For their work in taking a basic biomedical discovery all the way through to a clinical therapy, Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Toshio Hirano, both of Osaka University, will get the bioscience and medical science prize.
Many areas of public health could be revolutionized by the banking of organs and other complex tissues, including transplantation, oncofertility, tissue engineering, trauma medicine and emergency preparedness, basic biomedical research and drug discovery – and even space travel.
The investigator-initiated framework is highly effective for basic research and has yielded major biomedical discoveries.
In clinical medicine, health services administration, education, and basic biomedical sciences, computers and networks are fundamental tools of discovery, learning, decision making and management.
The discovery of bioactive compounds underpins many areas of basic biomedical research and constitutes a large part of medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.
In the long term, the sequester threatens to cut out a generation of basic biomedical research.
"Clearly, we thought it was an appropriate recognition of the commitment he and his wife have displayed to basic biomedical research," the Merck spokesman, Greg Reaves, said.
The pharmaceutical industry, for example, relies on basic biomedical research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health for its very existence.
► "The famed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, New York, a bastion of basic biomedical research, is making a major foray into more applied drug development" by partnering with a local hospital to "mov[e] basic cancer discoveries into the clinic," Jocelyn Kaiser wrote on Thursday.
English health innovation policy initially focused on basic biomedical research.
