But it is a big jump from the 20-person lab Kim runs at MIT's prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to Merck, where he'll be in charge of more than 4, 500 research personnel.

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Right now the British Antarctic Survey is preparing to send off about 150 scientists and personnel for the regular summer research season.

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Giving evidence to the committee on 2 November 2010, Dr John Philipott, the chief economic adviser to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, was questioned over how his research had been calculated.

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Recommendations for national capacity development on training and re-training personnel for quality ECCE (policy, systems, scientific research, innovations and curriculum development) will be developed.

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Research into diseases of the mind, the production of medicines, the training and employment of treatment personnel -- might these not emerge as giant industries of tomorrow?

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Mr Hoon won applause when he pledged that British forces would never again lay anti-personnel landmines and when he said Labour had more than doubled spending on Gulf War veterans research.

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The Office of Navy Research's interest comes from potential future applications, working side-by-side with military personnel out on missions, which along with iRobot 110, forms the early foundations for the cyber army of our childhood imaginations.

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