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unusual facts about basic research



Antibe Therapeutics

Antibe's science advisory board includes Louis Ignarro, awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for the basic research that underpins Antibe's technology platform, and Daniel K. Podolsky, president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

Grants were made to scientists at both public and private laboratories for basic and applied agricultural research in priority areas as designated in the research title of the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Title XVI), as amended.

Research program

A research program (UK: research programme) is a professional network of scientists conducting basic research.


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Advanced Technology Development Facility

ATDF is currently a subsidiary of SEMATECH, a non-profit consortium that performs basic research into semiconductor manufacturing.

Basel Institute for Immunology

The Basel Institute for Immunology (BII) was founded in 1969 as a basic research institute in immunology located at 487 Grenzacherstrasse, Basel, Switzerland on the Rhine River down the street from the main Hoffmann-La Roche campus near the Swiss-German border.

Brandywine Asset Management

The basic research and portfolio modeling concepts Brandywine uses today were developed through a major research project conducted from 1987 to 1991 using staff researchers and students and faculty from several universities, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, and West Chester University.

European Society for Medical Oncology

Founded in 1990, ESMO’s flagship scientific journal, Annals of Oncology, publishes articles addressing medical oncology, surgery, radiotherapy, pediatric oncology, basic research and the comprehensive management of patients with malignant diseases.

Malcolm A. S. Moore

2008: Hope Funds Award of Excellence in Basic Research.

Research Institute for Advanced Studies

The RIAS changed its name and turned its mission away from basic research in 1973, after the merger that produced the Martin Marietta Corporation.

Rüdiger Döhler

In March 1984, he went to Edinburgh and did clinical work at the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital and, with a grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), performed basic research at the University of Edinburgh (Sean P. F. Hughes).