The Importance of Funding Medical Research

In a guest essay in the New York Times about the value of public funding for medical research, physician-scientist author Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, mentioned the groundbreaking research done decades ago by Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, and Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery, which positioned the world to be able to respond to the COVID pandemic.