In: Commentaries
The strategy may change, but high quality standards should stay
July 9, 2018Like many of our colleagues in neuroscience, we were surprised to see the recent steps Pfizer took in the field of…
Read MoreIs reading book summaries the same as reading the actual book?
June 6, 2018Books that can be summarized in three sentences (https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries). And one can summarize in a couple of sentences what most movies…
Read MoreHow to grow a healthy lab
June 6, 2018A healthy research environment is fundamental to good science. However, this is an aspect that is rarely discussed. That’s partly because…
Read MoreHow to shift the incentive for researchers from quantity to quality?
June 6, 2018In the current hyper-competitive research environment, scientists feel the constant need to publish novel findings as often and as fast as…
Read MoreCrossing the river
March 30, 2018In the previous issue of the Newsletter, we have already highlighted the recent paper by Bernhard Voelkl et al. from University…
Read MoreEveryone knows mouse research is completely pointless
March 30, 2018We strongly disagree with the title above – however, this statement is borrowed from a recent post on Medical Republic. While…
Read More‘Don’t shoot the dog!’
February 27, 2018Behavioral scientists know very well how to train humans and animals to perform a desired response and how to avoid behaviors…
Read MoreLessons from clinical studies’ (Martin C. Michel)
January 23, 2018At least partly driven by regulatory requirements, technical data quality in clinical studies has markedly improved in the past decades and…
Read MoreThe link between Portfolio Evolution and the Robustness of early phase drug discovery data
December 19, 2017The reproducibility discussion involves everyone who funds, authorizes, supervises, plans, conducts and publishes research. This recent LifeSciVC post showed that lacking research rigor…
Read MoreThe link between Portfolio Evolution and the Robustness of early phase drug discovery data
December 19, 2017The reproducibility discussion involves everyone who funds, authorizes, supervises, plans, conducts and publishes research. This recent LifeSciVC post showed that lacking…
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