While everyone else is resting up from Saturday afternoon and getting ready for the big Saturday night banquet, our doctors and researchers are meeting in a closed-door science meeting. It's the board's opportunity to ask for their wisdom about where the science is going and what our very limited funding should go to first. It's also a chance for the researchers to talk amongst themselves about what they're working on and what they might try next. It's an informal setting so often the free flow of ideas is very exciting. I often don't even understand what they were talking about until weeks later. We are careful not to interrupt the flow for fear of getting in their way.
This year during the science day on Sunday there were some exciting presentations. So exciting to the researchers, in fact, that they've asked for an entire day next year where they could meet amongst themselves. We are working to make that happen.
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