February 7, 2008
'The New Yorker': Seeking Medical Cures
Kathy Giusti runs the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, a nonprofit group she founded to fight the lethal blood cancer, like a business, writes The New Yorker (January 28). Her staff includes four scientists who track myeloma research around the world, advising her on which projects are most likely to succeed and thus deserve money.
"We try to get academics to work like businesspeople," says Ms. Giusti, a former pharmaceutical-company employee who started the organization
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