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Bush’s claim that the additional funding cannot be effectively disbursed through existing channels is patently disingenuous. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria—a multilateral institution that marries private-sector efficiency with scientific expertise—lacks the support it needs to fund grants for AIDS-devastated nations. Bush requested only $200 million for the organization from Congress next year—barely half of this year’s spending. And congressional Republicans two weeks ago struck down a proposal by Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., that would have earmarked $1 billion...
Kagan also focused on the importance of public service. She praised an HLS program that gives grants to students who do work in the public sector over the summer and said she would expand the program to meet demand...
...must be prepared to work cooperatively with the private sector. We must recognize that, and this is why these issues are not easy, that conflict of interest is one side of the coin, and synergy is the other,” he said...
Porter, who is an unofficial advisor to the state’s governor and has spent much of his career studying such clusters, said that Massachusetts could gain as many as 100,000 jobs in the life sciences sector if it better exploited its concentration of expertise...
While much of the summit’s language was general, some debate lingered over the particular roles that government should play in affecting growth in the biotech sector...