Bridging the Bed-Bench Gap

Committee on the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 History of the Markey Trust; 5 Grant Programs; 6 Assessing the Markey General Organizational Grants Program; 7 The Biomedical Research Environment in the 1980s; 8 Closing the Bed-Bench Gap; 9 The Current Biomedical Research Environment; 10 Conclusions and Observations for Philanthropic Funders; 11 References; 12 Appendix A: Bridge Building Between Medicine and Basic Science; 13 Appendix B: The Endangered Physician-Scientist: Opportunities for Revialization Emerge; 14 Appendix C: Workshop on Training Programs in Patient-Oriented Pathobiology for Basic Scientists: Agenda; 15 Appendix D: Workshop on Training Programs in Patient-Oriented Pathobiology for Basic Scientists: Participants; 16 Appendix E: Descriptions of Programs Participating in the Workshop on Training Programs in Patient-Oriented Pathobiology for Basic Scientists; 17 Appendix F: Summary of Site Visits to Markey-Funded Programs that Provided Training in Basic Research to Physicians; 18 Appendix G: Biographies of Members of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences Committee