We have the scientific leaders to accomplish this. Over 50 percent of all Nobel prizewinners began their work under the guidance of other Nobel laureates, and UT Southwestern has the highest concentration of Nobel laureates of any medical school in the world. Scientists will be nominated for the program by UT Southwestern's department chairmen and research center directors, then selected by a committee chaired by Nobel laureate Dr. Alfred Gilman. We are looking for the best. We will give them the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of their most promising areas of research.
Nothing is more important than the replacement of our best young people.
This will never change. The fifth member of the committee is Dr. Steven McKnight, chairman of biochemistry. All five on the committee are members of the National Academy of Sciences. The first scholars will be nominated and selected in the near future to begin work at UT Southwestern in September 1998. I am optimistic that we will have the program for Scholars in Medical Research at UT Southwestern fully funded very soon.