tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79662406482183708322024-03-12T21:56:23.859-07:00Nobel Prize Inspiration InitiativeBy bringing Nobel Laureates on visits to universities and research centres around the world and capturing their thoughts on video, the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative seeks to bring the Laureates into closer contact with the worldwide scientific community, and especially with young scientists. The Initiative is organised by Nobel Media in partnership with AstraZeneca.NPIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331236633381270320noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966240648218370832.post-33985771591736163882014-06-12T23:02:00.000-07:002014-06-12T23:02:09.439-07:00NPII brings Tim Hunt to China<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although officially retired, <b>Sir Tim Hunt FRS</b> remains a major character in British life sciences. Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (which he shared with his colleagues Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell), Hunt's discovery changed how we understand the process of cell division.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">He discovered <i>cyclins</i>, </span><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">a family of proteins that control the cell cycle by activating specific CDK (cyclin-dependent kinase) enzymes. Cyclins were originally named because their concentration varies during the cell cycle; these days, we know that not all cyclins "cycle" throughout the process, but th</span></span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">eir catchy </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">name stuck. The discovery of cyclins heralded an explosion of research interest in the cell cycle, and their </span></span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">central role in cell division has made </span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">them a focal point in cancer research, an area in which Dr Hunt worked for twenty years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">We at Nobel Media (in partnership with AstraZeneca) were delighted to invite Dr Hunt to take part in the<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/" target="_blank">Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative</a></b></span> in China in June 2014. </span></span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">This was Dr Hunt’s second NPII event – he also visited </span><a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/events/uk-tim-hunt/" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" target="_blank">Manchester in 2010</a><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> - but China held a particular interest for Tim. He has long been fascinated with Chinese cookery thanks to an interest in chef and food writer </span><a href="http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/about/" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" target="_blank">Fuchsia Dunlop</a></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> So, rather uniquely for NPII, this trip combined science, communication and food!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">First on the agenda was <i>Shanghai</i>, where Tim would meet young scientists from Fudan University, along with researchers at AstraZeneca's </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zhangjiang campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lecture was heavily subscribed and was followed by a fascinating Q&A session with the audience that covered everything from the role of cyclins in cancer to what it felt like to be awarded a Nobel Prize. It was also translated simultaneously into Mandarin by a very talented translator who was thoroughly briefed by Dr Hunt. After a busy media session with press and trade journalists, it was off to indulge Dr Hunt's other passion - Chinese cuisine! The local AstraZeneca team found a fantastic restaurant which allowed Tim to try lots of new foods, including roasted snake. But it was an early night for the team - next up was the large lecture theatre of Fudan University.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Hunt was greeted like a celebrity at Fudan, mobbed by the huge group of students who attended his fascinating lecture, <i>“Lessons from a Life in Science: How to Get a Nobel Prize”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next it was on to an informal roundtable with some of Sichuan's best and brightest young researchers. This discussion turned out to be on of our very best sessions, covering issues from the state of research in China, through to impact factors and the challenges facing female scientists in academia. The entire session was filmed, and will soon appear on the website as a series of short clips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Hunt was also given some lovely gifts from each of the venues he visited, but it seems that few made him happier than this panda scroll from <i>Dr Li Weimin, Dean of West China School of Medicine! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with all of Dr Hunt's lectures, this one was completely over-subscribed, with close to 400 scientists and doctors filling the venue. During the Q&A, Tim took to the floor with his microphone and a fascinating discussion ensued! This lecture was filmed and will very soon be available to watch on the NPII site</span><br />
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NPIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331236633381270320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966240648218370832.post-29396770481351139562014-04-25T03:39:00.002-07:002014-04-25T06:36:12.877-07:00Roger Kornberg visits Scandinavia to talk science and innovation<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rewind to 4 Oct 2006. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.812801361083984px;">Professor Gunnar Öquist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has just announced the </span>Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for that year - Roger D. Kornberg. Unusually for one of the science prizes, it was unshared - Kornberg was the sole recipient of the prize.</span><br />
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It was awarded for Kornberg's fundamental studies on <b>transcription</b> - the process by which the information stored in the genes is copied and transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Kornberg was the <b>first</b> to create an actual picture of this process at the molecular level in eukaryotes - a group of organisms that include everything from fungus to humans!</span><br />
