Lawrence Hsu is a champion of interdisciplinary research. That’s why the second year PhD student of economics chose to present his work at a biotechnology conference. It’s also how he won the best poster award while he was there. Across disciplines, research posters are important tools in the dissemination of study results at academic conferences. They provide a complete and accessible visual overview of the project to attract attention and inspire discussion among attendees. Hsu’s work in health economics focuses on the pharmaceutical industry, which was a good fit for the Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association’s (BTBA) annual symposium held at Harvard earlier this July.
“Fundamentally, I aim to observe industrial responses to achieve a more accurate structure that describes the correlation between revenue loss and R&D in drug development,” Hsu explained.