A search for big breakthroughs in the lab is not enough.
Meanwhile drug company GlaxoSmithKline announced £200m of investment to set up a "centre of excellence" that will focus on turning breakthroughs in the lab into effective drugs – a key phase in the hunt for viable treatment for dementia.
More importantly, though, I was exposed for the first time to the wide variety of career paths that people take that span medicine and research.I was excited to see how these two areas could gohand in hand, where clinical problems motivate the direction of research and where breakthroughs in the lab are then brought back to the clinic.
But breakthroughs in the lab aren't always necessary.
The ultimate objective is to advance the movement of scientific breakthroughs in the lab into new drugs and other patient therapies, often delivered by startup companies.
Today, most of the world's long-distance traffic is carried by optical-fiber cables-more than 370 million kilometers of the stuff, all of it designed before today's breakthroughs in the labs.
Any breakthroughs reached in the labs aboard the International Space Station can't wait for days while the navy hauls Orion out of the ocean and returned to port.
The breakthrough discovery typically drives this entrepreneur in the "lab" of their business - where they want to invent, design and tinker.
The company has managed to overcome the hurdle of bringing a breakthrough technology from the lab to a commercial application in an industrial environment.
A recent breakthrough in Kim's lab is the incorporation of a type of high-powered computing, called neural network machine learning, to help determine the phase of a material.
