Sentences with phrase «chainstone labs chief»

NEW YORK, April 18 - A start - up launched by three Princeton University graduates for a new cryptocurrency has raised $ 133 million from a slew of big investors in a private placement, Intangible Labs Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Nader Al - Naji said on Wednesday.

A set of what economists call «perverse incentives» encourages lab chiefs and institutions to take on more trainees in good times and submit more grant proposals in bad ones.

The smokers banter about a lab chief who breathes down the necks of his assistants so closely that working for him is barely tolerable.

In that case, the lab chief, chemist Patrick Harran, and UC faced criminal charges for safety violations related to the fire.

That is true, no doubt, from the perspective of those who have long benefited from the sacrifices of graduate students and postdocs — among them administrators, policymakers, and well - funded lab chiefs.

Mentoring and PI Productivity 7 November 2003 Both the quantity of publications produced and the quality of mentoring provided — especially to postdocs — should count in the evaluation of a lab chief's suitability for future funding.

What happens to the lab chiefs who hired them?

Although many lab chiefs are humane and generous mentors, and most are at least fair and reasonable, some, as anguished tales make plain, comport themselves as workplace tyrants whose workers fear that they would jeopardize their professional futures — and often their right to remain in the United States — by asserting their workplace rights.

It also left unanswered a key legal question: Are lab chiefs (along with universities) responsible for fatal safety violations?

Major challenges include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an investment of scarce grant dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.

Both the quantity of publications produced and the quality of mentoring provided — especially to postdocs — should count in the evaluation of a lab chief's suitability for future funding

One means of accomplishing that would be to include lab chiefs» safety records among the materials submitted in grant proposals (and weighed in funding decisions), alongside currently required materials such as human subjects and vertebrate - care documentation.

That's certainly the outcome that another experienced observer, an NIH intramural lab chief we'll call Beth S. Dadoc, expects to see.

His former lab chief «used his powerful position to impose his will and cover up some exciting results of mine, which could have moved the field of cancer research forward.»

Among the favored researchers will be several dozen just a few years beyond their Ph.D. s. Most will have traditional — although well - paid — postdoc appointments under eminent or soon - to - be-eminent lab chiefs.

An investigation has found a UConn lab chief guilty of falsifying data.

As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.

After her lab chief and mentor and the university filed for a patent on uses of the gene, she demanded to be named as an inventor and eventually sued the University of Chicago, the chief, and two spin - off corporations, seeking due credit and a share of profits.

«It's very important that all mentors or lab chiefs make sure that everybody is keeping the lab notebook according to the data retention standards of their institution, and that they're looking at raw data at regular intervals.»

But if becoming a tenure - track lab chief is indeed the purpose of postdoctoral training — that's the T32 program's traditional mission — the odds of success are low indeed.

Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a «culture of safety» akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices.

Still others left the decision to departments or individual lab chiefs.

Many university labs operate as quasi-independent «fiefdoms,» according to the report; lab chiefs have great authority to observe or ignore safety standards and often see outside safety checks as «infringing upon their academic freedom.»

Because the settlement allowed Harran to avoid criminal penalties, the landmark case that many had hoped would set a new standard for accountability in labs across the country ended without settling the legal question of whether the lab chief has personal responsibility for the safety of students and workers.

«It's always helpful to look at smaller and smaller things,» said Hari Shroff, Ph.D., at NIH's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) lab chief of NIBIB's section on High Resolution Optical Imaging (HROI.)

Not all lab chiefs feel that way, however.

Lab chiefs who have never worked outside of academe generally lack the information, contacts, and inclination to help their postdocs enter the many fields that, unlike university research, offer good opportunities.

Often, lab chiefs can be less than enthusiastic about their postdocs shifting focus away from the ever - important research project.

In the higher administrative positions the numbers further tapered off, with only 6 percent holding lab chief positions.

In decades gone by, Brenner continues, young scientists were not bound to a lab chief's projects but had a level of independence that allowed them to «have their own ideas and... pursue them.»

Because labs are «semiautonomous groups within the university,» Tanyildiz writes in her paper, lab chiefs generally exercise considerable independence in staffing them.

Today's funding situation — «the worst I've seen in over 30 years,» Gerbi says — further aggravates the situation, causing lab chiefs to lay off staff and some labs to close.

That said, «there seems to be a coherent plan,» a lab chief said.

On the other hand, some lab chiefs may hire more graduate students and fewer postdocs because new grad students usually bring a training grant with them and so are cheaper, says Yale University neuroscientist Daniel Colon - Ramos.

Given the requirements of the NSF grant process and today's tight funding, it is possible that lab chiefs desperate for an edge in the grants competition could turn postdoc services into a new arena in which to try to outshine rivals.

It's the nation's third postdoc union, but the first to be part of the same union as their lab chiefs.

However, in April, Nest Labs chief executive Tony Fadell wrote in a blog post that it has found in regular testing that the smoke detector could misconstrue other gestures as a hand wave and potentially turn off the alarm in the event of a real fire or carbon monoxide events.

Not exact matches

Momo Vuyisich, the company's chief scientist, led the team that developed the technology at Los Alamos Lab, which co-owns the technology along with the startup.

Three years later, cofounder and chief product officer Jeff Chapin leads a team of 35 people at Casper's new research and development lab in San Francisco.

And although he fell, his skills, experience and know - how unarguably continue to exist,» says Andrew Lee, cofounder, chairman and chief of lab division at London Trust Media.

Will Canine, chief product officer at Opentrons, told Business Insider said about 75 % of Opentrons customers hadn't had a lab robot before their Opentrons machine.

Anything,» said Chris Boshuizen, co-founder and chief technology officer at Planet Labs.

Also, while Planet Labs can beat older competitors on price, those expensive features do matter, said David Friedberg, chief executive of Climate, an agricultural data analysis firm owned by Monsanto.

The creator of mobile gaming phenomenon Pokemon Go is exploring more sponsorships by companies that want to attract character - hunting players to their businesses, the chief executive of developer Niantic Labs said on Tuesday.

We talked to Martin Fink, HP's chief technology officer and the director of HP Labs, about how the company went about building the Machine as well as the 75 - year - old company's approach to innovation.

Hunt, who is originally from the U.K., and Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings first met at the Schlumberger research lab in Palo Alto back in 1985.

Check out our video where New Lab's chief innovation officer Mari Kussman explain how the risk paid off.

HP executive Andrew Bolwell will lead the new investment arm, which will report to Shane Wall, HP's chief technology officer and head of the company's research arm, HP Labs.

On Tuesday, Uber appointed him as its new chief scientist overseeing its Uber A.I. Labs, its new research arm dedicated to A.I. and machine learning.

Andy Yang, the «chief innovation hunter» of Extreme Startups, an accelerator lab in Toronto, argues that FreshBooks is a perfect example of what's achievable for tech startups in this country.