Free Web NovelChapter 634: Chapter 362: Inspiration brought by Anger
The Biomedical Research Institute’s plan to construct the Medical Science Center has spread throughout Yanhua University, with many people privately discussing related issues.
Other departments are somewhat indifferent.
The School of Life Sciences is directly involved, as the Medical Science Center is under its name. The professors and teachers of the department certainly show interest.
If the Medical Science Center is established and open to the entire college, professors and teachers will have an additional platform for teaching, experimentation, and self-improvement.
For scholars focused on biological research, the significance of the Medical Science Center is even greater.
Wei Shiqing is one of them.
Although Wei Shiqing is also one of the college’s professors, teaching postgraduates, and even doctoral students every year, his main focus is conducting microbiological research in the Microbiology Laboratory and helping build a microbiological database.
Equipment and resources are vital to any biological researcher.
The Medical Science Center is not only a platform for exchange but also plans to house laboratories, a large equipment center, a medical biology database, and so on. Coupled with the potential for exchange and development, other professors in the college researching different fields would certainly find it appealing.
In the high-end academic field of the School of Life Sciences, the best-developed research directions are biomedical and microbiology.
Wei Shiqing is a representative of the microbiology research direction, hoping that the Medical Science Center will allocate some space for microbiological research.
This space refers not only to rooms within the building but also includes funds for purchasing large-scale equipment, slots for recruiting scholars in the field of microbiology, support for microbiology teachings, and so on.
In essence, he hopes the Medical Science Center will become a shared platform between the Biomedical Research Institute and the Microbiology Laboratory, leaving room for ’bargaining’ in the allocation of resources.
"Thirty percent!"
"At least thirty percent!"
"We’re all part of the same college. How is it that the Biological Science Center belongs only to the Medical Research Institute?"
"Zhao Yi, what do you think.."
"That Yan Xuelin has been administrating too much; sure, the Science Center was their application, but we’re all in one college; they can’t just favour one side."
"What will our college become if the Medical Science Center is only used for biomedical research? Change the name to ’College of Biomedical Sciences’?"
Wei Shiqing kept complaining.
If you don’t know what’s going on and just listen to him talk, you’d definitely think it makes no sense.
The Medical Science Center was applied for by the Biomedical Research Institute because it had produced significant results and received support from large domestic pharmaceutical companies to have sufficient funds to build.
So it’s only natural that the Medical Science Center belongs solely to the Biomedical Research Institute.
In reality, this is not the case.
Wei Shiqing’s hope to ’allocate some space’ is reasonable because the Medical Science Center is under the name of the School of Life Sciences and is established with the support of the School of Life Sciences and Yanhua University.
Firstly, the land used belongs to Yanhua University, and the establishment of the Medical Science Center must be approved by the University.
Secondly, for the Medical Science Center to take root, it needs not only funds but also ample talent, most of which come from the School of Life Sciences.
Additionally, though the Biomedical Research Institute has a degree of independence, it fundamentally remains a scientific research institution under the Yanhua University School of Life Sciences, with many researchers holding teaching positions within the university.
And so forth.
While the establishment of the Medical Science Center is indeed credited to the Biomedical Research Institute, it cannot become an entirely independent institution. Its development must rely on the university and the School of Life Sciences.
In fact, the lines between life science disciplines are not so clearly demarcated, with biomedical research also involving other areas, microbiology being one of them. freёweɓnovel.com
The participation of other academic disciplines would be beneficial for the development of the Medical Science Center.
If viewed from the perspective of the School of Life Sciences and considering the overall development of the School, the situation would be entirely different.
Graduate students and doctoral students trained by the School of Life Sciences have many possible directions, the two most important being biomedical and microbial research. This is because the School has top-notch research institutions domestically, and following respective mentors would result in ample experience.
If the Medical Science Center belongs only to the Biomedical Research Institute, substantial research resources would be tilted towards the ’biomedical’ direction, and the first choice of future outstanding graduates and doctoral students would certainly become biomedical studies, not other fields. Microbiology would be heavily suppressed.
This is definitely not what the School wants to see.
The reason is simple--
The School’s name is the ’School of Life Sciences,’ not the ’School of Biomedical Sciences.’
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While listening to Wei Shiqing’s complaints, Zhao Yi rubbed his temples fiercely, feeling that it was more of a headache than encountering research problems.
From the perspective of the Biomedical Research Institute, the Medical Science Center was applied for by the Institute, and the funds were exchanged for achievements and pharmaceutical factories. It has nothing to do with microbiology research, so naturally, they do not want to allocate a portion of it.
From the College’s perspective, a portion should indeed be allocated for the development and use of other research fields.
