The phrase
"academic labs" refers to laboratories or research facilities that are located within educational institutions, such as universities or colleges. These labs are used by students and professors to conduct experiments and research in various fields of study.
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The intervening months have brought some progress — but not nearly enough — on the issue of safety
in academic labs.
This article is the first in a series that will investigate career outcomes of alumni from a range
of academic labs of various sizes and disciplines from different types of institutions across the country.
My long - term career goal is to lead a successful independent
academic lab studying how epigenetic regulation contributes to normal biology and disease pathology, particularly in repeat diseases.
Researchers in academia, he notes, must depend more on one another, because
few academic labs are fully equipped.
It's clear that the federal government can act strongly when it chooses to take action, to ensure safety in government labs or to
combat academic lab fraud.
I think part of the reason is that discoveries found in
academic labs often have industrial applications.
Ph.D. students may be of any nationality, and the
partner academic lab may be based abroad, but the company must be a French legal entity.
It raises questions — but provides no answers — about issues of potentially great importance to scientists who work as at - will employees
in academic labs.
Our 10 - week program facilitates the acceleration of healthcare innovations emerging
from academic labs into commercialization and clinical practice.
Currently, the majority of biomaterials jobs are in academia, but the private sector is showing signs of activity,
with academic labs spinning out companies, pharmaceutical companies allying themselves to biomaterials companies, and traditional medical implant companies looking to replace their 50 - year - old technology, Müller adds.
CRAASH is a 10 - week program that facilitates the acceleration of healthcare innovations emerging from
academic labs into commercialization and clinical practice.
On 27 July, the regents of the University of California (UC) took a step unprecedented in U.S. history, one that laboratory safety experts believe is likely to help raise the customarily lax safety standards that have prevailed until now in
many academic labs across the country.
Building a Culture of Safety 5 June 2009 State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to make
academic labs safer.
State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to
make academic labs safer
The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports early - career life scientists in
academic labs across the U.S.
This synergistic model allows for a higher level of creativity and achievement that may soon be necessary for even
traditional academic labs to run efficiently and successfully.
After getting her undergraduate degree in biology at Olivet Nazarene University in Kankakee, Illinois, she worked in
academic labs for about 4 years before returning to the bioanalytical chemistry department of Aventis Behring Pharmaceuticals, where she had worked while in school.
«I think my mentality [at Inimex] is a little different from running my
own academic lab, in that no one cares about senior authorship on a paper, its just getting things done and working properly.
Citing examples of data - hoarding by colleagues, some scientists have griped that commercialism and competition are destroying the once - congenial atmosphere of
U.S. academic labs.
Study to
Examine Academic Lab - Safety Culture 05 June 2013 The yearlong study aims to improve campus safety practices.
The new report also makes a fine addition to the already groaning shelf of excellent investigations into
serious academic lab disasters.
Surely academic lab workers, at risk from slovenly safety standards, deserve as much protection as the integrity of Han's data or the workers at CDC.
By the summer of 2013, word of the company's ambitions was wafting
through academic labs, including Melissa Moore's at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
«We know that postdocs and graduate students see the insecurity experienced in
academic labs related to grants, and that they need to decide earlier on if an academic career is for them,» says ASCB Executive Director Joan Goldberg.
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includes academic labs at Aarhus and Aalborg universities, and several companies, including Wyeth (now part of Pfizer).
As federal sequestration and other disruptions of government funding have
forced academic labs to cut their staffs, some junior scientists are reportedly turning to adjunct teaching to pay their bills.
On the national scene, meanwhile, despite remedial steps at UCLA and some other universities and attention to the issue in scientific meetings and publications, the toll of
academic lab accidents mounts.
Austin says that postdocs in
academic labs rarely learn what's involved in turning a technology into a sellable product.
«I think Regeneron's founders sought to create something that was the best of both worlds, where you have the scientific freedom of academia but in a much more collaborative environment, where you wouldn't have the isolation of
individual academic labs,» Morton says.
«And the demands of a good industrial lab are very similar to those of a
good academic lab.»
First, many
academic labs sorely need «recommendations and guidance» — and more — in order to work safely, as shown by this horrifying litany of disasters and near - disasters recounted on Reddit by scientists and students.
U.S. laws that foster the commercialization of federally funded research have
prompted academic labs to become increasingly concerned about protecting intellectual property rights, says Fujita - Yamaguchi, who returned to Japan 2 years ago after more than 20 years in the United States, primarily as a principal investigator at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in Duarte, California.
This month, Next Wave provides a comprehensive picture of the current state of bioinformatics, from the funding situation in Europe and the U.S. to the new bioinformatics degree programs and the immediate hiring needs of industrial and
academic labs around the world.
Meanwhile,
academic labs waste money, mice, and other resources on experiments that, unbeknownst to them, have already been done but were never reported.
The effect of gene therapy equaled that of a drug called VTS - 270, which has been evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies at
numerous academic labs.
He also points out that the water samples were collected using the «inverted bottle» technique, a method avoided by many
academic labs because it can lead to lower measured values of methane in samples with the highest levels of the gas, because it allows the methane to percolate out of solution.
The quality of science in biotech and pharma is world class and much is done in collaboration
with academic labs.
Venturfest's core goal is to give scientific inventors — typically group leaders or postdocs
from academic labs and early stage start - up companies — an opportunity to pitch science - enterprise ideas to an audience including investors and other professionals of the business world.