The beginning of September marked the 45th anniversary of the first day I became a third-year medical student at Yale. I put on a short white coat and stethoscope around my neck. At the university hospital, we had a whole wing that was filled with infectious diseases: one floor of tuberculosis, another floor of polio, and ...
