Dying for Science?
M. R. C. Greenwood, Gordon Ringold, Doug Kellogg
Most scientists are devoted to their work and are passionate about the potential benefits their research brings to society. But are they and their families prepared to die for their work? Should this even be a consideration when these individuals are working under carefully legislated and legal research conditions? For 13 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), researchers, some of whom work with mice and others with fruit flies, this became a sudden reality.
M. R. C. Greenwood is chancellor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz; a professor of nutrition at the University of California, Davis; and past-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Gordon Ringold is the president of the University of California, Santa Cruz Foundation
Doug Kellogg is chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz
