Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 976: Chapter 491: We’re Here for the Experiment, Not for Eating_1

Affiliated Laboratory of Central North Medical College.

Deng Bingcheng was a researcher at the laboratory, the director of neurology research, and at the same time, he was also a famous neurosurgeon at Zhongbei Hospital, specializing in treating patients with psychiatric disorders through surgery.

As a neurosurgeon, research in neurology was indispensable. Understanding of brain nerves, nerve damage, and neurology was directly related to his professional level and capabilities. Each surgery he performed required ample theoretical support for every decision made throughout the procedure.

Deng Bingcheng took his research in neurology very seriously and devoted a great deal of effort to conducting relevant experiments, achieving some top-notch research results.

For instance, over the past two decades, he had published more than a dozen papers on human neural networks, neurological experiments, and treatment of neurological diseases in top international neurology journals.

In the field of neurology within the country, Deng Bingcheng could be considered very successful.

However, there was an issue with neurology: it was easy to produce research results, but extraordinarily difficult to achieve top-tier breakthroughs.

Deng Bingcheng had a deep understanding of this.

Although he had published several top neurology papers, most were summaries and analyses of experimental results, analyses of patient treatments, and insights into the human neural network, but none were the kind of fundamental discoveries that could truly influence the world, advance the field of neurology, or represent the most basic scientific research findings.

Deng Bingcheng yearned to make fundamental contributions because it was the foundation that could propel the development of neurology and have a profound impact.

Therefore, he applied for the ’neural signal transmission’ research project.

When he decided to apply, Deng Bingcheng knew it would be difficult to obtain substantial funding because those in the know were aware that ’neural signal transmission’ was a ’funding bait’ project.

Because it was difficult!

If a comparison were to be made, cracking ’neural signal transmission’ was more challenging than proving the Goldbach Conjecture or Fermat’s Last Theorem. Decades of efforts by numerous neurologists and physicists had not yielded any progress that was recognized by the world as meaningful.

The current basic framework of neural signal transmission still operated on theories proposed sixty years ago, even though they were questioned by many.

The difficulty of ’neural signal transmission’ was so high, it was deemed ’impossible to accomplish.’ However, it was very easy to write a paper on it. Medical research projects of an experimental nature only required a few experiments, observations to be analyzed, and some unique perspectives in order to meet the project’s requirements.

With such a process in place, one could argue there were results, but equally, one could say there were none. Under the guise of conducting ’neural signal transmission’ research, baiting funding was more than suitable. Even if subjected to higher-level scrutiny, with experiments, papers, and analyses in place, what more could the review process demand?

As long as there were no major issues, it was generally impossible to detect any malpractice during the audits.

Over time, ’neural signal transmission’ research was listed as a ’funding bait’ project.

Deng Bingcheng’s application for the project was not to bait funding; he genuinely wanted to conduct research. He hadn’t considered whether he would achieve any results. He simply wanted to carry out experiments related to neural transmission, observing the experimental situation to deepen his understanding of neural responses.

Such an experiment with little likelihood of results was too extravagant to fund with laboratory finances alone, so he decided to apply for funding from the scientific research foundation.

After submitting the application, it was no surprise that he received a prompt reply asking him to provide a detailed application report. freewebnovёl.ƈom

Deng Bingcheng immediately instructed the laboratory’s associate researcher to prepare a report on the neural signal transmission project, emphasizing the importance of neural signal studies for the medical treatment of psychiatric disorders.

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The Scientific Research Foundation.

The application from Zhao Yi’s laboratory was quickly handed over to the leadership team responsible for medical science research departments, who convened a meeting without delay.

If it were any other type of biomedical research, the leadership team could make a decision on the spot and approve it directly. The only matter to discuss was the exact amount of funding to be allocated. Scientific funding decisions generally work this way; you don’t get as much as you apply for. The same was true for the top scientists, since their funds are also limited, and every single scientific funding grant must be made with great care.

Of course.

When it came to the project application from Zhao Yi’s laboratory, there wasn’t any need for such ’review.’

After some discussion, the leadership team quickly decided to support Zhao Yi’s laboratory in carrying out the ’neural signal transmission’ research project and allocated six million in project funding.

The decision was made quickly for two reasons: first, because it was Zhao Yi’s laboratory applying, and second, because the ’lineup’ for the project application was indeed strong. Including Zhao Yi, five researchers were founding on the project, which was equivalent to half of the Biomedical Research Institute.

The Biomedical Research Institute had become one of the top domestic medical research institutions.

The lineup of five researchers from the institute was more robust than some mid-sized medical laboratories, not to mention that it included Zhao Yi, who had achieved significant results in both medical and other scientific fields.

An additional reason for the full support from the Scientific Research Foundation was that the basic scientific projects awarded each year were not intended as a benefit for funding baiters, but rather they hoped someone would undertake them.

Fundamental research is extremely important, sometimes even more so than direct therapeutic interventions, because it provides theoretical support for advanced research.