Keynote Address

Abstract

First, I want to thank Dean Jacobson for his kind hospitality and for the invitation of the Program Committee to participate in this symposium. I anticipate learning new things along with those of you in the audience. I thought perhaps you might be interested in some comments regarding the fiscal stresses we face these days, about problems of priorities, and how these priorities look from the point of view of scientists and of laymen, including members of Congress. Perhaps we can gain a little insight on how the Congress and the public may now be looking at these priorities, which seems to me to be very germane to the present situation on funding. I will try to use examples from the lymphoma and leukemia areas to illustrate some of the aspects of priority decision making.