Tag: Funding
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Scientific culture – do we need to slow down?
Seán Dunphy explores how the structures of academic funding and publishing have shaped modern scientific culture. Scotsman Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin is one of the most impactful in science, but Fleming’s intention was never to study antibiotics; rather, it came as an accident while studying Influenza. Like Fleming, neither Jared Leadbetter nor Joseph Mougous…
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J.K. Rowling Donates £15.3 Million to Multiple Sclerosis Research
Author J.K. Rowling has recently donated £15.3 million to research at the University of Edinburgh’s Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic. The Clinic was opened in 2010 in the name of J.K. Rowling’s mother, who had died of complications relating to multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1990. When Rowling turned 45, the age at which her mother…
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New funding to fight antibiotic resistance
Since the 1940s, we have been abusing antibiotics, using them to treat any infection under the sun. In the short term, this worked. Our sore throats went away, our infections subsided, and we went on with our daily lives. The rash use of antibiotics to treat everything, however, has a long-term effect, one that is…