Notas y recursos sobre gestión de la ciencia y la innovación

Andrés Alba-Pérez

Management of science and innovation

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  • Outstanding skills of the academic researcher and how to improve them

    Outstanding skills of the academic researcher and how to improve them

    There are several outstanding skills that academic researchers develop and use during their career, sometimes inadvertently. These are in addition to an expert knowledge of the state-of-the-art of a field, and of how the public R&D system works, which could be said that are the competences taken for granted for an academic researcher. The usual… Read more

  • Stem cell research: for small labs it makes sense to focus on basic research, to support future better human trials.

    Stem cell research: for small labs it makes sense to focus on basic research, to support future better human trials.

    In the last decade research funding and interest in stem cell research has moved its focus to tackle hurdles that limit clinical translation to humans, such as reliability and safety of cell sources, and their scaled-up manufacturing. A challenge remains however in the scope of basic science, to understand mechanisms of stem cell biology that… Read more

  • Como elegir un gran colaborador científico

    Como elegir un gran colaborador científico

    Mi resumen y notas de una columna publicada recientemente en la revista Nature: How to pick a great scientific collaborator escrita por el profesor danés Carsten Lund Pedersen. >Encontrar grandes colaboradores y poder trabajar con ellos de manera productiva es uno de los predictores más importantes de éxito. >Hay tres rasgos principales de un gran… Read more

  • Building a healthy team through collaborative interactions

    Building a healthy team through collaborative interactions

    Versión en español de este artículo This is just a quick note on a really big goal for researchers at any stage of their careers: having a good team around and being self-critical about it. I had an interesting conversation around this a short time ago. Searched and read a little about it and noticed… Read more

  • Management of (big) research teams

    Management of (big) research teams

    Ideas to successfully manage a team of researchers, and what success means in this context. Some academic research teams are standalone, usually embedded in university departments, while others are part of research institutes or other structures with shared goals. Most teams are rather small, with an average (for biology research groups in the UK in… Read more

  • In vitro models of tissues. Key industry players in 2021.

    In vitro models of tissues. Key industry players in 2021.

    Clinical trials are the final step to demonstrate if a new drug is safe and works. Before testing on humans, drugs usually pass numerous preclinical studies. Sometimes a compound seems to be effective in its therapeutic function and non toxic in a preclinical model, but then it fails to perform equally in humans. Actually, it… Read more