infinitive

it is an infinitive clause acting as a purpose clause; it does not modify anything.

Hi,

A couple of small extra comments.

works, not work.

It's not a well-written sentence. I'd suggest He leads a team of seven scientists who have been given a research grant to study cloning an animal like the panda.

There are probably good arguments for each interpretation. I incline slightly toward the adjectival reading. I don't think the grant givers are interested in finding out anything about cloning -- not directly, anyway. Therefore, it's hard to think of have been given ... why? ... to find out ..., whereas it's comparatively easy (for me, anyway) to think of research (which is design

I do not like to see the infinitive phrase being called as a modifier.

However, if I had to follow that way of thinking, I would say, in

'He leads a team of seven scientists who have been given a grant to conduct research to find out if cloning an animal like the panda work.', to find out mo