3566 The Role of Peer Review in the Governance of Science

Saturday, February 19, 2011: 3:00 PM
143AB (Washington Convention Center )
Linda Miller , New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Peer review is a keystone of quality control in science and can be a matter of life and death in medical research. How has the system adapted to the globalization of science? How does it ensure that excellent science is not excluded because of its place of origin?