Francis Collins, MD on Staging Tomorrow's Moonshots | The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19

Vaccines weren’t developed in months; they were the product of decades-long investments in basic life sciences research. Yet, medicine today remains primed to reward translation and investment in proprietary R&D. In this fireside chat, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and Ruth O'Hara, PhD, Senior Associate Dean of Research at Stanford Medicine, discuss what lessons we can draw from the pandemic to guide its priorities and our nation’s overall investment in fundamental research.