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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thefp.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thefp.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
The Secretary of Health and Human Services oversees an enormous federal agency in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, federally funded biomedical research, public health, and drug approval. In other words, it’s a very important job—and the health of the American people is in that person’s hands. In choosing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the role, president-elect Donald Trump has made a profound mistake. That is not because I believe the status quo must be defended.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
urldefense.proofpoint.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
The Secretary of Health and Human Services oversees an enormous federal agency in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, federally funded biomedical research, public health, and drug approval. In other words, it’s a very important job—and the health of the American people is in that person’s hands. In choosing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the role, president-elect Donald Trump has made a profound mistake. That is not because I believe the status quo must be defended.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
One of the biopharma industry’s marvels of the 2020s has been the enormous medical and financial success of the GLP-1 class of drugs. But the path to commercialization of these therapies was far more complex than most understand, and some of the earliest history has never been presented. Beginning in 1988, I was part of what I believe was the earliest commercial effort to develop GLP-1 as a metabolic therapy.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
A recent policy decision by the American Association of University Professors to drop its categorical opposition to academic boycotts has raised new challenges to academic freedom on campuses worldwide.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
When I received the email from Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81 announcing Alan M. Garber ’76 will drop his interim title and serve as Harvard’s 31st president, I was, ironically, finishing up a letter of my own to the Harvard Corporation with my thoughts on the presidential search. While the letter will forever remain unsent, I can’t help but notice several ways in which the outcome aligns with my own recommendations.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
Federally funded research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) is a crown jewel of American higher education that confers enormous benefits upon the U.S. and the world. The integrity of the processes by which funding decisions are made is critically important to the success of the enterprise and its support by the public who pay for this research.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
In a recent op-ed in The Harvard Crimson—“Faculty Speech Must Have Limits”—the university’s dean of social science, Lawrence Bobo, made an extraordinary set of claims that seriously threaten academic freedom, including the chilling idea that faculty members who dare to criticize the university should be punished. Bobo is a senior administrator at Harvard, overseeing centers and departments including history, economics, sociology, and African and African American studies.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Jeffrey S. Flier |Eric Maskin |Steven Pinker
In an unprecedented repudiation of the principle of academic freedom, Dean of Social Science Lawrence D.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jeffrey S. Flier
This spring’s pro-Palestinian encampments over the Israel-Hamas war and the varied university responses have evoked comparisons to the protests of the Vietnam War era that helped end that conflict. In that light, current protests, even those violating campus rules, may be seen as necessary to achieving a higher goal. At first glance, this comparison may seem apt.
