He later became a neuroscientist, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spending most of his career doing basic research on how the brain's cells form connections during learning.

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The outcome of meeting may have a big political impact inside the FDA. Many industry-watchers are seeing this as a tug-of-war between the career FDA employees who run the drug research division, who have kept Avandia on the market so far, and the the Obama appointees who currently run the agency.

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This ten year contraction has been forcing our highly skilled researchers to spend more time raising money than doing the research they spent decades training for, is encouraging established researchers to leave our shores in search of greater funding opportunities or to leave research altogether, and is discouraging the younger generation from embarking on a career in science.

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After talking to Brian I reflected back on my career but more importantly on the hundreds of students I have followed in my research on emerging models of leadership and those dozens I have mentored, at least to some degree.

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Beach spent much of his career in Florida on assignments around the world for the Navy, then made a switch into research on energy policy.

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Capt Roberts worked at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, until the end of the war then spent two years at the War Crimes Investigation Unit, before moving on to a 50-year career in marketing and research.

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