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Optimizing Biomedical Discoveries As An Engine Of Culture Change In An Academic Medical Center, Anne K. Dechant, Stephen Fening, Michael Haag, William Harte, Mark R. Chance Jan 2022

Optimizing Biomedical Discoveries As An Engine Of Culture Change In An Academic Medical Center, Anne K. Dechant, Stephen Fening, Michael Haag, William Harte, Mark R. Chance

Faculty Scholarship

Academic discovery in biomedicine is a growing enterprise with tens of billions of dollars in research funding available to universities and hospitals. Protecting and optimizing the resultant intellectual property is required in order for the discoveries to have an impact on society. To achieve that, institutions must create a multidisciplinary, collaborative system of review and support, and utilize connections to industry partners. In this study, we outline the efforts of Case Western Reserve University, coordinated through its Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC), to promote entrepreneurial culture, and achieve goals of product development and startup formation for biomedical and population …


How To Lie With (Fda) Statistics, Fred D. Ledley May 2014

How To Lie With (Fda) Statistics, Fred D. Ledley

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

The FDA approved 27 new drugs in 2013. Is this a downward trend? Is it an upward trend? Does it suggest that the pharmaceutical industry is failing, or that genomics is finally paying dividends? We revisit Darrell Huff’s 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics for insights into these pressing questions.