title: Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock.
abstract: In the year-end editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors ask 11 researchers and clinicians about the most relevant challenges, promising research, and important initiatives in their fields as we head into 2016.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Joint Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ewan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Birney
authors.affiliation: Neuropathologist and Director, Brain Tumour Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Graeber
authors.affiliation: Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tumwine
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Phillipa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hay
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyeong Sik
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.affiliation: The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Anushka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: du Cros
authors.affiliation: Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: Lorenz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: von Seidlein
authors.affiliation: MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wareham
authors.affiliation: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Low
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration; D004501:Education, Medical; D006291:Health Policy; D013672:Technology