Over the years, the Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession has arranged a number of international, interdisciplinary research meetings, several of them resulting in scientific publications. This was also the case with the symposium that LEFO arranged in the summer of 2014, the topic of which was the relationship between doctors’ professional satisfaction, quality of medical care, and t...

With its genome almost fully sequenced, the zebrafish has gone from bit player to rising star among model organisms. Its lower maintenance costs and the ease of tissue imaging in live zebrafish are among the benefits that have cast this organism as an emerging player in disease research and drug screening.

On a recent trip to China and India, I had the opportunity to discuss with many young researchers at various universities about the expectations that they must meet in order to succeed professionally. Many of them thought that the road to success was measured in various forms of “scientometric” data, such as h-index factors and the number of publication citations. I do think that scientometric ...

We provide a game theoretic analysis of information sharing among competing researchers in two contexts: sharing when one researcher is asked by another to share specific information or materials and sharing involving presentation of new results in an open forum. The models are tested based on a survey of German and UK bioscientists. The theory and empirics both suggest that academia is less op...

The aim of this symposium, the second of the biannual ECR symposium series for 2012, is to provide a forum for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their work to fellow researchers and also to foster collaborations, enhance networking and bring together researchers located at the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP). The AMREP ECRs come from the Central Clinical School, ...