Science by a power of two
September 22, 2015 — When Robert Farese and Tobias Walther were negotiating to join Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health last year as professors of genetics and complex diseases, they proposed a twist to their appointments—a joint laboratory run as an equal partnership. Although they were working in different institutions and came from different disciplines—Farese from physiology and biomedicine, Walther from cell biology and biochemistry —they had been collaborating remotely for a decade, finding fertile ground in their shared research interests, scientific values, and wide-ranging curiosity. Read more…