title: Repaving the road to biomedical innovation through academia.
abstract: Biomedical innovation requires investigators to build on existing knowledge and achieve insights that are transformative. Innovation starts with incisive scientific discoveries, which are often made in academic research laboratories. Today, the financial model for supporting biomedical research in universities is threatened, and one victim is innovation. New models for public funding that support high-risk research in academia will spur innovation and ultimately advance clinical medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. arm42@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Marks
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends*; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends*; D012922:Social Change; D014495:Universities / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends*