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Posts Tagged ‘Research Grant’
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Incentives for Researchers
As we highlighted five years ago, grant writing is the sine qua non for all serious academics that seek to advance their […]
Approval of “Living Drug” to Treat Cancer
In 2012 six-year-old Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and, since she did not respond to standard treatment, was near […]
A Crisis in Research Funding
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Comics: A Gateway to Literacy
The American cartoonist Art Spiegelman has referred to comics as “a gateway to literacy,” but they can also, of course, stimulate laughter. […]
AuntMinnie Award for Best Paper
Towards the end of each year the online magazine AuntMinnie.com runs a campaign to identify the best and brightest in medical imaging. […]