PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to
greatly expand and, more important, to
accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments
work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.
But selling ownership of the legal profession to nonlawyers who want hefty returns on their investments is most certainly not the answer considering that it will worsen, not improve, worsen the profit motivations / greed in the process (more layers of entities to pay), and considering that it will most certainly weaken the independence of the legal profession to the profound detriment of society, and considering that the access to outside capital will serve only to
greatly accelerate anti-competitive concentrations (a trend various ABS insiders and observers in the UK candidly admit is happening and one they candidly admit that they are
working hard to
accelerate).