@article{1d6b496676b84d73a7b173d4de37e25e,
title = "A perspective on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on basic science research and its future implications",
abstract = "COVID-19 has emerged as a devastating pandemic of the century that the current genera-tions have ever experienced. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 12 million people around the globe, and 0.5 million people have succumbed to death. Due to the lack of effective vaccines against the COVID-19, several nations throughout the globe have imposed a lock-down as a preventive measure to lower the spread of COVID-19 infection. As a result of lock-down, most of the universities and research institutes have witnessed a long pause in basic science research ever. Much has been discussed about the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the economy, tourism, public health, small and large-scale businesses of several kinds. However, the long-term effects of the shut-down of these research labs and their impact on basic science research has not been much focused. Herein, we provide a perspective that portrays a common problem of all the basic science researchers throughout the globe and its long-term consequences.",
keywords = "basic science, COVID-19, lock-down, pandemic, research, SARS-CoV-2",
author = "Paudel, {Yam Nath} and Efthalia Angelopoulou and Giri, {Bhupendra Raj} and Christina Piperi and Iekhsan Oth-Man and Shaikh, {Mohd Farooq}",
note = "Funding Information: science researchers in a time of crisis. Future research projects supported by competitive research grants could be impacted due to the reduced possibility of hiring international students as Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers due to travel restrictions and economic concerns in many nations. There is a pressing need for concerned stakeholders, including government aided funding organizations, universities, private, non-profit, and humanitarian funding agencies, to collaborate in order to ascertain the sustainability of scientific research labs. Although research labs in most universities have opened under strict guidelines and limited capacity after mid-June 2020, there is limited advancement in basic research of COVID-19 unrelated subjects and always a fear of re-imposing the lock-down due to a second wave as recently experienced in China, S. Korea and Australia [10-12]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Bentham Science Publishers.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
doi = "10.2174/2666796701999201223161636",
language = "English",
volume = "2",
pages = "5--7",
journal = "Coronaviruses",
issn = "2666-7967",
publisher = "Bentham Science Publishers",
number = "8",
}