Sentences with phrase «funding of young investigators»

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Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals and challenges of translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding and infrastructure support from the government, training young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers who can effectively communicate with each other, and finding ways to systematically implement translational research results into clinical practice.

Today, young investigators must utilize the usual R01 machinery to get funded — and that means that NIH has to make sure that the standard review process works well for this second tier of young investigators.

The scientific community has long considered single - investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding — but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for young investigators.

Last year, it announced the K99 / R00 Pathway to Independence (PI) award, a new mechanism designed to increase the share of federally - funded awards received by younger investigators and to create institutional incentives to help postdocs become independent investigators.

«If indeed funding gets tighter in the U.S., India might be more attractive, but it would be a great leap for the typical American postdoc to move to India,» observes Ronald Vale of the University of California, San Francisco who spent a 9 - month sabbatical at the NCBS in 2007 - 08 and co-organized the Young Investigator Meeting, now in its 6th year.

Under the terms of the award, she is free to spend the funds on anything she needs to conduct her research — including equipment, travel expenses, her own living expenses, and hiring her own Ph.D. students or postdocs — which is a huge deal, Reich says, because young investigators in Germany generally don't have the right to supervise people.

The process of acquiring funding in the biomedical sciences is different for young investigators now than it was for Johnson in the 1970s, partly because of changes in NIH policy.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on research.

Firstly, we fund scientific research in a truly global context in the form of grants for international collaborations between two to four labs in different countries (and with high priority given to teams on different continents), with both a special programme for Young Investigators and programme grants for scientists at any stage of their careers.

For example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Increase funding for two types of grants aimed at giving young investigators independent labs quickly: «kangaroo» (K99 / R00) grants that combine postdoctoral support with a research grant; and Early Independence Awards, which allow newly minted Ph.D. s to skip the postdoc and start their own lab.

The panel shared this concern: «The majority strongly questioned whether grants of this size are justified at a time when many investigators, particularly young investigators, are experiencing severe difficulty in obtaining and sustaining funding.»

Sponsors: This research was made possible by a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program, start - up funding from the University of Washington, as well as a capital equipment donation from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

We gratefully acknowledge funding sources including the Broad Next10 initiative, NIH LINCS Program grant 3U54 HG006093, NIH BD2K Program grant 5U01HG008699, NIH training grant T32 CA009172, NIH / Harvard Catalyst training award KL2 TR001100, and Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Young Investigator Award.

First, NSF funds the core scientific research of individual investigators; NSF presently has more than 40 active awards to individual investigators and small teams pursuing exoplanet research, including highly competitive awards to young scientists in the ascending stages of their careers.

LMM is also funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Alzheimer Society of Canada (2013 — 2016).

The Ronald B. and Cynthia J. McNeill Fund for Cancer Research will provide some of the vital funds for young investigators to collect initial data and position them to be more competitive in the quest for larger government and foundation grants.

However, the dearth of current federal funding and the difficulty to secure and maintain such funding pose the biggest hurdles for the transition of young scientists to stable, independent investigator positions.

Funding / Support: Dr Young and Ms Hade were supported by a cancer center support grant (P30CA16058, Dr Michael Caligiuri, principal investigator) from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, to The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award is funded by The Gruber Foundation, and is administered by a joint committee appointed by the Genetics Society of America and the American Society of Human Genetics.

Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, Burroughs Wellcome Fund ICAAC Young Investigator Award, American Society for Microbiology New Intiatives in Global Infectious Disease, Ellison Medical Foundation Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Surhain Sidhu Award for outstanding contributions to the field of diffraction

The focus of the program was to (quote) identify highly promising young investigators who are underfunded at present, and to fund them to do research that could be then used to argue that the scientific evidence was uncertain.

Funding / Support: Dr Boynton - Jarrett was supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, the Boston University Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health, grant K12 HD043444 from the Office of Research on Women's Health, and the Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award.

Source of funding: in part, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award to Wilson McDermut.

In addition, several investigator - initiated research projects were funded to support applied research relating to home visiting services that show promise of advancing knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness to improve life outcomes among mothers, infants, and young children.9 This issue includes more details on this home visiting research network in the article by Anne Duggin and colleagues, «Creating a National Home Visiting Research Network.»

Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother - infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and another investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social - emotional functioning in infants and young children.

Funding was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH091363 and MH107129), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) Young Investigator Award 23819.