Chapter 181 Research Funding
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"Scripps Research Institute joins!"
"We, the Department of Neurobiology at Nagoya University, have also joined!"
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Five scholars, five institutions, all of them went well, and it can even be said that they eagerly joined Tian Lu's research plan. If we add Tian Lu's side and the two planned Huaguo medical schools, and the eight institutions to share the specific research projects, according to Tian Lu's estimate, it will only take two years at most, which is enough to accumulate enough data support for him to achieve a relative improvement in the basic research of epilepsy.
Of course, it is precisely because of this that other people will join in so happily.
Merely......
"How to solve the problem of research funding?"
After a few moments, Professor Tanaka suddenly asked a question.
As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room suddenly fell silent again. It's disappointing to ask this question now, but it's a very real question that no one can avoid.
Generally speaking, everyone's funding comes from the state, or the company's funding, but that needs to be applied for in advance, for Tian Lu's research plan, where does the funding come from? If you still go to each other to apply for funding, it is not impossible, but in that case, the delay will be longer, after all, if you want to get money from others, at least the preliminary preparation work is to be done very sufficiently, if you meet a more demanding grantee, it will be even more delayed.
With such a complete and feasible scientific research plan, everyone is a little impatient. No one wants to waste their time on this. Therefore, everyone turned their attention to the direction where Tian Lu was located.
For a while, Tian Lu's face also became solemn, frowning tightly, gently tapping on the hard desktop, and asked thoughtfully: "Everyone is an expert, if you estimate it nowβ€ how much research funds will be needed?"
"At least about five hundred to eight million dollars!"
Almost at the same time, Professor Alberto from Italy gave an answer. As early as after reading the proposal, he evaluated the entire study. That's a rough number.
As soon as Professor Alberto finished speaking, Professor Luca from Germany frowned and added: "This figure should be achieved on the basis of Mr. Tian's free provision of epilepsy animal resistance technology. Otherwise, it will at least double!"
The others nodded in unison. Indeed, Tian Lu's animal resistance technology is very important for this research, because the success rate is high and stable, the use of experimental animals will be greatly reduced, and at the same time, it can also save a lot of time, which is why the article can attract so many collaborators as soon as it is published.
The amount of money made everyone's hearts sink.
Compared to basic medical research, which is known for burning money, this figure is really nothing, take NI in the United States as an example. Budgets run into tens of billions of dollars each year, and sometimes even hundreds or even tens of millions of dollars can be allocated for a single study. But for the extremely scholars here, these millions of dollars are an extremely large number!
I'm afraid that everyone's annual scientific research funding is less than one-third of it!
Everyone's mood. At this moment, it has become a little heavy, such a good plan, no one wants to give up, and even wants to postpone it for a year for the sake of funding, but the reality is that if there is no particularly strong sponsor. I'm afraid I'll have to rely on my own strength to return to my home country and apply for funding. Moreover, it is necessary to do as many experiments as you can apply, and it is impossible to arrange the progress of each experiment efficiently as written in the plan.
"What ifγγγγγγ β
After a moment of silence in the conference room, Tian Lu suddenly raised his head and said with a slight smile: "I mean, if I can provide you with timely and sufficient research funds, then are you willing to sacrifice something?"
"What?"
Everyone was stunned.
"Timely and adequate research funding?"
Professor Humphers murmured, immediately raised his head and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Tian, you mean that you have a way to solve the research funds for everyone?"
"Yes. β
Tian Lu nodded and said lightly: "I can think of a way to provide sufficient financial support for everyone, but, as I said just now, the funds I provided are not in vain, and on the contrary, everyone must sacrifice something." β
"Sacrifice what?"
Professor Tanaka, who was the most cautious by nature, asked with a frown. For him, in addition to his great interest in choosing to join, it is also one of the reasons why he can take his career to the next level, and if Tian Lu said that everyone should give up the right of authorship, Professor Tanaka will definitely not accept it.
"Rest assured, the sacrifice I am talking about is definitely not to deprive everyone of their rights. β
Tian Lu smiled and reassured everyone first, and then continued: "The sacrifice I said mainly includes two points. The first point is that all relevant research results, if they are published, must be published in the name of our cooperative group, of course, the author should be whoever he is, this point will not change, and the second point is that if there is something in the research that can produce economic benefits in the future, it must belong to me. Of course, when I say research, I'm referring to the research that I mentioned in the proposal, and that's very clear. β
As soon as Tian Lu explained this, everyone suddenly let out a long breath.
