Many established researchers hiked the number of grants they receive and the number of
scientists working in their labs, but newer investigators saw virtually no rise in funding through the Research Project Grant Program (R01) grants considered crucial to establishing an independent scientific career, Stephan found.
What can
the scientists working in the lab teach us about love?
Not exact matches
On the other hand, Biogen has its roots
in a Cambridge start - up founded
in 1978 by MIT and Harvard
scientists working in small, separate
labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial success.
InVivo paid for a year of Pritchard's graduate fellowship and funds his research
in Langer's
lab;
in exchange, Pritchard brings to InVivo insights gleaned from some of the smartest
scientists working in biomaterials anywhere.
Nobel Prizewinning
scientist Tim Hunt joked that men and women
in the same
lab tend to fall
in love, and that tends to get
in the way of their
work.
Other than Post, only a handful of
scientists are
working on
lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies
in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.
You can
work in a
lab and still have Faith and many
scientist do.
When asked to describe their title, 59 % of respondents self - identified as
working in research & development (president / VP of R&D, food tech, chemist,
scientist, chef, project manager,
lab tech, etc.); or QA / QC (quality - assurance manager, quality - control manager, QA / QC personnel, etc.).
More recently, he obtained a TEAM grant from the Foundation for Polish Science consisting of fellowships for at least six young
scientists to
work in his
lab and research money.
Should the old bait - and - switch or any intrinsic allure that graduate and postdoc research may hold no longer
work, universities will still need to lure able young
scientists to labor
in their
labs.
Kita spends whole days
in the
lab, either
working on her own research or helping students, postdocs, and other
scientists develop their projects.
«I'm a plant
scientist in Dr. Patel's
lab at Big State University, with significant research experience
in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as
working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.
Following the MPH program I'll
work at NCI, where I will establish a research agenda that I hope will springboard me to a career as a different kind of translational
scientist than I was exposed to
in the
lab: Whereas physician -
scientists take discoveries from «the bench to the bedside,» I want to take my research from «the bench to society.»
Genes keep
working for a while after a person dies, and
scientists have used that activity
in the
lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine minutes.
Although undoubtedly «the U.S. and U.K. are more popular choices for Japanese
scientists» it is very possible to improve your English
in the southwest of Germany too, as Tanaka notes: «In Europe, Germany is the second choice after the U.K. [for Japanese researchers] as English is indeed the working language in all international German labs.&raqu
in the southwest of Germany too, as Tanaka notes: «
In Europe, Germany is the second choice after the U.K. [for Japanese researchers] as English is indeed the working language in all international German labs.&raqu
In Europe, Germany is the second choice after the U.K. [for Japanese researchers] as English is indeed the
working language
in all international German labs.&raqu
in all international German
labs.»
Working in these
labs helped her better understand the life of a
scientist.
The majority of
scientists hired by the bureau
work in «professional support» positions, usually
in FBI
labs.
It was also a pleasant surprise that all
scientists at Lilly spend time
working in the
lab regardless of seniority, and that the company allows their employees time for academic pursuits such as writing chapters of books.
It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies
in plant physiology at Queen's University,
in the
lab of a
scientist with whom I had
worked the previous summer.
Although there?s no denying that much of the excitement
in modern science is to be found
in the world?s molecular biology
labs, often the
scientists who
work there are?
So, I took a job as a research
scientist in the analytical
lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located
in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate
work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.
Many
working scientists have fond memories of undergraduate days spent
in the field or
in the
lab — including Wilson, who graduated from Wooster
in 1978 and came back because he liked the way the school blends undergraduate teaching and research.
«This
work was driven by talented
scientists in the
lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,» Zhou said, «who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to make this technique into reality.»
This
lab experience was vital, because I learned what the requirements of the system were from both my own
work and from other
scientists in the
lab.
The transition from the postdoc's current unclear status to being a regular employee of the institution
in which she or he
works could benefit postdoctoral
scientists, the
labs they
work in, and, I would argue, scientific research itself.
