Discovering New Darwins

Discovering New Darwins Charles Darwin was lucky. Without the financial support of his family, all of his powers of observation and analysis might have gone for naught. Today, of course, most scientists do not depend on their families to fund their research. Instead, the U.S. federal government began investing heavily in science in the mid-20th century. As a result, says Dr. Ethan Dmitrovsky, the United States has been a leader in the biomedical revolution. Dmitrovsky, a DMS professor of pharmacology and toxicology, argues in this audio essay that lagging support for research in recent years risks ending the nation's tradition of scientific success. This is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to: http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/winter08/html/point_of_view.php