Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock

PLOS Medicine Editors; Andrew Beck; Ewan Birney; Manuel Graeber; James Tumwine; Phillipa Hay; Hyeong Sik Ahn; Anushka Patel; Philipp du Cros; Lorenz von Seidlein; Nick Wareham; Nicola Low

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001933

Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock

PLoS Med. 2015 Dec 29;12(12):e1001933. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001933. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
² Joint Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
³ Neuropathologist and Director, Brain Tumour Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁵ School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁶ Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
⁷ The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁸ Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
¹⁰ MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

In the year-end editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors ask 11 researchers and clinicians about the most relevant challenges, promising research, and important initiatives in their fields as we head into 2016.

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Editorial

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research* / classification
Biomedical Research* / organization & administration
Education, Medical*
Health Policy*
Technology*

Abstract

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Grants and funding