I sometimes hear from people who are interested in working on cellular agriculture or other meat alternatives, and want to do a PhD, but can’t find an advisor who is working on one of those subjects, so they instead plan to research e.g. tissue engineering or cell modeling for the purpose of treating human disease (or some other better funded domain).
In your request for proposals, you seem mostly interested in people who are working full-time on animal-related research.
I’m curious if you have advice for people who are in the situation I described (including “it’s really a lot better to immediately researching impactful things so you should try as hard as you can to do that”), and/or if there are any things people in this position could do that you would be excited to fund?
On who to be in touch with, I would suggest such a prospective student is in touch with groups like GFI and New Harvest if they would like advice on attempting to find advisors for this type of work.
On advice, I would generally stay away from career advice. If forced to answer, I would not give general advice that everyone or most people are better off attempting to do as high impact research as soon as is feasible.
I sometimes hear from people who are interested in working on cellular agriculture or other meat alternatives, and want to do a PhD, but can’t find an advisor who is working on one of those subjects, so they instead plan to research e.g. tissue engineering or cell modeling for the purpose of treating human disease (or some other better funded domain).
In your request for proposals, you seem mostly interested in people who are working full-time on animal-related research.
I’m curious if you have advice for people who are in the situation I described (including “it’s really a lot better to immediately researching impactful things so you should try as hard as you can to do that”), and/or if there are any things people in this position could do that you would be excited to fund?
On who to be in touch with, I would suggest such a prospective student is in touch with groups like GFI and New Harvest if they would like advice on attempting to find advisors for this type of work.
On advice, I would generally stay away from career advice. If forced to answer, I would not give general advice that everyone or most people are better off attempting to do as high impact research as soon as is feasible.