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Constant transcription of the genetic information in the DNA is a central process for all living beings. The DNA-molecule itself lies protected within the cell nuclei. The genetic information therefore needs to be copied and transformed into "messenger DNA", which can then move the information out from the nucleus and to the protein-producing part of the cell. These proteins can then construct the organism, and define its function. Any interruptions in transcription can have severe consequences - illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and many inflammatory diseases have links to disturbances in the transcription process. Roger Kornberg was the first to create an image of this process "in action" - and these images make it possible to understand the molecular mechanisms governing transcription.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Figure 1. The transcription process as depicted by Roger Kornberg in 2001. RNA-polymerase in grey / white, DNA-helix in blue and the </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">growing RNA-strand in orange</span></span></div>
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Now back to 2014 - in early April, Roger Kornberg talked about his incredible discovery, and <b>much</b> more, in packed lecture theatres in Gothenburg and Copenhagen as part of the <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/" style="background-color: #fce5cd;" target="_blank">Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative (NPII)</a>. His first visit was to the <b>University of Gothenburg</b>, where he spoke to students and staff from the hosting university and from <span style="line-height: 20px;">Chalmers University of Technology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The talk was incredibly-well received and the audience Q&A offered some fascinating debate and discussion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favourite part of our NPII events are always the <b>roundtable sessions with students, postgrads and postdocs</b>, and the group from GU and Chalmers didn't disappoint! Questions ranged from how to maintain a good work-life-balance, to what the Nobel Prize means to a scientist. Collaboration and publishing were also discussed and debated, and both the students and Dr Kornberg left the session feeling invigorated. As always, we filmed the whole session and the highlights will be shared as short clips on the <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/" style="background-color: #fce5cd;" target="_blank">NPII website</a> in the coming months - keep an eye out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After an interview with a local journalist and a delicious lunch with other junior scientists, it was off to the next venue - <b style="background-color: #fbfbfa; line-height: 16px;">AstraZeneca</b><span style="background-color: #fbfbfa; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> Mölndal. AstraZeneca are our partners on these events, and we were very excited to get to their Swedish research HQ. The atmosphere was a little different at AZ - Dr Kornberg didn't speak about his science, instead he took part in a fascinating discussion on the importance of creativity in innovative science. The AZ staff turned out in huge numbers - there were people sitting on the auditorium steps. We even had to set up an "overview" area in the canteen for those who couldn't get in!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roger Kornberg was joined by <span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">three other guests:</span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> </span><em style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">Karin Markides</em><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">, President and CEO of Chalmers University;</span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> </span><em style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">Mene Pangalos,</em><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">Executive Vice President of AstraZeneca’s Innovative Medicines and Early Developments arm and</span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> </span><em style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">Richard Neutze</em><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg. </span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">This discussion was led by</span><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"> </span><em style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">Adam Smith</em><span style="font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;">, Chief Scientific Officer at Nobel Media AB - you can watch it in full here: </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/videos/panel-discussion-create-innovative-environment/">http://www.nobelprizeii.org/videos/panel-discussion-create-innovative-environment/</a></span></span><br />
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We <b>really</b> enjoyed our visit to Copenhagen and Gothenburg - we promise to share the lecture video very soon, and keep an eye on the site for hints and tips from Dr Kornberg. We also had some lovely interactions on Storify, which you can read <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://storify.com/NobelPrizeii/npii-scandinavia-roger-kornberg-april-2014" target="_blank">here</a>.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative event will be in China - we'll be bringing <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/events/china-shanghai-chengdu/" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;" target="_blank">Tim Hunt to Shanghai and Chengdu</a> on the 3rd June.... so lots more posts to come!</span>NPIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02331236633381270320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966240648218370832.post-62839277019293534832013-11-11T04:24:00.001-08:002014-01-20T04:12:24.216-08:00Dr. Craig Mello visits Maryland<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">After a breakfast with executives from UMB, Dr Mello was introduced to a packed auditorium by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Dr Bruce E. Jarrell</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> (pictured below)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">, Chief Academic and Research Officer, Senior President, Dean of the UMB Graduate School. Dr Jarrell said that he looked forward to hearing stories from Dr Mello, as </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"It's stories that we remember & that make us human"</i></div>
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Steve Projan, Infectious Disease & Vaccines iMED Head, MedImmune also said a few words about the relationship between academia and industry in medical research, and encouraged the students to make the most of the opportunity to speak with Dr Mello.</div>
