Sentences with phrase «own academic lab»

«It's a challenge to get from the academic lab into a full - scale manufacturing process, so we'd like to be that facilitator of technology in the control - release space,» Flynn says.

«The joie de vivre, the sense of enthusiasm among founders and employees, is much higher than you often see in the halls of an academic lab,» he says.

Or to stay in academic labs long enough to get Ph.D. s, then opt for industry's much better financial rewards?

Companies and academic labs that offer genetic testing can now incorporate previously patented genes into their products.

«I was lucky coming from a lab [at Michigan] that didn't have financing issues,» Conley says, but she knows that securing adequate funding is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge in many academic labs.

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree.

So in 2001 he became CEO of Renovis and began the process of closing his academic lab.

She estimates that her project, a large - scale analysis of the gene profiles of individuals, will end up costing around a million dollars — research that «could have been done in an academic lab if the resources [were] available.»

Rima Janusziewicz and Ashley R. Johnson, graduate students in DeSimone's academic lab, are co-authors on the paper and are working on novel applications in drug delivery and other areas.

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.

Amaro's work illustrates how a handful of academic labs and small companies are making progress with a fresh approach to targeting p53: rescuing it when it's sick.

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.

The Burning Question of Laboratory Safety 1 May 2009 In the wake of a lab worker's death, experts warn that many academic labs are unsafe.

In government and academic labs, scientific jobs usually focus on that specialty for the duration of an individual?s career.

Progress on Academic Lab Safety 02 October 2013 The University of California system has taken a series of encouraging steps to make its labs safer.

07 October 2011 A former lab manager argues that modern information systems hold the key to safer academic labs.

Back in the academic lab, Winter's students are also benefiting from QCT.

A Blueprint for Safety Action Now 02 December 2011 The Chemical Safety Board's report on the Texas Tech explosion is a must - read for everyone in charge of an academic lab.

Identifying and Evaluating Hazards in Research Laboratories, the new ACS report issued in September at the organization's national meeting in Indianapolis, is the society's response to a request the U.S. Chemical Safety Board made in its landmark 2011 report on academic lab safety.

Study to Examine Academic Lab - Safety Culture 05 June 2013 The yearlong study aims to improve campus safety practices.

Using a federal stick to enforce lab safety 31 July 2014 Why don't federal funders demand safe academic labs?

NSF provides state - of - the - art imaging tools to academic labs; supports efforts to develop new microscopy techniques; and funds training for young scientists and engineers in the field.

«Whether you run your own academic lab or take a position at a company, learning how to manage people, projects, and budgets are necessary skills, but traditional graduate and postdoctoral training do not offer formalized courses in these topics,» says Garth Fowler, outreach program manager for ScienceCareers.org.

The new report also makes a fine addition to the already groaning shelf of excellent investigations into serious academic lab disasters.

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.

The time has come for it to wield its stick to enhance safety at the academic labs it supports.

Some scientists mistakenly believe that start - up biotechnology employers have fewer political players than academic labs or larger corporations; I can tell you this isn't true.

The Chemical Safety Board's report on the Texas Tech explosion is essential reading for anyone in charge of an academic lab

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.

And to ensure that his postdocs and staff don't feel they are doing work in the lab that can be funneled into one of his ventures, he encourages open discussion about patents and he generally doesn't transfer any IP discovered in his academic lab into an old company.

«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.

This striking increase does not appear to reflect a vast new influx of researchers into America's academic labs, however.

Applications for postdoc positions at high - powered academic labs go unanswered, maybe unread.

Ràfols's student experience wasn't limited to the academic lab.

In many cases, Müller says, postdocs split their time between a Roche campus and an academic lab.

The quality of science in biotech and pharma is world class and much is done in collaboration with academic labs.

No matter what environment you work in, company or academic lab, if you develop yourself as an effective person — if you become known as the «get it done» type — your stock will rise and stay high.

«There is a demarcated line between my academic labs and the companies that got started in part through my inventions,» says Farokhzad.

State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to make academic labs safer

Another factor, Fischer says, is academic entrepreneurship and increased cooperation between academic labs and private companies.

«One way to cope is not to merge, but to collaborate with academic labs and startups.»

Now I understand why Microsoft Office products have all those collaboration features that I never found useful in the academic lab.

It includes academic labs at Aarhus and Aalborg universities, and several companies, including Wyeth (now part of Pfizer).

He doesn't accept sponsored research from companies, either his own or others, and any work that is «earmarked for the companies doesn't connect with my academic lab.»

My general impression is that academic labs are into producing soloists.

The 2009 death of 23 - year - old lab assistant Sheri Sangji focused national attention on lax safety standards in America's academic labs.

They may have all come from the same academic lab where the technology originated.

Tilghman, however, thinks the changes proposed in the article — they also proposed utilizing more staff scientists in academic labs — might even have the opposite effect.

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.

The keys to integrating modern information systems and research - based best practices into the nation's academic labs are investment and leadership, Watson says.