Dr Sam Moxon - Why Some Ideas Never Get a Chance
About this episode
Dr Sam Moxon discusses the challenges researchers face with funding for innovative ideas.
Dr Sam Moxon narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. You develop something genuinely different, cost it, build the team, submit it feeling confident, and then the rejection lands. In this blog, Dr Sam Moxon sits with the researchers who keep watching their most original ideas fall at the panel while safer, more familiar work sails through. He asks a question the field tends to avoid: are our funders too risk averse to back the ideas that might actually change things, and what does that caution do to the people early in their careers who cannot afford to fail? https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-why-some-ideas-never-get-a-chance/ -- Dr Sam Moxon is a biomaterials Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. His expertise falls on the interface between biology and engineering. His PhD focussed on regenerative medicine and he now works on trying to develop 3D bioprinting techniques with human stem cells, so that we better understand and treat degenerative diseases. He is also the Founder and CEO of Aegis FibreTech. Outside of the lab he hikes through the Lake District and is an expert on all things Disney. -- Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new…
People in this episode
Guest: Dr Sam Moxon
Topics covered
- funding challenges
- research innovation
- career development
- risk aversion
- biomaterials
- 3D bioprinting
Keywords
- funding
- research
- innovation
- biomaterials
- 3D bioprinting
- career
- risk aversion
Sponsors
University College London, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Birmingham, Dementia Researcher
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