The fellowship will allow her to spend some time in California, USA to learn pioneering techniques and collaborate with two leading research groups at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford Medical School.

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Last November, Pfizer and Children's Hospital Boston signed a one-year research agreement to collaborate on fish screening in muscular dystrophy.

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First, the Act specifically allows investment bankers and research analysts to formally collaborate on an IPO (although appropriately retaining the independence safeguards designed to protect investors).

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One participant was John Wilbanks, who earned a degree in philosophy from Tulane and went on to run Science Commons, which focuses on getting scientists to collaborate by signing agreements to exchange research data.

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They will collaborate with colleagues led by Professor Andrew McMichael, of the Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit in Oxford.

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But research is still hard in India: academics are reluctant to collaborate with filthy capitalists, and local investors are wary of the slow slog of drug discovery.

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Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, told the BBC it was vital scientists were able to import animals, so they could collaborate with colleagues abroad.

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