Academic research practices have remained virtually identical in its conduct and organization over the last few decades. Disparate groups of researchers work on ideas, projects and inventions in isolated clusters, with little sharing of information and synergies from collaboration. However a new shift in paradigm is not only changing how researchers collaborate, but changing the [...]
Stimulus Funding Can Lead to Cyber Infrastructures
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D
The recent announcement by President Obama to dedicate U.S.$5 billion in federal stimulus funding for scientific and other research is a an enormous opportunity for our field. Funding will not only help scientists and researchers to work toward cures and other scientific and scholarly discoveries, but modernize [...]
According to a recent article published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, computational biologists from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer argue that “high-quality, open and accessible data are the foundation of pre-competitive research, and strong public-private partnerships have considerable potential to enhance public data resources, which would benefit everyone engaged in drug discovery.”
“Pharmaceutical companies need to explore [...]
A recent posting on DrugMonkey discussed the topic of relationships within research groups, particularly among researchers that are more senior, postdocs and other students. http://scienceblogs.com/drugmonkey/2009/02/repost_independence.php. The question revolved around the increase in the number of major grant proposals submitted by postdocs. Is this a positive or negative trend? The positive side is that more recently [...]
What impact will the stimulus bill have? While there are physical structures ready, many researchers must secure their own funding and funding has been very scarce. The North Carolina Research Campus, with its three mostly empty buildings outfitted with some of the world’s best scientific equipment, could launch projects that would put people to work [...]
