On Dec. 7th, a team of Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation scientists led by Dr. Khai C. Ang presented at the Midtown Scholar on an up-and-coming new way to fundraise for the scientific community: crowdfunding. Their talk, entitled, “Bridging the gap: engaging the public in scientific research,” highlighted the current publicly-disengaged structure of academic research. Conventionally, research is solely funded through government agencies such as NIH and NSF; the public is not privy to the progress of research except through subscribing to academic journals, which are written for a purely scientific audience and difficult to understand for non-scientists.
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