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Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.
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The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.
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Henry Wellcome certainly was a talented character with a colorful and amazing personal story.
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An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.
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In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.
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Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.
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We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.
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There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.
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Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe passionately that breakthroughs emerge when the most talented researchers are given the resources and freedom they need to pursue their goals.
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We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.
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When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
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People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.
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I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we work together to create UKRI. I also look forward to working closely with all of our research and innovation communities to provide a strong and coherent voice for U.K. science and innovation.
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It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.
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Science is not finished until it is communicated.
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We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.
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As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.
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We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces from south Asia.
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Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.
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Clearly, climate change is an extremely important threat to us.
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Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
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