In 1968, Robert Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University, contributed an article to Science entitled “The Matthew Effect in Science.” His […]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate
On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Free Access to Research Articles
Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]
China Moving into First Place
It was over six decades ago, in 1955, that Eugene Garfield, while working on his PhD in structural linguistics at the […]
New Director for National Cancer Institute
Fifteen years ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were awarded a […]
Ultrasound and Supercomputing
The European Innovation Council, under the umbrella of its Pathfinder Programme, has recently awarded a grant of €2.7 million to a […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Another US Patent for CapeRay
Five years ago, we reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded CapeRay a key patent to protect our novel dual-modality […]
Quarterback of Hip-Hop
This past Sunday, 13 February 2022, one of America’s great sporting traditions – the Super Bowl – was played in Inglewood, California. […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]