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| Subject: Great: Young scientists use crowd sourcing to fund their research Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:56 pm | |
| In heart disease, the same stuff that makes snot green finds its way into the body’s arteries, making their walls sticky and prone to damage.
Sydney medical researcher Martin Rees and his team want to understand how these inflammatory proteins cause havoc so they can develop drugs that target them.
With heart disease one of the leading causes of death in Australia, its easy to imagine this project's potential.
But Dr Rees faces a problem many young researchers with brilliant ideas experience. After narrowly missing out on the latest round of highly competitive government grant funding, Dr Rees has run out of money to continue his research.
Rather than abandon their ideas and leave research for more lucrative corporate careers, a growing number of early-career scientists are appealing to the public to raise money through crowd funding websites.
Dr Rees' campaign is one of the first to launch on Thinkable, a website for researchers to explain their research to the public and seek sponsorship.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/young-scientists-use-crowd-sourcing-to-fund-their-research-20140804-zzs0y.html |
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