Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock.

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Published in PLoS Med on December 29, 2015

Authors

PLOS Medicine Editors, Andrew Beck1, Ewan Birney2, Manuel Graeber3, James Tumwine4, Phillipa Hay5, Hyeong Sik Ahn6, Anushka Patel7, Philipp du Cros8, Lorenz von Seidlein9, Nick Wareham10, Nicola Low11

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
2: Joint Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
3: Neuropathologist and Director, Brain Tumour Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
4: Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
5: School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
6: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
7: The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
8: Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, United Kingdom.
9: Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
10: MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
11: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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