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Commentary calls for coordinated leadership at the highest levels to ensure America's position as a world leader in biomedical researchBold and coordinated leadership at the federal level is essential to create secure, long-term, sustainable biomedical research funding policies based on strategic priorities, say the authors of a commentary about America's fledgling biomedical research framework published in this week's The Journal of the American Medical Association.In "A New Research and Development Policy Framework for the Biomedical Research Enterprise," by Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center and Elaine R. Rubin, PhD, of Association of Academic Health Centers, the authors lament the erosion of biomedical research funding and call for a strong focused direction moving forward, as presidential leadership has "waxed and waned" in past years."Biomedical research is integral to almost every realm of government responsibility?from protecting health and se