Barbara Bierer, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and a hematologist/oncologist. She is the faculty co-chair of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard University (Harvard MRCT), a study center whose purpose is to improve the ethical, logistical and regulatory aspects of international clinical trials, with a special focus on the emerging economies, and the Director of the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics and the Law Program of the Harvard clinical and translational sciences center....