THE MAP MAN

摘要

Hurrying in to an interview on his second rnofficial day as the de facto road-map czar at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Alan Krensky is absently clutching a piece of paper; he's proud to hand it over for inspection. On it, the physician-scientist has charted a year's worth of trans-NIH 'rounds' — expert talks on cross-agency topics from network theory to pharma-cogenomics to health economics. He has scheduled 11 lectures. The first is in two days.