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INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING OF US IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH Panel on International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE PREPUBLICATION COPY National Academy Press Washington, DC 1999
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This document may be reproduced solely for educations purposes without Me written permission of Me National Academy of Sciences. Printed In Me United States of America
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International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research 3 .
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4 International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research .
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GLIMCHER, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine, Hanrard Medical School, Department of Inununology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge, Massachusetts DAVID V GOEDDEL, President and Chief Executive Officer, Turk, Inc., South San Francisco, California HUGE MCDEVITT, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California DIANE MATHIS, Directeur de Recherches, Institut de Genetique et de Biologic Moleculaire et Cellulaire Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Strasbourg, France GUSTAV NOSSAL, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia ROGER M
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ALBERTS,* President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC PETER DIAMOND, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA GERALD DINNEEN,*
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BOND, President, The Burroughs Welicome Fund, Durham, NC RUBY B HEARN, Senior Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ RICHARD B
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Both reports stated that quantitative measures, such as number of dollars spent and number of scientists supported, are inadequate indicators of leadership and that policy decisions about programmatic issues or resource allocation would be better informed by comparative international assessments. To measure international leadership, the reports recommended the establishment of independent panels that would conduct comparative international assessments of scientific accomplishments in particular research fields.
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We wish to thank the following for their participation in the review of this report: Jeffrey Bluestone, Director, Ben May Institute for Cancer Research Suzan Covens, Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology Frank Fitch, Albert D Lasker Professor Emeritus, Ben May Institute for Cancer Research Maureen Henderson, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington Richard Locksley, Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco Tak Mak Ontario Cancer Institute, Department of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Car]
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