What kind of sacrifice is this?
The first point is not to change his name entirely, but just the prefix of multiple cooperative groups. The second point is that Tian Lu's entire research plan is basically to explain the formation mechanism of epilepsy, pathological mechanism, lesion localization and other basic things, basically it is difficult to have any economic output, or to put it bluntly, these are only huΔ money, not to make money research, generally the state will invest money to do things.
Who in this room doesn't understand this?
According to Tian Lu, everyone can only get a name in this research plan. And there will be no benefit. But for such a study that is unlikely to have economic output, if this is also called sacrifice, I'm afraid no one cares!
It's just that everyone has some doubts in their hearts: This is not tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but millions of dollars, how can Tian Lu get these funds? Could it be that a large enterprise would fund his research?
Don't talk about them. Even Huang Qiaoqiao was stunned and frightened when he heard it on the side!
Oh my! That's a lot of money!
Millions of dollars, where can a mentor get that much money?
Huang Qiaoqiao knew that Tian Lu was rich β‘ so that she could buy equipment for the laboratory with her own money and import a large number of expensive laboratory animals from abroad, but she definitely did not expect it. Tian Lu was able to open his mouth to provide millions of dollars in scientific research funds to everyone, and he didn't even blink his eyes when he spoke!
After everyone said that they could give up this right, Tian Lu suddenly felt big and stood up with a smile: "Everyone, it's not early, since everyone has reached a preliminary agreement, then let's eat first, and in the afternoon, you can seriously think about it first, see what part of the work you are suitable for, and then let's visit my laboratory tomorrow morning." In the afternoon, we will continue to discuss the issue of division of labor and cooperation, what do you think?"
As soon as Tian Lu said this, everyone realized that before they knew it, it was already afternoon!
Liu Ming's secretary, Wang Lie, had already waited outside the conference room. At this time, he hurriedly walked in and led everyone to lunch" Before leaving, Professor Hum Fuss couldn't help but come over and asked quietly: "Mr. Tian, I'm really curious, how do you plan to raise these millions of research funds?"
"Look for it slowly!"
Tian Lu account folded eyes. He smiled mysteriously: "Actually, I'm going to talk about the first start-up fund this afternoonγγγγγγ β
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After lunch, many scholars returned to the hotel to continue to consider which part of the research was suitable for themselves and their unit, and Tian Lu also came to the hotel with them and rang the doorbell of one of the suites.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Brown!"
For this manager who had been waiting for a morning, Tian Lu's smile was bright, and he took the initiative to stretch out his right hand.
"I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Tian!"
As a successful and qualified businessman, Mr. Brown's expression was sincere, and the strength of his right hand was just right, which made people feel his enthusiasm, but did not appear too eager.
The two entered the room and chatted for a few words, and Tian Lu said very dryly: "Mr. Brown, as you know, I had a meeting with several epilepsy scholars from all over the world this morning, and everyone affirmed the article I just published, and of course, my technology for preparing epilepsy animal resistance has also been recognized by them, including Professor Darcy of the University of Edinburgh Medical School in your country!"
Hearing Professor Darcy's name, Brown also nodded seriously and said, "Yes, Professor Darcy and I are old friends, and I trust him quite a lot." β
"I like to keep everything simple. β
Hearing this, Tian Lu continued: "So, let's talk about cooperation now, how about it?"
After a slight hesitation, Brown asked a little tentatively: "Mr. Tian, can you let me see the specific preparation process first? β
"Absolutely. β
Tian Lu nodded and smiled: "Tomorrow morning, several scholars will visit my laboratory, if Mr. Brown doesn't mind, you can go together." β
"Don't mind, of course don't!"
Brown quickly shook his head and smiled.
"So, before I go to the lab, I'd better make sure that your company is really interested in buying my animal resistance preparation technology. β
Tian Lu smiled slightly and said: "After all, no matter what, if your company is asking for an exclusive license for the entire United Kingdom, or even Europe, it is not feasible to say first, at least the price you need to pay is quite highγγγγγγ (To be continued.)
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