At the Fox Chase cancer research centre in Philadelphia, where he became associate director for clinical research in 1964, and where he spent most of his remaining career, he built up a research team from around the world and conducted fieldwork in Africa, India, Canada, Australia, Japan and Scandinavia.
The hospital was directly responsible for the patients, all radiotherapists followed the same regimes, statistics were built up, a research laboratory was developed, there was a mold workshop, and surgeons visited the hospital for complex mixed treatments (or to repair the effects thereof).
Charged, Balch returned to Georgia Tech and built up a research group around financial machine learning.
Finally, and not least important, he was the first person in history to build up a research library, a systematic collection of works to be used by his colleagues and to be handed on to posterity.
All I had to do was to build up a research and service team, dream creatively, share my research ideas with my team and drive R&D forward in the field of in vitro fertilization, which was my passion.
At an age at which many scientists lose interest in research, he built up a third research team, some of whose members successfully tackled the structures of complex organic crystals.
After the war, at Aberdeen, Melville built up a flourishing new research school of physical chemistry, focusing on the new fields of polymer science.
Much of that new understanding has come from the FAO itself and from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), which has built up a body of research on issues such as the use of particular tree varieties and how they can improve soil quality, complement specific field crops, and generate new income streams for smallholders.
Here he built up an effective research group, which included at one time or another Priscilla Avery, Muriel Bradley, Mildred C. Thompson, and Helen Mar Wheeler, among others, devoted to studying the cytology and genetics of Nicotiana.
He built up a section of 40 historians and research assistants covering all aspects of RAF activity and was from, 1943 to 1947, senior narrator.
StarMine, a San Francisco research organization, has built up a nice business capitalizing on this fact.
