bsp; Yale professor and Howard Hunghes Medical institute investigator
Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human
disease at Shanghai's Fudan University,in collaborate with faculty
colleagues from both school ; The Shanghaicenter has 95 employees
and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratry
facility. Yale faculty, postdoctors and graduate students visit
regularly and attend videoconference seminars with scientists from
both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries;Xu's Yale lab
is more productive, thanks to the lower costs Of conducting research
in China,and Chinese graduate students, postdoctor and faculty get
on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U.S.team.
For all its success, the Untied States remendis deeply hesitant
about sustaining the research-university model. Most politicians
recognize the link between investment in science and national
economic strength, but support for research funding has been
unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled
between 1998 and 2003. but has risen more slowly than inflation
since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely
kept pace with inflation during that same period 1 h attempt to make
up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by
steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of
long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3
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