Journey ahead ….

Maternal and child health: gains, but a long journey ahead.

Neuro-oncology: past milestones and the journey ahead.

Neuro-Oncology will soon reach a new milestone, as Dr. Patrick Wen, Director of the Center for NeuroOncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, assumes the role of editor-in-chief in January 2014. As the journal enters this new era, I find myself reflecting on the milestones it has already reached. The journal has experienced impressive growth and success during its relatively short history, much...

The AI Journey: The Road Traveled and the (Long) Road Ahead

In this talk I will first briefly summarize the many impressive results we have achieved along the road so far traveled in the field of AI including some concrete results obtained at the IIIA-CSIC. Next I will describe some of the future challenges to be faced along the (long) road we still have ahead of us with an emphasis on integrated systems, a necessary step towards human-level AI. Finally...

From Flexner to competencies: reflections on a decade and the journey ahead.

This article is a sequel to one published in 2002 only a few years after the initiation of the shift to competency-based medical education (CBME). The authors reflect on the major forces that have influenced the movement and tipped the balance toward widespread adoption of CBME in the United States, primarily in graduate medical education. These forces include regulatory bodies, international c...

A Long Journey Ahead: Long Non-coding RNAs in Bacterial Infections

Bacterial pathogens have coevolved with their hosts and acquired strategies to circumvent defense mechanisms of host cells. It was shown that bacteria interfere with the expression of mammalian microRNAs to modify immune signaling, autophagy, or the apoptotic machinery. Recently, a new class of regulatory RNAs, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), was reported to have a pivotal role in the regulatio...