Science used to reward the lone genius—the first author who “drove the project,” the PI whose name defined a field. But the problems we face today—metabolic disease, obesity, GPCR signaling complexity—are too layered, too multidimensional, too systemic for single-discipline solutions.
As Hodson put it, the work he leads now would be impossible without partnerships. Whether it's human genetics, imaging platforms, peptide chemistry, or neural metabolic mapping—every piece re