John Stanford
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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50 years later in 1893, it was Johns Hopkins University that opened its school of medicine on the German research model, which became the very template American universities would follow to turn laboratory science into medical discovery.
In 1955, at the University of Pittsburgh, Jonas Salk developed and tested the first effective polio vaccine, ending decades of a disease that had crippled and killed American children in the tens of thousands.
And in this century, as we'll talk about in the episode with Kate, the University of Pennsylvania and a team there were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work developing mRNA platforms that would go on to be the basis for both Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines.
The story of American universities and the story of American medicine are intertwined with incredible steps along the way that have shown how America makes medicine.
Kate, welcome to the show.
Well, you're here as part of our America 250 series where we're looking at all the elements of the ecosystem that have made American pharmaceutical innovation so dynamic.
Obviously, universities play a critical role, and we'll get into that.
But for those who don't know AAU, can you start by talking about both the organization and your work there?
No kidding.
I think that is a pretty broad spectrum.
And, you know, a little bit of these episodes are history themed.
And so you mentioned being a little over 120 years old.
Obviously, you and I weren't around then, but what do you think led to at that moment of time?
So clearly something's going on at the turn of the 20th century that says research universities need to get organized.
What do you think that moment was that catalyzed the launch of AAU?
And as it's grown, so too has universities, especially R1, their role in the research ecosystem.
So for the layman-
Paint a picture of why universities are so critical and also how it works.
We have NSF, NIH, other pots of money.
Why do they need to go to universities?
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