Solomon Center Hosts Leading Litigator Mark Barnes ’84 on Federal Research Funding Law
As universities and academic medical centers grapple with significant changes to federal grants, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School recently hosted a conversation with Visiting Lecturer in Law Mark Barnes ’84, one of the country’s foremost experts on the laws governing federal research funding.
Barnes, a partner at Ropes and Gray LLP who was previously executive vice president at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and associate provost for research at Harvard, drew from his wide-ranging career and recent experience litigating major cases concerning cuts to and restrictions on federal research funding to institutions of higher education. Solomon Center Faculty Director Abbe R. Gluck ’00 moderated the discussion.
The event concluded with questions from the standing-room only audience, which comprised students and faculty from across Yale’s schools of law, medicine, nursing, public health, management, divinity, and arts and sciences.
About the Solomon Center
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. The center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.
