Jonathan Engel, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management
Columbia University

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD
Division of Ethics Chief and Professor of Medical Humanities & Ethics
Columbia University

Abstract: The United States developed relationships with its research universities during World War II which produced the Manhattan Project (University of California) and the Rad Lab (MIT), among others. In the years after the war, these relationships were enhanced and enlarged through the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. These government-university relationships have been enormously fruitful for a variety of reasons. This session will explore the unusual nature of these relationships and discuss the future of science funding in the United States.

Sponsored by Columbia University