Sentences with phrase «institute of medical research»

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This dedication to exceptional pediatric medical care also inspires and drives our research: our institutes, centers and divisions continuously explore and develop new and advanced diagnostics, therapies and methods that touch people in every stage of their lives.

Saint: Institute of Medicine In December the institute recommended that the United States severely curtail its use of chimpanzees, man's closest relative, in medical research.

Each of the health care bills under consideration as we went to press creates a government - supported institute to oversee research comparing the effectiveness of existing medical treatments and practices.

Undergraduates interested in a biomaterials career should consider «spending a summer doing a medical internship, or spending some time in... a research and development environment of a company or in a government institute,» Peppas says.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The majority of the job opportunities at the intersection of social science and translational research are within academia — medical schools or schools of public health or social work — but job opportunities also exist at government agencies and private foundations and research institutes, Palinkas says.

He gestures toward a broad expanse of office wall, decorated with framed covers of medical journals that have given top billing to results published by the institute's research teams.

So, on top of performing 250 surgeries a year, directing the work of five research teams, administering the institute and fund - raising for it, on top of a demanding speaking schedule and active service on many medical boards, on top of preserving Sundays as family days often spent sailing with his wife, Carol, a urologist at UCLA, their son, Keith Quinten, 13, and daughter, Teal, 16, Black has become a biotech entrepreneur.

The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.

A search of the CRISP database of NIH - funded research projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two prresearch projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two prResearch Resources (two projects).

Other research institutes have even offered to send copies of genetically engineered mice originally created at the medical center.

Obviously concerned at Andy Coghlan's article on the possible privatisation of Britain's research institutes (This Week, 22 January), Waldegrave wrote to me saying that he had had the pleasure of visiting the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on more than one occasion, and was most impressed with what he hresearch institutes (This Week, 22 January), Waldegrave wrote to me saying that he had had the pleasure of visiting the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on more than one occasion, and was most impressed with what he hResearch Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on more than one occasion, and was most impressed with what he had seen.

This research involved cooperation by many institutions, including the Institute of Biophysics (IBP), the Institute of Zoology, the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and other institutes.

Several other components would be disbursed among the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (such as disease model resources), NIH's imaging institute, and its institute for minority health research.

Raker believes that CRG will be equivalent to other top institutes she has seen, such as EMBL or the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Joint DMS / NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)-- part of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences — and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)-- an NIH institute — seek proposals that «identify innovative mathematics or statistics needed to solve an important biological problem.»

The Roadmap is a series of initiatives designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but which the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the Knockout Mouse Project are: the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination / Common Fund; NCRR; the National Eye Institute; NHGRI; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NIDCD; the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Cancer Institute; and the Office of AIDS Research.

The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the contracts are: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Research Resources, National Eye Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Office of AIDS Research.

By saying «Count Me In» you will partner with leading research institutes, hospitals, and patient advocacy groups by sharing part of your stored tumor tissue and copies of your medical records.

Housed squarely in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, Bass believed the institute would be ideally poised to leverage the incredible depth of expertise and cutting - edge research that exists in Houston.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation's premier medical research agency, comprising 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but that the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

In helping to guide implementation of the new strategic plan, Dr. Guyer will work to balance the institute's ongoing commitment to basic genomic research, including developing new technologies for sequencing and analyzing genomes, with NHGRI's commitment to expanding the use of genomic knowledge in medical care.

Prior to this, he was involved in the development of Strand NGS, a tool for the analysis and management of NGS data, used by many researchers across the world in various universities and medical research institutes.

Daniel MacArthur, co-director of the Broad's Program in Medical and Population Genetics, and Heidi Rehm, Clinical Director of the Broad's Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, are the principal investigators of the institute's Center for Mendelian Genomics.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Sekar Kathiresan, a physician - scientist and a human geneticist, is the director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), an Ofer and Shelley Nemirovsky MGH Research Scholar, the director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad institute, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Vicki P. Losick, Ph.D., of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has been recognized as an «outstanding investigator» by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for her research on wound healing.

Xiao Pei - Gen, as it turned out, was Director of the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development in Beijing, a major research institute belonging to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

The institute has excellent facilities and teams of professionals dedicated to the development of innovative biomedical devices and products, evaluation of medical devices to global specifications, training in novel medical specialties and research in medical and public health areas of social relevance.

«From the Bureau of Meteorology to NASA, the NCI supports more than 4000 researchers involved in nearly 500 projects, spanning 35 Australian universities, science agencies and medical research institutes as well as researchers overseas,» Ms Cash said.

We work with many of Canada's top medical and agricultural biotechnology companies, research institutes and universities.

Represent a Sun City, Arizona - based medical research institute concerning (i) research collaboration agreements; (ii) patent prosecution (applications) involving new compounds, methods of treatment of disease, as well as diagnostics; (iii) corporate and commercial matters, including its corporate formation, its 501 (c)(3) tax - exempt status, ongoing corporate governance, and other tax matters

Seeking to fill Looking for the challenging position of a nuclear medical technician in a reputed company or a research institute and thereby utilize my rich experience and extensive knowledge for the benefit of society while attaining self growth.

Science, research and development are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the economy of the city thanks to 1,340 million Euros of public funding, 25 research institutes and medical schools and 23 National Health Service hospitals, and allowing many executive jobs in London with leading healthcare and life sciences firms to be filled in London.

My expertise include prior nuclear medicine training (All India institute of medical Sciences, India), and post-doctoral research training in neuro imaging (Positron Emi...

As I noted in the Social Justice Report 2006, there is also still much to be gained through partnerships between organisations that deal with questions of human rights as part of their daily business, whether those be Indigenous organisations, research institutes and universities, Indigenous legal and medical services and the broader non-government sector.