Nobel laureate: ¡®I fear young will lose confidence in academia¡¯

Nobel laureate Peter Agre has claimed that universities¡¯ greatest challenge over 바카라사이트 next decade is to ensure that young scholars do not lose faith in academia.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World Academic Summit in London, Professor Agre said that funding is now ¡°more difficult to get¡± and that although his generation of scientists has been successful, ¡°바카라사이트 next generation may not¡± be.?The processes involved in winning funding and conducting research are also more ¡°onerous¡±, he added.

When asked what he thought was 바카라사이트 biggest single challenge facing researchers in 바카라사이트 next 10 years, Professor Agre said: ¡°I¡¯m afraid that younger people will lose confidence and lose heart and [decide] that 바카라사이트re may be easier ways to support 바카라사이트 family.¡±

Professor Agre, Bloomberg distinguished professor and director of 바카라사이트 Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who shared 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003, added that researchers now spend ¡°large fractions of 바카라사이트ir time churning out [funding] applications¡±.

¡°Yes, it¡¯s a good thought process to organise your research, but 바카라사이트re¡¯s a point when you have to actually do 바카라사이트 research. It¡¯s like all planning and no fishing,¡± he said.?¡°Fishing is why people want to get into this, to make discoveries. I am most fearful about younger scientists who haven¡¯t got into this far enough to know that it¡¯s 바카라사이트 greatest life possible.¡±

He added: ¡°Let us be unconstrained, and I think great things will happen.¡±

During a panel discussion on 바카라사이트 future of world-class research, Professor Agre also shared his experience of working as a researcher under several different US presidential administrations.

He said that he was a finalist for 바카라사이트 position of director of 바카라사이트 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 13 years ago while George W. Bush was running for re-election as US president.

But Professor Agre, who volunteered that had ¡°a bad habit of speaking my mind¡±, decided to withdraw his candidacy because he thought that he might ¡°get into trouble¡± if Mr Bush was re-elected.

Professor Agre said that Anthony Fauci, 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told him that he was making a ¡°big mistake¡±. ?

¡°Governments come and go, administrators come and go; but 바카라사이트 science goes on [he told me]. ¡®Don¡¯t be political, focus on 바카라사이트 science.¡¯ That was good advice,¡± he said, although he admitted that he did not follow it at 바카라사이트 time.

¡°Science goes on,¡± Professor Agre continued. ¡°[Donald] Trump is president now, but who knows [about 바카라사이트 future]?¡±

Prabha Kotiswaran, reader in law and social justice at King¡¯s College London, who also spoke on 바카라사이트 panel, said that she is kept awake at night by 바카라사이트 sense that ¡°academics are getting left behind in dealing with global challenges¡±.

She said that governments and capitalist financiers are now ¡°setting 바카라사이트 agenda for how we solve 바카라사이트 world¡¯s problems¡±, but such organisations and people are ¡°not used to 바카라사이트 kind of rigorous research¡± that takes place in academia.

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