Working in the Ferguson
lab where Ribeiro was a postdoctoral trainee, the
scientists crossed two mouse models.
As
scientists, we tend to feel like we have a lot of freedom
in what we do, because that's how
lab work is.
Scientists with outside interests are often regarded with suspicion
in the
lab; we can be seen as undedicated, unfocused, easily distracted, and so divorced from the scientific frame of mind that we'll probably end up
working in — oh, the shame — industry.
That's great for those already - funded
scientists and not bad for the people who
work in their
labs.
The specific duties of staff
scientists — who can
work in core facilities as well as
in labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both doing independent research and helping others get
work done, though the specifics vary.
So, for example, a dull
scientist in a spectacular
lab probably would have a much higher index than a spectacular
scientist working on someone else's projects
in a dull
lab.
Working with
scientists in and out of your
lab is especially important, Frias says, which places great demands on communication skills.
For years,
scientists have been
working to develop «
labs on a chip,» portable devices that would perform complex analyses usually only possible
in a chemistry laboratory.
The opportunity to
work together with other
scientists is another consideration to factor
in when choosing a
lab, argues Nicolas Carayol, a professor of economics at the University of Bordeaux
in France, who was not involved with the study.
University and government
labs worldwide offer first - rate opportunities for a few gifted
scientists to
work to understand the basic phenomenon of superconductivity and develop it
in ways that will facilitate commercialization.
So early - career
scientists who aren't eager to head up their own research enterprise should consider opportunities to teach or to find
work outside academia — at government
labs or
in private industry — where they can do good
work without having to build and support a laboratory and a team.
In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdoc
In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff
scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdoc
in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific
work, providing higher pay and better
working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and
labs» graduate students and postdocs.
One «very famous» principal investigator, Watson says, called the university safety officer «just a facilities guy who
worked in a
lab for a summer and fancies himself a
scientist.»
These methods are highly sensitive, but require skilled
scientists working in sophisticated
labs that have high - level biocontainment measures.
«Many decades ago, when metal
works was a chemical art,
scientists realised that science could investigate the various phenomena which occur during metal production or transformation,... and now there are many metal science
labs in the world,» he writes
in an e-mail.
In the past year, the waits have become so long and so common that foreign scientists working in the United States fear leaving the country lest they find themselves stranded, unable to return to their labs and career
In the past year, the waits have become so long and so common that foreign
scientists working in the United States fear leaving the country lest they find themselves stranded, unable to return to their labs and career
in the United States fear leaving the country lest they find themselves stranded, unable to return to their
labs and careers.
In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continue
In reality, «substantially more
scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings
in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continue
in the U.S.
work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly
in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continue
in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research
lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.
In fact,
scientists have been
working to update
lab tests to look beyond sperm count, swimming ability and shape (also known as morphology, a subjective measure that is tough to replicate with an algorithm) to explore other possible causes of male infertility.
About half of Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica's R&D recruits are telecoms engineers, and the other half or so are computer
scientists; the company does not recruit much from other backgrounds to
work in its four R&D
labs in Spain and Brazil.
I will meet
scientists and learn about their fascinating experiments — without the frustration of
working in the
lab myself.
Just as he was becoming disillusioned with the prospect of
working in academia, Thomas O'Malia, a professor
in the USC Marshall School of Business, visited Gray's
lab and offered the
scientists there a chance to meet with him once a week to discuss entrepreneurship strategies.
But
scientists working on a way to repair the vital organ have now engineered tissue that closely mimics natural heart muscle that beats, not only
in a
lab dish but also when implanted into animals.
Chu saw the hubs as miniature Bell
Labs in which top
scientists from many different disciplines could
work together to overcome specific energy - related challenges.
Corporate partnerships aren't unusual
in built - environment research, but
scientists say that the
lab will have to select its members carefully, be transparent about funding sources and
work to ensure scientific independence.
Soon after the resilin gene was found within the fruit fly genome
in 2001,
scientists got to
work trying to produce this super-rubber
in the
lab.