Let’s Make ‘Small, Crappy Trials’ Extinct, Former NIH Deputy Says

After seven years as part of the National Institutes of Health’s leadership team, Kathy L. Hudson tried her hand at consulting. But she didn’t like it.

“It’s a very solitary activity, and I really like working with a team,” she said.

She now works for an organization that has the word “people” in the title.

Hudson has been an influential figure in research policy, having a hand in everything from the 2008 law to protect employees from discrimination based on genetic information (Pub. L. 110-343) to the million-person, precision medicine initiative. A former associate director of the ...