Controversial NIH genome researcher leaves for new $70-million institute
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Human genome researcher J. Craig Venter will leave the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Jul 10, 1992 to lead the new Institute for Genomic Research (IGR). Venter says that the new $70 million nonprofit research center will seek to further the genome project through complementary DNA sequencing and gene mapping, with a sequencing rate of 60 million bases a year as the production goal. The IGR's policy on intellectual property will draw considerable attention given Venter's many applications for patents on partial gene sequences while working for the NIH.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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UK centres target brain drain
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The University of London plans to establish two new interdisciplinary research centers, the Developmental Biology Research Centre and the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, to encourage molecular biologists to return to Britain after postdoctoral work in the US and Europe. The tendency of such researchers to remain abroad after receiving their doctorates has afflicted Britain with a brain drain of scientists. The UK's Science and Engineering Research Council, recognizing the need to remedy this situation, will finance the new centers.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Sweeter offer by Wellcome keeps genome scientist in Britain
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Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust and genetics researcher John Sulston are planning to found the world's largest genome research institute. Sulston, who is directing the attempt at mapping and sequencing the genome of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, will receive MRC and Welcome Trust funding to start the facility. The offer from Wellcome Trust, a large medical research charity, eliminated the possibility that Sulston's group would join the private sector.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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