Dr. Gary K. Michelson Proposes a National Institute of Cures

The deployment of new COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 and early 2021 put to rest the outdated belief that vaccine development is a 10-year endeavor. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and, as of early February 2021, a third from Johnson & Johnson, came about not because scientists are working harder (they always have worked hard) but the medical research ecosystem is more open, sharing information and developments as never before. 

Gary K. Michelson, MD, founder of the Michelson Medical Research Foundation, sees this as a positive disruption of the status-quo AND an important opportunity. In “America’s Needed Medical Revolution,” which appeared in U.S. News & World Report in July 2020, Dr. Michelson proposes that we seize this momentum and “set a new course for medical discovery and breakthrough treatments for people who need them now.”

Calling for a new National Institute of Cures that would operate in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, he proposed the new institute would better foster innovation and prepare for future emergencies.

“A National Institute of Cures could combine the current infrastructure with new architecture and put our nation on the path to unleashing a needed revolution in thinking, research, and methodology,” he writes.

Read the article on U.S. News & World Report’s website.