At Brookhaven, where most research involves basic science, many scientists said they believed that the badge system, which was to be put into effect by December, was akin to racial profiling.
Clinical researchers might look into writing about basic science, and basic scientists might consider starting in an applied medical arena.
One strategic goal [ 15] for creating the CTSA program was to bridge the gaps between different disciplines and remove barriers to communication, which can increase the efficiency of collaboration between the basic science researcher, clinical scientist and practicing physician.
Physician-scientists, after all, publish their work in the same highly regarded basic science journals as Ph.D. scientists and sometimes investigate similar or even identical systems.
Our NIH-funded team of basic science researchers and physician scientists develops novel imaging solutions for pediatric patients with the goal to tackle significant problems encountered in clinical practice.
"The idea is to try to get clinicians, basic science researchers, mathematicians, computer scientists -- you name it -- to actually talk to each other," Cain says.
In addition to exploring the basic science behind the hand, the scientists there are applying their results to high-tech systems like virtual reality for surgical simulations in which the user can "see, touch and feel" the tissues involved.
Within the life sciences, the panelists believe medical and clinical departments to be more accessible to LGBT scientists than basic science departments.
David Walker, chairman of the pathology department at UTMB, said that for decades, researchers working in hot labs by necessity focused on "how to manage an outbreak or how to protect a solider, not the layers of basic science that we do as scientists". Now, he said, researchers at the new labs can work not only to develop biodefense measures but also to study emerging viruses worldwide.
