Not exact matches
PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member
scientists, is doing something unprecedented
in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers
in the
country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF —
in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments
work miraculously
in some patients and not at all
in others.
He also sees an attitude change among the
scientists at his institution: Many of them have benefited from studying or
working in other countries, «so their modus operandi is different from [what] we had here 20 years ago,» Paruch says.
Whether it is
working with a
scientist from across the hall, reaching out to researchers
in other disciplines or
countries, or striking up a collaboration between academia and industry, the benefits can be great.
This took roughly 6 months, and a lot of my
work seemed to consist of calling
other people's bluff — not the participating
scientists», but the administrators» and legal departments» of universities
in 14 European
countries.
Scientists in other countries are more likely to
work with fetal cells
in efforts to modify an animal's genetic makeup so that its milk contains drugs for human use.
Indeed, the Nobel Prize announcement last month generated much debate
in Russia about why many of the
country's best and brightest
scientists — tens of thousands of whom fled abroad during the economic crises of the 1990s — are still now gracing foreign universities and their
work benefiting
other economies.
China is currently
working hard — with considerable success — to lure home high - quality
scientists trained and
working in other countries.
Young
scientists who currently are
working in one of these
countries may also benefit from the Twinning program,
in which underperforming institutions can partner with leading institutions
in other E.U.
countries to beef up a particular field of research through knowledge and staff exchange, and the provision of training and workshops.
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), which carries out this
work, is a group of some 950
scientists at universities around the United States and
in 15
other countries.