About the Editor: Jonathan Shaw, MD, MRCP (U.K.), FRACP, FAAHMS—The Epidemiology of Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes

Jonathan Shaw sometimes tells his students about Isaac Newton—the apocryphal story of how the great scientist, struck by a falling apple, discovered gravity. For Shaw, however, Newton’s conclusion is never as valuable as the curiosity that led to it. “When he asked, ‘What made the apple drop on my head?’, that was the key,” Shaw says. “To ask a clear question about why and how something might be. With any research, the biggest challenge is asking a good question. That’s the hardest thing to do.”