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Larry H. Bernstein, MD, FCAP, Curator

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The Problem in Biomedical Education​   Henry Bourne (UCSF)

Dr. Henry Bourne has trained graduate students and postdocs at UCSF for over 40 years. In his iBiology talk, he discusses the imminent need for change in graduate education. With time to degrees getting longer, the biomedical community needs to create experimental graduate programs to find more effective and low cost ways to train future scientists and run successful laboratories. If we don’t start looking for solutions, the future of the biomedical enterprise will grow increasingly unstable.

Watch Henry Bourne’s iBioMagazine: The Problem in Biomedical Education

Henry Bourne is Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California – San Francisco. His research focused on trimeric G-proteins, G-protein coupled receptors, and the cellular signals responsible for polarity and direction-finding of human leukocytes. He is the author of several books including a memoir, Ambition and Delight, and has written extensively about graduate training and biomedical workforce issues. Now Dr. Bourne’s research focuses on the organization and founding of US biomedical research in the early 20th century.

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• Bruce Alberts, Marc Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, Harold Varmus iBioMagazine: Rescuing US Biomedical Research
• Kristin Krukenberg, Sarah Mazzilli, Gary McDowell, Jessica Polka iBioMagazine: Shaping the Future of Research
• Jon Lorsch iBioMagazine: Lab Size: Is Bigger Better?
• Gregory Petsko iBioMagazine: The Post-doctoral Situation

• Watch his archived Q&A on postdocs and the biomedical workforce