Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

John Wilbanks

Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation running the Consent to Research Project

"Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it."

"I hate [the] word ?patient.? I don't like being patient when ? health care is broken."

"If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier."

"I'm proposing ? that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together."

"No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals."