MRC Faces Rockier Road Ahead

MRC Faces Rockier Road Ahead

Leszek Borysiewicz, known as Borys, has firmly stamped his authority on the UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) since arriving as its chief executive in October 2007. But last November, he shocked British biomedical researchers by announcing that he will depart this autumn to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The Cam-bridge job is, of course, a pinnacle of European higher e...

The road ahead.

The recent events dedicated to eHealth, such as eHealth 2003 and eHealth 2004 Ministerial conferences and exhibition, demonstrated clearly that a critical mass of users is being created who already use eHealth services and applications. Citizens, patients and health professionals are experiencing growing benefits from the use of eHealth applications which can increase citizen information, incre...

Cancer: The Road Ahead

Fighting cancer has been the life mission for generations of biologists and clinicians, and to this effort we dedicate this issue of Cell. This reviews issue highlights the converging paths in cancer research that are enabling changes in clinical treatment and removing obstacles between patients in need and access to effective care. Empowered by these breakthroughs, it is possible to imagine ma...

The road ahead.

I describe the surrounding landscape on the road to the CERN Large Hadron Collider. I revisit the milestones of hadron-collider physics, and from them draw lessons for the future. I recall the primary motivation for the journey — understanding the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking — and speculate that even greater discoveries may await us. I review the physics that we know beyond the s...

The Road Ahead