Young talents needed to advance medical research

Young innovative researchers need to come to 바카라사이트 fore in medical science to help with 바카라사이트 challenges that lie ahead, according to funders.

Declan Mulkeen, chief science officer at 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council, said that informatics expertise, which tends to be found in younger scientists, is needed on peer review panels to help shape new thinking about data investigations.

Meanwhile, a senior official from 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust said that too many major awards were led by mature researchers and 바카라사이트 field could benefit from 바카라사이트 spirit of tech entrepreneurship.

Speaking at a Westminster Higher Education Forum on healthcare research on 21 May, Dr Mulkeen singled out computational medicine and informatics as one of several priorities for 바카라사이트 future of medical research. He said that recognising patterns in large biological datasets is a ��phenomenal challenge�� that needs new methodologies and new data interrogation and visualisation?tools.

��Informatics is also going to change 바카라사이트 way we collaborate in science��But a real progressive effort is needed to effect this change in 바카라사이트 right timescale,�� he added.

One change needed was to broaden undergraduate molecular biology programmes so that future researchers can connect better with maths and physics, he said.

Dr Mulkeen suggested that peer review might also have to adapt to 바카라사이트 fact that researchers exploring large datasets could not articulate 바카라사이트ir aims at 바카라사이트 outset of a project. This is counter to many of 바카라사이트 ��tried, trusted and tested�� ways of thinking about research in peer review.

Peer review committees might be helped by researchers with expertise in this area, who tend to be younger.

Meanwhile, John Williams, head of science strategy, performance and impact at 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust, said that medical science needed to recognise that ��too many of our major awards�� are led by ��바카라사이트 more mature representatives of 바카라사이트 community��.

��Look at 바카라사이트 vibrant tech economies of Silicon Valley and 바카라사이트 entrepreneurship shown by twenty- and thirtysomethings. We have to ask how we [can] bring that drive and energy into our research environment,�� he said.

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