Yale Builds a Bridge
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Yale is where chemotherapy was first used and where penicillin first saved a patient?s life. While medical advances like these may start with great ideas, they don?t get very far without an infrastructure to support them. This is Colleen Shaddox for the Yale Office of Public Affairs talking with Dr. Robert Sherwin about the ongoing construction of that infrastructure. He's director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation.
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