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SUMMARY:A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited - Professor
  Sir David Weatherall FRS\, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine\, U
 niversity of Oxford
DTSTART:20150223T180000Z
DTEND:20150223T190000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Over the centuries there has been continuous disagreement abou
 t the relative roles of the contributions of the laboratory sciences compa
 red with careful observation at the bedside for the improvement of medical
  care.  More recently\, the two fields have become less divided and after 
 the success of the human genome project it was claimed that within 20 year
 s medical practice would become personalised and that many of our major ki
 llers would be controlled.  Partly because this was found to be an over-op
 timistic prediction and for reasons that are still not clear\nthere have b
 een recent attacks on the value of basic medical research and claims that 
 it has had very little effect on the improvement of health care.  In this 
 lecture the case will be made that these recent criticisms of the role of 
 the basic sciences in medical\nresearch are completely erroneous and how a
  better balance between the basic and clinical aspects of research in the 
 future can be integrated towards the production of higher standards of cli
 nical practice\, not just for richer countries but for improving the healt
 h of the populations of the developing world.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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