TY - JOUR
T1 - Interview - The intersection of basic science and health policy
T2 - A conversation with Victor Velculescu
AU - Culliton, Barbara J.
AU - Velculescu, Victor
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - Basic scientists should probably focus their attention on medical innovation, according to Victor Velculescu, who is part of a group at Johns Hopkins that recently discovered 200 new genes related to cancer. Velculescu believes that most research scientists probably do not know enough about health policy to play a major role in its development. However, as he notes in this interview, scientists have an important part to play - indeed, an obligation to explain their work and its relevance to legislators and to the general public - because it is scientists who can best alert policymakers to what is on the health care horizon.
AB - Basic scientists should probably focus their attention on medical innovation, according to Victor Velculescu, who is part of a group at Johns Hopkins that recently discovered 200 new genes related to cancer. Velculescu believes that most research scientists probably do not know enough about health policy to play a major role in its development. However, as he notes in this interview, scientists have an important part to play - indeed, an obligation to explain their work and its relevance to legislators and to the general public - because it is scientists who can best alert policymakers to what is on the health care horizon.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.w27
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.w27
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 18042563
AN - SCOPUS:40949123239
SN - 0278-2715
VL - 27
SP - w27-w33
JO - Health Affairs
JF - Health Affairs
IS - 1
ER -