These funds aim to bridge the so - called valley of death
between basic research funded by NIH and evidence of commercial applicability strong enough to attract private capital.
Not exact matches
In the last 24 months, she has assisted in securing more than $ 35 million in
research funding for Moffitt scientists by helping forge
basic and translational
research collaborations
between clinicians, scientists, and industry.
The programs that are
funded are often divided into four
basic categories:
basic research, applied
research, development, and facilities and equipment.Translational
research is a newer concept that seeks to bridge the gap
between basic science and practical applications.
But the review panel says that scientists should be careful not to make exaggerated claims about the medical impact of such
research, and
funding organizations should encourage more cooperation
between basic and clinical researchers to make sure experimental results have maximum impact.
One of the challenges for policy - makers will be to strike the right balance
between funding for
basic research and for more output - oriented programs, he says.
Her team also analyzed the type of
research that NIH
funded, but found no substantial relationship
between whether the grant focused on
basic or applied science and its likelihood to be cited by a patent.
First, within Texas Children's Cancer Center, they represent
funded programs of significant
research strength, each with strong collaborative interactions
between basic and clinical scientists.
Before we
fund more
basic science we should be investing — in bold ways — in rebuilding the connections
between research and practice, then
fund the best
research projects to emerge from those interactions.