AUSTRALIAN scientific research is being hamstrung by a systemic failure to support high-risk projects and ideas, Nobel prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall has warned. In the countdown to the federal Government's response to the Cutler review on research funding, Professor Marshall has called for a general funding boost and a simplified peer review selection process that can direct more money into curiosity-driven research. His concerns have been backed by the Academy of Science amid calls for some research dollars to be earmarked for high-risk projects. "We have to fund enough so that...
West Michigan Launches $10 Million Early Stage Venture Fund to Support Life Science & Technology
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American Chemical Society National Meeting Hosts Special Event On Science Policy
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With laws, government regulations, and funding priorities continuing to exert a broad impact on science, a group of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is holding a special symposium Aug....
Life sciences, alternative energy leaders discuss Bay area
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Danish life sciences co. expands here
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Oswego State receives grant to help more women become science, technology, engineering and math teachers
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Oswego, NY -- The State University College at Oswego is receiving a $200,000 grant provided by the National Science Foundation which will allow the school to begin a series of activities to further the hiring, retention...
Health Science Center doctor earns grant
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Environmental Science Associates acquires S.F. firm
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News: New NSF Social Science Agenda - Inside Higher Ed
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Seeking to move "beyond near-term...
Marine park boost to science jobs
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A European marine science park is to be created in Argyll in a bid to encourage new businesses in Scotland's growing life sciences sector. Highlands and Islands Enterprise is backing phase one of the development, near...
Health Science Center wins major research grant to study heart failure
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Canadian Fertilizer Institute announces Science Cluster to fund research into reducing greenhouse gas emissions by ...
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Wake Forest Health Sciences president to retire
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