Copyright

Robert Cook-Deegan

Published On

2020-01-09

Page Range

pp. 453-460

Language

  • English

Print Length

7 pages

15. Does NIH need a DARPA?

Chapter of: The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (pp. 453–460)

Chapter 15, by Robert Cook Deegan, explores the possible application of the DARPA model to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Contributors

Robert Cook-Deegan

(author)
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-4237

Robert Cook-Deegan, PhD, is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. He founded and directed Duke's Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy (2002-12), and Duke-in-Washington through June 2016. Prior to Duke, he was with the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (1991-2002); National Center for Human Genome Research (1989-90); and congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1982-88). His research interests include science policy, health policy, biomedical research, cancer, and intellectual property. He is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome (1994) and more than 250 other publications.