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School of Medicine student Sydney Yearley is quoted about her new collaborative Friedman School research that identified critical nutrition gaps in childhood diets around the world.

School of Medicine’s Jamie Maguire discusses the potential for research to find ways to identify women who are more vulnerable to postpartum psychiatric illness.

CSDD’s Ken Getz is quoted about the center’s new analysis that found AI agents can accelerate clinical development of cancer drugs by approximately 10 weeks and reduce direct operating costs by as much as $5.6 million in late-stage trials.

School of Medicine’s Jamie Maguire co-authors this opinion piece examining the challenges of identifying and treating women experiencing postpartum mental illness.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted at length in this article about the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), saying, “No company has been so critical to AI as TSMC.” Miller is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.

Fletcher’s Ken Pucker comments on corporate sustainability efforts, saying, “Companies aren't going to save the planet. The quicker that people understand and integrate that, the better.”

Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian is quoted from remarks given at the Department of Health and Human Services announcement of a new effort to catalog the many additives in the U.S. food supply, saying that “defining ultra-processed food and closing the GRAS loophole” rank among the FDA’s most consequential nutrition actions in 50 years.

Distinguished Professor, Friedman School Dean Emeritus, and FIMI Director Dariush Mozaffarian comments on a loophole that has enabled food manufacturers to add substances categorized as “generally recognized as safe” to food without public disclosure or of the information safety.

School of Medicine’s Beth Rosenberg says that oversight agencies for worker health and safety “just don't have enough man power, the fines aren't high enough for deterrent and they don't have enough people to enforce existing regulations."