SEATTLE — When Clay Reid decided to leave his job as a professor
at Harvard Medical School to become a senior investigator at the
Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in 2012,
some of his colleagues congratulated him warmly and understood
right away why he was making the move.
at Harvard Medical School to become a senior investigator at the
Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in 2012,
some of his colleagues congratulated him warmly and understood
right away why he was making the move.
Others shook their heads. He was, after all, leaving one
of the world’s great universities to go to the academic equivalent
of an Internet start-up, albeit an extremely well- financed,
very ambitious one, created in 2003 by Paul Allen,
a founder of Microsoft.
of the world’s great universities to go to the academic equivalent
of an Internet start-up, albeit an extremely well- financed,
very ambitious one, created in 2003 by Paul Allen,
a founder of Microsoft.
Still, “it wasn’t a remotely hard decision,” Dr. Reid said.
He wanted to mount an all-out investigation of a part
of the mouse brain.
And although he was happy at Harvard, the Allen Institute
offered not only great colleagues and deep pockets,
but also an approach to science different from the
classic university environment.
The institute was already mapping the mouse brain
in fantastic detail, and specialized in the large-scale
accumulation of information in atlases and databases
available to all of science.....[...]nytimes.com
He wanted to mount an all-out investigation of a part
of the mouse brain.
And although he was happy at Harvard, the Allen Institute
offered not only great colleagues and deep pockets,
but also an approach to science different from the
classic university environment.
The institute was already mapping the mouse brain
in fantastic detail, and specialized in the large-scale
accumulation of information in atlases and databases
available to all of science.....[...]nytimes.com
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