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Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Chair Andrew P. McMahon said that while Harvard remains “exceptionally strong” in life sciences, the field is growing increasingly competitive. “In the life sciences particularly, there’s been one enormous change over the last 20 years, and that’s the growth of top-rate research in medical schools,” McMahon said. “20 years ago, all the top-rate research happened within a regular undergraduate university campus or within specialized research institutes...
...Today it’s a much more competitive world in recruiting anyone, because one’s competing not only with the best universities but also with a plethora of medical schools,” McMahon said...
Moreover, according to Chair of MCB Andrew P. McMahon, both he and Stuart L. Schreiber, chair of chemistry and chemical biology, are turning over their titles, which would further alter the composition of the committee...
...year progressed, more and more professors began to address the issue of interdisciplinary hires, a natural result, according to McMahon, of an integrated committee...
...McMahon said the committee is even working now with Dean of the Physical Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti to hire a professors in the area of computational biology...