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Research mentioned in San Jose Mercury News
San Jose, CA, March 23, 2005 — The San Jose Mercury News, known as the newspaper of Silicon Valley, has published a feature article about the Glaucoma Research Foundation’s collaborative approach to biomedical research.
The article, titled “Patrnerships in Science Aim to Speed Up Research,” begins:
The process that could build a Model T Ford in hours has since revolutionized how we package foods, make clothing and assemble computers. Now, a new ‘assembly-line’ approach is shaking up biomedical research. It doesn’t necessarily see disease cures as products to be churned out on schedule. But it does reinvigorate stagnant research areas by inviting far-flung scientists to divvy up problems too complex for any one laboratory to tackle alone.
“What our group brings to bear is not a particular expertise in the eye but expertise in different aspects of neurological function,” said Vanderbilt University retina expert David Calkins, one of the four scientists selected for the collaboration, called Catalyst For a Cure.