Blogs about Biomedical Innovation
2007-10-02 01:32 Future States, but not including Massachusetts
I was invited to speak at a National Academy of Engineering symposium today entitled "Health care as an adaptive enterprise, an engineering challenge." My fellow panelists were Christopher Meyer, Chief Executive of Monitor Networks ; William B. Rouse, Executive Director of the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech; W. Mark Saltzman, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University; and Jerome H. Grossman, Director of the Harvard Health Care Delivery Project. The proceedings wi …
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2007-08-24 07:24 Outpatient clinic of innovation
An interesting idea from Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo. (There are some similar concepts that I know of from the US, like MIT´s Center for Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, but this one has its own unique features.) Here´s a summary from Andreas Moan, Director of Research and Education: The Clinic of Innovation is run like any traditional out-patient clinic with one major difference: The purpose of this Clinic is to facilitate the conversion of ideas from research and medi …
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2007-08-15 17:08 Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: U.S. Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans: Scientific and Medical Rese …
By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., Jessica B. Rubin, Michelle Treseler, Elise Schlissel, Jefferson Lin and David Mattos * In the year 1900, you had beaten the odds if you saw your 49th birthday, as the average life expectancy for Americans was 48 years. The leading killers then were infectious diseases like tuberculosis, diphtheria, and influenza. Smallpox had a large and lethal presence as well. For women, death also came from complications of childbirth. Today, Americans will live on average 30 ye …
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2007-08-12 15:04 Hidden order found in a quantum spin liquid
Image of quantum order made using neutrons by the LCN (London Centre for Nanotechnology)/UCL team and its collaborators from the US and Japan at the ISIS particle accelerator in the UK. The sharp red peak in the middle of the picture corresponds to nearly perfect quantum coherence or order. An international team, including scientists from the London Center for Nanotechnology, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" that extends over chains of 100 atoms in a ceramic without classical magne …
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2007-08-08 17:05 MIT Professor Explains Resignation, Charging Unconscious Discrimination Against Minorities
MIT, people, Douglas, Discrimination Robert Buderi wrote: There's an interesting discussion going on at The Scientist 's website about discrimination in academia, and particularly at MIT. The conversation was sparked by an essay written by Frank Douglas, formerly Professor of the Practice at MIT and director of the school's Center for Biomedical Innovation. Douglas, who is black, resigned last June in the wake of the institute's decision to deny tenure to James Sherley, another black professor w …
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2007-08-06 13:20 Access to university research and innovations
I've long believed that there are parallels between the global campaign for open access to the biomedical literature and the campaign for access to essential medicines. For a start, both information and medicines can promote health and save lives. Indeed the late James Grant, former executive director of Unicef, argued that, the most urgent task before us is to get medical and health knowledge to those most in need of that knowledge. Of the approximately 50 million people who were dying each ye …
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2007-07-30 16:11 FDA's Implementing Visionary: A Conversation With COO John Dyer
FDA's efforts to help usher in the bioinformatics era are personified by Deputy Commissioner for Operations John Dyer. Dyer, former chief operating officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has now joined FDA in the same capacity ( 1"The Pink Sheet" Jan. 29, 2007, p. 16). The scope of Dyer's responsibilities could be most clearly viewed through a bifocal lens, with the day-to-day job of managing administrative operations within the commissioner's office, and the long-term job o …
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2007-07-30 15:43 Ten Questions with Moira Gunn: How Does an Internet Babe* Make the Leap to Biotech
Moira Gunn hosts Tech Nation and its popular segment BioTech Nation, which airs weekly on over 200 public radio stations, on the NPR channels on Sirius Satellite Radio, internationally on American Forces Radio International, and to anyone, anywhere over the Internet. Originally a computer scientist and engineer, Moira started BioTech Nation rather unexpectedly in the spring of 2004 and now, she s written a book about her experience called Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the …
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2007-07-24 13:42 The rats of NIMH
If ever someone were to write the book on how to screw up a highly successful country, the last six years will likely serve as chapter one. Granted, things aren't nearly as dismal as they seem since some events like 9-11 and Katrina were nominally out of our control until we were able to screw up the response. But most of our recent history has been characterized by a malevolent neglect of the things that worked in the past while simultaneously resurrecting many of our past failures. The NIH fun …
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2007-07-16 14:09 Selling Science
Two weeks ago, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story called "The Amateur Hour" about how "America's basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers," are reviving NASA's space program. It was an uplifting story that should inspire nostalgia in anyone who ever participated in a high school science fair. But why do we need amateurs, one might ask What about America's professional inventors U.S. culture and global influence is based on its perennial quest to find, as Micha …
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2007-07-16 14:08 Saving Koalas From Chlamydia
Who knew the cute koala bears were so promiscuous Professor Peter Timms from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation said chlamydia in koalas was a significant cause of infertility, urinary tract infections, and inflammation in the lining of the eye that often led to blindness. "The numbers of koalas with chlamydia seems to be increasing," he said. The first Australian trials of a vaccine developed by Queensland University of Technology that could save Australia's iconic koala from c …
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2007-07-16 13:05 Eliminating Chlamydia in Koalas
Wow... I knew that many animals had herpes and if you want to get a herpes free lab animal it costs many times what a 'normal' herpes carrying animal does. But wow... Chlamydia in Koalas! Maybe some of you bio people out there can tell us whether it's the same Chlamydia humans carry. So basically If I go to Australia and nail a koala - can I catch it and give it to my sheep Here's the exciting details on how Australian scientists are going to protect the koala population from STD's. Professor Pe …
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2007-07-06 16:46 Sherley It's Time For An Update
The case of James Sherley's employment at MIT is still one of the most common searches leading to my web site, and there continue to be developments. To catch up, check out my first entry on this topic. (For you bloggers trying to get listed higher on Google, it actually *helps* to make a little spelling error deep in the entry...) According to a news feature in Science Magazine last month, the biological engineering professor was asked to leave his position on June 30, 2007. Of note is that Fra …
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2007-07-03 13:41 Update: the James Sherley Tenure Case at MIT
You may recall this post that I wrote in February about James Sherley's tenure case at MIT. Since he ended his twelve day hunger strike in February Sherley, whose research is on adult stem cells, has continued his activism. He has acquired at least one ally, Frank L. Douglas, executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation, who resigned a few weeks ago to protest MIT's failure to reconsider the Sherley decision. I believe that Sherley has been on hunger strike at least one other t …
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2007-06-30 12:17 links for 2007-06-30
Researchers find 'large is smart' when it comes to cities Argues that cities are more innovative the larger they become. Coauthor Jose Lobo: "The increase you get in wealth creation is greater than the increase in size of the city... large cities have managed to out run their problems.... Large is smart." (tags: architecture cities economics urban urbanization innovation ) Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities -- Bettencourt et al., 10.1073/pnas.0610172104 -- Proceedings of …
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2006-10-26 11:25 InnovationWell Membership & Workshop Activity for 2007
During November I will be planning the program for the following InnovationWell workshop in Oxford (cross-industry sector) and InterAction Meeting in Bryn Mawr (life science/pharma/healthcare sector). Please contact me with your interests and proposals! Knowledge Assessment & Performance Improvement of Collaborative Work and Innovation Activities InnovationWell Workshop & Innovation Café, accompanied by pre-meeting 2 day hands-on workshop activities on collaborative systems and ELNs 20-22 June 2 …
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