Andy Grove and Parkinson's Research
A profile of Andy Grove and his initiatives and views can be found at Forbes: "before [Parkinson's disease] debilitates him, Grove is going to fight. Over the past eight years Grove has immersed himself in the minutiae of the disease and has used his money and his stature to agitate for more and faster research on the neurology of Parkinson's. ... You can't go close to this and not get angry. There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. ... Grove criticized research funding at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the unwillingness of researchers to share data and the lack of urgency in translating basic science into treatments that can help people. ... What is needed is a cultural revolution that values curiosity, follow-through and a problem-solving orientation and also puts the data being generated in full view, scrutinizable by all." This is the same story for all us - just change Parkinson's to aging and add a couple more decades before the clock ticks down. We're in exactly the same position otherwise, and the mainstream research community is just as disinterested in progress and goal-setting.