Wafik S. El-Deiry: We’ve led the way for decades and it’s vital to do so moving into the future
Wafik S. El-Deiry, Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, shared a post on X:
“This is my view on this news from last night: I think to avoid disaster at our universities, the community should give a little while reminding the administration not only that we’ve led the way for decades but that it’s vital to do so moving into the future.
It is really hard to strongly defend high rates of indirect costs in a world where US universities expect researchers to bring in much of their salaries on grants and where it is very well known how administrators (and attorneys) have taken over. Excessive government regulations will also need to be simplified to allow research to proceed like it used to 20-30 years ago.
The truth of it is that the shock wave will motivate reform that is long overdue and so I agree with it although would have preferred a more gradual roll-out rather than a Friday evening announcement. The US government will never increase funding for cancer research with so much waste and inefficiency. It has been suggested to me that US leadership in biomedical research is vital for national security that i think would resonate with the current administration.
We need leadership to advocate in every way for that needed preeminence in biomedical research and it’s needed government investment.”
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