With the dust settling after the US elections, chemists are trying to work out how a second Donald J. Trump presidency will affect their work and lives.
In an interview with Chemical & Engineering News, Foley Hoag partner and Life Sciences industry group co-chair Jeffrey Quillen discussed how many parties were hoping for a divided government, if only to stop a single party from enacting sweeping changes too suddenly. "Either party that gets a clean sweep could actually do a lot of harm to the industry and the economy," he said.