"I'm going to get on my soapbox a little bit," Andrew Satterlee says. "There's a gap in academia between what journals and grants want, and what patients actually need."
Dr. Satterlee is a cancer researcher at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who studies brain tumors. And he's not afraid to mince words about some of the roadblocks he sees in medical research.
"We all want our technologies, the things that we're spending so much time and energy and money preparing, we want those to get to patients," Satterlee says. But, he adds, that often requires a lot more than just writing grants and authoring papers. It means understanding how to develop a clinical trial, for example, or how to move through the regulatory process…
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