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Asked by ryan1 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 25 Mar 2010 in Categories: Downsides.
Question: Is there anything similar in the world to you work
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Joseph Devlin answered on 25 Mar 2010:
Hi ryan,
Not entirely sure what you mean here. There are jobs in industry that are somewhat similar to what I do in academia, yes.
Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, have a strong interest in research in order to develop new drugs and intervention methods that could potentially help people so they have a real interest in neuroscience research.
Telecommunication companies (like BT) also have an interest in language, speech and communication and they also do research in those areas related to my own work.
And anyone interested in building thinking computers (like robots!) is doing related work too. In fact, that’s how I got started in my career. I wanted to build computers that could talk and think and was failing miserably (like everyone else). That got me wondered how it works in humans.
If I misunderstood your Q, though, do let me know!
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Nick Bradshaw answered on 25 Mar 2010:
Well there are probably about 20 labs around the world who are working on the same “schizophrenia protein” as me – it is a pretty hot topic at the moment in schziophrenia research. Most of them are in the USA, particaularly around the Boston area, although there are also a couple of groups in Japan, one in Canada and a few in the UK working on it. Having said that, it was originally discovered up here in Scotland.
All of the labs are (hopefully) trying to study it from different angles and by different techniques – there is a lot of information coming out on it very quickly now. The Edinburgh group work very closely with a number of these other labs – and we hope to build collaborations with more in the future.
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Nick commented on :
Ok, think we took two very different interpretations of that question Joe. Do let us know exactly what you do mean Ryan1.