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Thinking big Texas

机译:思维大德克萨​​斯

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Texans will tell you that they have the biggest and best of anything. And increasingly, they're expanding their bragging rights from oil wells anc cattle to biomedical research. The Lone Star State already has scientific size on its side. A study by the Institute for Economic Development at the University of Texas (UT) at San Antonio reported this March thai the 15 members of the UT system contributed $12.8 billion to the local economy in 2004. And the system's six health institutions alone provided 111,700 jobs. But despite the size of its biomedical enterprise, Texas, which ranks third in the nation for university expenditure in the biosciences and is home to one of the largest medical complexes in the world, has been slow to capitalize on underlying research strengths in biomedicine, biodefence and nanotechnology. That is changing as institutions look more squarely towards technology development, and actively promote research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. One of the six medical-research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has grown from a small wartime medical college to an academic centre with 1,300 faculty members. The original campus couldn't contain this growth, so expansion has been focused on the newer north campus, which recently opened a 14-storey medical-research tower. Building work has started on a six-storey, 18,580-square-metre advanced-imaging centre for animal and human research in neuroscience and cancer. Plans and fund-raising are already under way for a seventh building on that site, says the university's president Kern Wildenthal.
机译:德州人会告诉你,他们拥有最大,最好的东西。越来越多的人将吹牛的权利从油井和牲畜扩展到生物医学研究。孤星国家已经具备了科学的规模。德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校经济发展研究所的一项研究报告说,今年3月,UT系统的15个成员在2004年为当地经济贡献了128亿美元。仅该系统的六个卫生机构就提供了111,700个工作岗位。但是,尽管其生物医学企业规模庞大,但得克萨斯州在生物科学方面的大学支出在美国名列第三,并且是世界上最大的医疗综合体之一的所在地,但一直未能充分利用生物医学,生物防御方面的基础研究优势和纳米技术。随着机构更加侧重于技术发展,并在物理与生命科学之间的接口上积极促进研究,这种情况正在发生变化。达拉斯的UT西南医学中心是六个医学研究机构之一,已经从战时的一所小型医学院发展成为拥有1300名教职员工的学术中心。最初的校园无法容纳这种增长,因此扩展一直集中在较新的北部校园,该校园最近开设了一座14层高的医学研究塔。用于神经科学和癌症的动物和人类研究的六层楼高18,580平方米的高级成像中心的建筑工作已经开始。该大学的校长克恩·维尔登塔尔(Kern Wildenthal)说,该网站上的第七座建筑的计划和筹资已经在进行中。

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    《Nature》 |2005年第7037期|p.1160-1161|共2页
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    Diane Gershon;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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