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...
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