Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52 said in an interview earlier this week that such a program has been considered for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).
"The idea has been raised and not dismissed [among professors]," Martin said. "In principle, I think [the Med School program] has safeguards and might work here [at FAS]."
Martin said, however, that it would be harder to find investors for a similar FAS program because Med School research has more attractive commercial applications than the often theoretical scientific research done at the graduate and post-graduate level. "If people invest, you want to promise them a volume of discoveries per year."
Martin said that such a program would work better if done in colllaboration with other schools, since fewer demands could be made on a single institution.
"That arrangement, if it could work, is even less prone to problems than the Medical School project," Martin said.
Martin said he did not expect the matter to be discussed any time in the near future.