The phrase "a massive research effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large-scale initiative or undertaking focused on conducting research in a particular field or topic.
Example: "The government has launched a massive research effort to combat climate change and develop sustainable energy solutions."
Alternatives: "a significant research initiative" or "a large-scale research project".
This realization has generated a massive research effort focused on apoptosis.
Despite a massive research effort, our understanding of the evolution of female mate choice remains incomplete [1, 2].
With the rapid development of advanced sensing and data analysis techniques, a massive research effort has been performed to monitor structural health from vibration signals.
Schemes involving use of solar energy to split water are currently of high interest, and a massive research effort is underway worldwide to accomplish this goal.
Then, this past August, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a massive research effort known as the PURE study.
Right now a massive research effort is underway into the science of translocating heat-resistant corals from, say, the much warmer northern waters of the Great Barrier Reef to more southern areas.
Given the massive research effort that has, and will be, allocated toward resolving the tree of life, an understanding of the scale of the problem is important.
The relevance of rice as staple food resource for the world, its compact 389 Mbp genome [ 25] and its role as a "model" species for genomic studies of cereals [ 26, 27] have driven massive research efforts that include the production of the first finished genome sequence of any crop plant [ 25].
In the meantime, human sentence parsing has attracted massive research efforts for decades in the field of cognitive psychology.
Despite massive research efforts, the exact pathogenesis and pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, remain largely unknown.
Massive research efforts are ongoing to find treatments for cancer, still an unresolved problem and of course a heavy burden on health care.
