So why not just earn the Ph.D. and
do biomedical research without going to medical school?
I work as a scientific editor in a large university medical center, where I also teach scientific writing to postdocs, junior faculty, and medical residents who are
doing biomedical research.
«I recommend institutions
doing biomedical research educate their in - house counsels about these animal rights strategies and be prepared.»
That 3 % - plus boost is aimed at keeping NIH on pace with inflationary costs for
doing biomedical research.
Not exact matches
We now have more PIs age 66 and older than we
do 36 and younger — and with this aging of America's
biomedical research force, we have put «a generation of science at risk.»
You don't need to be educated or care to enjoy the fruits of others labor, however if you are educating your children to be creationist, that's one less American scientist, which has been impacting the role of this country in
biomedical research.
On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it
does not endorse the
Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's W
Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make
biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's W
research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.
Jim Woodgett of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum
Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change how Canada's leading biomedical research funder does b
Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change how Canada's leading
biomedical research funder does b
research funder
does business.
If a manager (say, the PI of an academic
biomedical research lab) assumes that they're more qualified to judge their employees» performance than they really are, what management errors
do they typically make?
HHMI
does provide grants and fellowships, but it prefers to think of itself not as a foundation, but as an active
biomedical research organization.
«The public wants more
biomedical research done at universities than is consistent with the functions of those universities and academic medical centers,» Bienenstock told the panel.
«There is no compelling evidence that we don't have enough people who want to go into
biomedical research,» asserted Alan Guttmacher, head of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Ben Barres, a neuroscientist and the director of Stanford's program, says, «My hope is that they become better scientists, better
biomedical researchers, and that they
do way more disease - oriented
research» than they otherwise would.
What federal oversight should embryonic stem cell
research have that other forms of
biomedical research, including those involving human subjects,
do not already have?
«Our
research shows that targeting cannabinoid receptors in the periphery with pharmacological inhibitors that
do not reach the brain holds promise as a safe therapeutic approach for the treatment of overeating and diet - induced obesity,» said Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, an assistant professor of
biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine, who led the
research project.
Yet, according to a series published earlier this year in The Lancet,
biomedical research is
doing a poor job of helping patients.
«I don't think they have the laser - like focus that Specter has had» on supporting
biomedical research even in difficult budget times, Moore says.
The cultural chasm between science and clinical practice involves the very distinct mentalities required to practice clinical medicine and to
do basic
biomedical research.
People have trouble sometimes articulating the question of what we should
do in
biomedical research by saying, I want the disease, I am interested to be [in the disease being] studied more carefully.
The goal of all these proposals is to get the best young
biomedical scientists into their own independent, well - funded laboratories earlier in their careers, so that they don't waste their most productive and creative years in a supporting role, pursuing other people's
research ideas.
However, the bill
does not carry out a major reorganization proposed by NIH leaders, and it is more prescriptive about other management issues than
biomedical lobbyists feel is appropriate for a
research agency.
Specifically, the IOM committee says NIH should support only
biomedical research with chimpanzees if it promises to advance public health, can not be
done with another
research model or ethically performed with humans, and the animals are kept in ecologically appropriate housing or habitats.
«As a department chair, I have several recently promoted associate professors who were well funded as assistant professors, have excellent publication records and are
doing exciting, groundbreaking
biomedical research.
The European Commission has rejected a plea to abolish animal
research across the European Union, saying that
doing so would harm
biomedical research.
NIH is the most important source of
research funds for
biomedical research, but don't forget that there are many other sources.
Finally, the report noted that most
biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States
do little to prepare
biomedical scientists for careers outside of academia even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in academic
research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.
As
biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers
did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.
«All the NIH can
do is call attention to these problems and how important this group of individuals is to the future of
biomedical research,» Ginsburg said.
Because p - values are so often misapplied, their increased use probably doesn't indicate an improvement in the way
biomedical research is conducted or the way data are analyzed, the researchers found.
In
doing so, they may have left our brains prone to occasional complex dysfunction — but also capable of
biomedical research aimed at one day curing the ailing brain.
She plans to
do theoretical as well as applied
research and steer her
research toward energy, electronic, and
biomedical applications, combining materials science, applied physics, and engineering with biomedicine.
«If we wish to bring American
biomedical research to its knees, the way we can
do it is by focusing more and more money in very targeted and specific areas,» Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told a group of Congressmen and their aides last week.
«We have a system that has worked well in the past, that has made the U.S. the leader in
biomedical research worldwide,» he says, «and while I don't think we've lost that [edge] yet, we
do see a rising tide in lots of places.»
We
do both dry - lab (bioinformatics lab) and wet - lab (microbiology and immunology lab)
biomedical research.
Of course, those things
do happen in
biomedical research.
Until now scientists conducted most
biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»
Now a student at UC Davis, he is majoring in environmental toxicology with an emphasis in molecular and
biomedical toxicology and a minor in education, and he continues to
do research in a neurogenomics lab at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience.
He is enthusiastic about contributing to patient education and knowledge translation, which are essential for the dissemination of
biomedical research, and
does so by writing for the Medical News Bulletin.
Through basic and clinical
biomedical research and training, NCI conducts and supports
research that will lead to a future in which we can prevent cancer before it starts, identify cancers that
do develop at the earliest stage, eliminate cancers through innovative treatment interventions, and biologically control those cancers that we can not eliminate so they become manageable, chronic diseases.
This kind of
biomedical research is really expensive and there is just no other way to
do it, so we need the support of government funding and also foundations like BrightFocus that enable the kinds of discoveries that we are working on to happen in the first place and then get moved forward toward clinical deployment.
Once it
did, the United States, with its
biomedical research enterprise, beckoned.
«The folks here at the center
do outstanding work and these federal funds will help them upgrade their
biomedical infrastructure and continue cutting - edge
research that is unlocking cures and improving treatment options,» said Reed, who as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has helped direct more than $ 47 million in fiscal year 2015 NIH funding to Rhode Island.
I can appreciate, that with the 10s of thousands of hours I have spent deep in the realm of
biomedical research and primary source literature, that we just don't know most of what we think we know.
This is the most brilliant paragraph I've read in a while, «I can appreciate, that with the 10s of thousands of hours I have spent deep in the realm of
biomedical research and primary source literature, that we just don't know most of what we think we know.
I have been a university grounds topper in
biomedical do research and now working as a junior scientist in a leading genome project.
A New York court extends legal rights reserved for humans to two chimpanzees; what
does this mean for
biomedical research?
[Response: I certainly wouldn't argue that the distribution of funding for
biomedical research in the US is optimal, but what are your ideas for
doing it better?
I'm guessing the methodological requirements of subjective rating studies might not have been obvious or intuitive to people who don't design, perform, or review such studies (although similar requirements in
biomedical research seem to be widely understood.)
3 The fact is that in many countries (such as Canada, Japan, and many European nations) with equitable, population - wide access to medical care, not only
do people live longer, healthier lives than in the U.S., but less money (per capita) is spent on both health care and
biomedical research.
Last but not least,
do some more
research into the use of primates in
biomedical tests and ask yourself if it is not a matter of whether they are conveniently labelled «non-human» or not, but more of whether the tests themselves are «non-humane» or not, and go from there.