New MRC head
| 3 August, 2010 | Adie Chan |
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Last week, the Medical Research Council announced it was appointing John Savill as its new chief executive.
Savill seems to have the right experience — he is now head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and the country’s chief scientific advisory for health.
But it’s a tough gig — the public agency is expected to have to make serious spending cuts this Fall, according to Nature News, after spending more than
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I would respectfully suggest that Dr Savill follow up on what his predecessors neglected to do – and that is to conduct a systematic review into the efficacy of non-human primate research and compare historical findings of animal experiments with clinical outcomes in human subjects.