regulation — Volume 21, Issue 1 & 2

Decoupling From Animal Testing and Making Medical Research Human-Specific: A Conversation With Aysha Akhtar

We need to get back to studying human biology, not the biology of a mouse, cat, dog, or monkey. Replacing animal experimentation is a win-win for humans and animals. We need to stop trying to artificially create animal “models” of human diseases that are never the same diseases as what occurs naturally in humans. We need to embrace newer technologies that allow us to study human biology and human diseases. Think how much further ahead we would be if instead, we used those billions and the bright scientific minds to focus on human biology?

Public HealthHHPRJanuary 13, 2022regulation, technology, testing, biomedical research, ethicsComment

Vaccines, Regulation, and Patents: A Conversation with Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Jonathan J. Darrow

HHPR Senior Editor James Jolin interviewed Jonathan Darrow, S.J.D., LL.M., J.D., M.B.A, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Member of the Center for Bioethics. They discussed vaccine development, pharmaceutical regulation and patents.

Public HealthHHPRDecember 2, 2021interview, vaccine, regulation, patents, PharmaceuticalsComment