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Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media talked about the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative, and then it was on to Dr Mello's talk <b>“A Worm’s Tale: Secrets of Inheritance and Immortality”</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The opening of the talk was nothing less than an ode to nematode worm, with a high-energy soundtrack! Dr Mello pondered everything from the beginnings of life in the Universe, to his most recent work on DNA translation </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">using </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-is-a-triumph-of-basic-science-with-huge-implications-crispr-technique-breaks-the-mould-8925323.html" style="line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">CRISPR</a> (which is making headlines in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-jawdropping-breakthrough-hailed-as-landmark-in-fight-against-hereditary-diseases-as-crispr-technique-heralds-genetic-revolution-8925295.html" target="_blank">many newspapers</a> at the moment!). Dr Mello also spoke about Nobel-awarded work on RNA-interference (RNAi). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RNAi is often referred to as the search engine of cell and it allows researchers to rapidly “knock out” the expression of specific genes and to thus define the biological functions of those genes. RNAi also provides a potential therapeutic avenue to silence genes that contribute to disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning on 5th November, it was an early start to visit <a href="http://www.medimmune.com/" target="_blank">MedImmune</a>, a key sponsor for this event. Bahija Jallal, Executive Vice President, MedImmune introduced Dr Mello to the large audience of scientists, all eager to hear more about <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2006/" target="_blank">RNAi</a>. Dr Mello's talk was once again fascinating - he introduced the germline <i>"...the immortal lineage" </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a lunch with MedImmune's junior scientists, Dr Mello was interviewed by the Nobel Media team - during that interview, we think we managed to capture some real insights into Dr Mello's career, his life, his research and his background - we can't wait to share them with you on <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/" target="_blank">our site </a> over the coming weeks and months. All of Dr. Mello's visit was filmed by our hardy film crew, who took a well-earned break afterwards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">It looks like Dr Mello's visit was well-received - have a look at a selection of tweets from the event itself! </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://storify.com/NobelPrizeii/npii-maryland-nov13-craig-mello" target="_blank">Storify account of Dr. Mello's visit</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>All of the event photos, Dr Mello's lecture video, and a collection of highlights from the event can be viewed <a href="http://www.nobelprizeii.org/events/craig-mello/" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Soon we'll share the many many pearls of wisdom that Dr Mello shared on his trip, in the form of bit-sized-clips. Expect to hear about everything from his experience at school, to receiving that phone call from Stockholm.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>About
Nobel Laureate Craig Mello</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Craig C. Mello is an
Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland,
United States, and holds the Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and
is Co-Director of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Mello shared the
2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Andrew Fire, for their <i>“discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) - gene
silencing by double-stranded RNA.”<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the Nobel Prize, Dr.
Mello’s work on RNAi was recognised with several awards including the National
Academy of Sciences Molecular Biology Award, the Canadian Gairdner
International Award, the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Award, and the
Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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...<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Admit it.
Plenty of us have pictured how we would respond to THAT phone call from
Stockholm, telling us that we’d been awarded a Nobel Prize. But it’s good to
know that many of the science Nobel Laureates admit to having had that same
daydream too! Peter Agre, who shared the 2003 Chemistry Prize with Roderick
MacKinnon, was very honest when speaking to a group of Russian students:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Each of
the Nobel Prizes can be shared between up to three individuals each year, but
even then, the actual number of Nobel Laureates in the sciences is tiny. In
total, <b>565 people</b> have been awarded
one of the Science Prizes (Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry) since
1901, and that includes the eight newest Laureates <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/"><i>announced last week</i></a>. Higgs, Levitt and Schekman and their
fellow awardees, find themselves in a very privileged position! But did they ever
<b>really</b> think that they would be
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Elizabeth Blackburn, who shared the Medicine or
Physiology prize with Jack Szostak and her colleague Carol Greider in 2009, never
expected the odds to fall in her favour:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Did these
highly-</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">respected researchers always dream of becoming
scientists? And what were their early influences? Oliver Smithies, who shared
the 2007 Medicine or Physiology prize with Mario Capecchi and Sir Martin Evans,
describes what he wanted to be when he grew up – how would you answer that
question?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">And Peter
Doherty, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rolf M.
Zinkernagel, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">realised</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> that he was good at science in school, but may have ended
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
clear from answers like this that the one thing that these scientists have in
common is their love for their work. But, were they always destined for
scientific greatness? Many “Science Laureates” hail from scientific families –
Bruce Beutler, the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine spoke fondly
to an American student about the role that science played in his childhood:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">These
clips form part of the<b> Nobel</b> <b>Prize Inspiration Initiative (NPII)</b>,
which aims to inspire and communicate with scientists, at all stages of their
career. The initiative, led by <i>Nobel
Media</i>, brings a Laureate to a series of universities, where they give a
lecture and take part in series of Q&A sessions with young scientists. This
new website hopes to extend the reach of the initiative, by sharing of the
content from these events with a <b>global
audience</b> of scientists. The collection of short clips and lecture videos
allows the Laureates to share their insights on everything from their
childhood, through to communicating research, career options, and maintaining a
good work-life balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the initiative on Twitter<span style="color: #073763;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/NobelPrizeii"><i><span style="color: #073763;">@NobelPrizeii</span></i></a>
</span>or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NobelPrizeInspirationInitiative"><i><span style="color: #073763;">Facebook</span></i></a> #NPII<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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