Correspondence

Federal Funding for Stem-Cell Research

N Engl J Med 2005; 352:307January 20, 2005

Article

To the Editor:

In your editorial (Oct. 21 issue),1 you correctly state that if U.S. biomedical researchers are sidelined in pursuing stem-cell research, “our children and grandchildren may need to leave the United States to benefit from treatments other nations are currently developing.” This result would be unfortunate but surmountable. Worse for the American scientific community would be the “brain drain” effect on U.S. scientists who would leave to pursue cutting-edge research elsewhere.

Robert Matz, M.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6574
robert.matz@msnyuhealth.org

1 References

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   Drazen JM. Embryonic stem-cell research -- the case for federal funding. N Engl J Med 2004;351:1789-1790
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