Harvard Medical School is halfway toward its goal of raising $750 million in its piece of the ongoing University-wide capital campaign, the school announced Thursday afternoon. The campaign’s four priorities include better educating students and increasing student financial aid; understanding and curing disease by supporting biomedical informatics, therapeutic science, and other fields; improving health systems through increased focus on global health, health care systems, and primary care; and providing flexible funding for health research and change. Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, is quoted.
The Pentagon plans to halt the use of live animals in a variety of medical training programs, according to internal documents, putting it on a path to join the civilian medical community and most Western militaries, which have already banned such practices. John Pawlowski, assistant professor of anaesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
Marc Kirschner, John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology and head of the Department of Systems Biology, was one of the Harvard faculty co-authors of this opinion peice, about the unanimous Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote in favor of a motion asking the President and Fellows to suspend changes to University health benefits.
With tight budgets, corporate sponsorships are a crucial source of funding that make exhibits possible for all kinds of museums. Museums wrestle with how prominently to put the names of corporate donors in these displays. Susan Linn, instructor in psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
