Scientists Confront Funding Crisis with Collaborations to Combat Economic Pressures with Hamid Ghanadan LINUS

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Hamid Ghanadan, CEO of LINUS, discusses the findings of the company's recent state-of-the-science research, a semiannual survey that tracks sentiment and confidence within the life sciences. Notably, a growing gap in optimism exists between academic and biopharma scientists. As a result, academics are seeking partnerships at a new level due to economic pressures from grant cancellations, the need for multidisciplinary collaboration to solve complex problems, and the desire for a stronger collective voice. AI was identified as the top priority for academia and biopharma, as is the need to improve communication with the public about scientific discoveries and medical advancements.

Hamid explains, "We started the state-of-the-science research four years ago, so this is the eighth time that we've done it. And what we're really doing is measuring consumer confidence within the life sciences. So we track sentiment, we track funding, we track barriers and opportunities, as well as purchase intentions. And we do it every six months for the coming six months of the year."

"So here you have to take into consideration that we talk to scientists globally in this survey, and we talk to them from a variety of different settings and environments. So while about half of our respondents are from academic institutions around the world, the other half are in a variety of industries, mostly biopharma. And we see here that there's a shift, there's a difference in sentiment and in optimism, in outlook, in interest in science, in the applicability of science, and how these different groups are managing it. As you can imagine, the academics are feeling a lot more pressure."

"The consumer sentiment is lower, and there's definitely more fear in that cohort of scientists. Biopharma is actually surprisingly more resilient, more forward-looking. So on the biopharma side, what we're seeing is that there's actually surprising resilience and there's forward-looking intentions. And we see that scientists are actually looking forward to applying new techniques and new technologies that are coming online, and they have more confidence in their ability to make progress for the second half of 2025."

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