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EDUCATION Soma Weiss Day Finds Drama in Science First-year student Alice Chen prepares her poster on developmental aspects of the P. falciparum malaria parasite. What do modern clinical research and Broadway musicals have in common? Those attending this year's Soma Weiss Day keynote address by Nobel Prize–winning researchers Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein can tell you. "They are both major productions, and they both tell a story full of suspense and drama." The researchers, both from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, gave an entertaining talk titled "The Clinical Investigator: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered—But Still Beloved," which followed an afternoon of posters and talks by HMS and HSDM students.    This year marks the 100th birthday of Soma Weiss, and to celebrate the occasion, his daughter, son, and daughter-in-law attended the April 8 event.    Immediately preceding the keynote, HMS student Eunice Tsai described her work with Cambodian TB patients. With Anne Goldfeld, associate professor of medicine, she studied why otherwise healthy people are unable to mount an immune response.They suspect there is an inherent genetic defect.    And what do Tsai and Goldfeld have in common with Goldstein and Brown? The same thing they share with great creative teams like Rodgers and Hammerstein: collaboration. "One way to reinvigorate patient-oriented research is to encourage partnership between researchers," said Goldstein. Back to Top