How basic science fuels economic gain - Sanford Burnham Prebys

How basic science fuels economic gain - Sanford Burnham Prebys

A recent story in The New York Times describes how new and changed federal policies pose long-term risk to science and the economic gains it creates. Highlighted in the article is the story of Hudson Freeze, PhD, director of the Sanford Children’s Health Research Center, who as an undergraduate student at Indiana University was involved in the discovery of heat-resistant microbes. Those microbes would prove critical to the development of polymer…