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 [...]
Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan, have announced the creation of the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology that will facilitate the collaboration of research across three continents and accelerate the development of novel bioengineering, diagnostic and [...]
Date: Friday 18 September 2009 09:00 – 17:30
Location: Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
With corporations, governments, newspapers and universities embracing blogs and Twitter feeds as key elements in their communication strategies, social media have finally come [...]
According to a national study to chart the unmet needs and untapped opportunities in the diagnosis, treatment and aftercare for women with ovarian cancer has found there is a significant scope to improve survival and length of life following an ovarian cancer diagnosis. However this can only be achieved if there is a better collaboration [...]
