ScienceDaily (Aug. 11, 2008) — The road from disease research to disease cure isn’t usually a smooth one. One role which bridges the laboratory and the clinic is that of the “clinician-scientist” – a doctor who understands disease both in the patient and in the Petri dish. Yet an editorial published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), contends that clinician-scientists in the UK and elsewhere are not prospering, but rather are “under threat in a hostile environment.”
