And she began to fixate on what she considered the cautionary tale of Douglas Prasher, a molecular biologist whose research funding dried up in 1992, when his tenure prospects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution seemed in doubt.
Max Perutz, a biologist at the Medical Research Council's laboratory in Cambridge, England, has been trying to find out what it is in the environment that has changed.
The research team, led by synthetic biologist Omri Amirav-Drory and plant scientist Kyle Taylor, aims to transplant a bioluminescence gene into a small plant called Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family.
"Right now we can say that in spite of all this traffic and population, there are still dolphins trying to stay in this area, " says Dr. Ayaka Ozturk, a Japanese marine biologist with the Turkish Marine Research Foundation.
"My goal is to extend survival limits, " says maverick biologist Mark Roth at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
The MIT biologist and AIDS researcher takes Merck's top research spot.
En Li, a Shanghai-born biologist with a long track record of academic papers and research at major American institutions, will head Novartis's new research institute.
But critics would say Vioxx's problems started in 2001, two years before Kim fully took over as head of Merck research. (He had just left a job as a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel was reviewing a large study that proved Vioxx's big selling point: it causes fewer ulcers than cheaper, generic pain pills.
Cancer research "is a little like physics before Isaac Newton, " says evolutionary biologist Franziska Michor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who has devised a model of how leukemia cells respond to the drug Gleevec.
Similarly, the National Engineering Research Centre for Beijing Biochip Technology is headed by Cheng Jing, an engineer and molecular biologist trained in Britain and America.
Rafael Joglar, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico, has noted the diminishing nighttime calls in decades of research on the island and not just from the three species believe to have gone extinct.
Brian Mautz, an American biologist now at the University of Ottawa, was the lead author of the study, and conducted his research while in Australia.
Kindler showed his penchant for creative thinking by also hiring biologist Corey Goodman, the founder of biotechs Exelixis and Renovis, to start what is essentially a parallel research operation in San Francisco.
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