摘要：It is often said that every system is perfectly designed to get the results it achieves. This invocation challenges us to rethink the systems we have in order to produce the results that we want. Consider then our current biomedical research apparatus and how its training and funding processes foster the crisis of replication, the insular anti-collaborative nature of closed data, and a system that preserves existing power structures and rewards narcissism. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted many of the weaknesses of our current approach. A key feature of the current system is the structure of research groups which may be conceptualized as mentorship hierarchies led by principal investigators. While intergroup collaboration is common, the structure rewards competition between groups and incentivizes selfishness: trainees developing within this structure are compelled to become hyperspecialized in hopes of obtaining grant funding in a unique area and developing into principal investigators with groups of their own.
