Sentences with phrase «university for young investigators»

The American Cancer Society (ACS)- Institutional Research Grant (IRG) is the major source of support at Vanderbilt University for young investigators building cancer research programs.

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He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, corecipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and former Presidential Young Investigator.

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

«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.

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual research grants.»

«Children or young adults may not be aware of having abnormal coronary vessels because their circulation is adequate until the heart is stressed by increased demands, for instance when participating in strenuous sports,» explains Lien, who is also an assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine and an investigator at the Cardiovascular Thoracic Institute, both at the University of Southern California.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

But another possible reason few people speak out is that young scientists are very busy, generally impecunious, and bereft of organizations to defend their economic interests, which are different from those of the universities and senior investigators who dominate the organizations that speak for science.

Professor Crandall has received a number of awards for research and teaching, including the American Naturalist Society Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a PhRMA Foundation Faculty Development Award in Bioinformatics, Honors Professor of the Year award at Brigham Young University, ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award.

The expansion of the Board also includes the establishment of two Young Investigator Advisors, Christine Beattie, PhD, associate professor of Neuroscience at the Ohio State University Center for Molecular Neurobiology and Charlotte Sumner, MD, clinical fellow in Neurogenetics at the NINDS.

Peter Youngs, associate professor of educational policy at Michigan State University and lead investigator on the study, said the findings reinforce the need for principals to serve as strong, supportive leaders in their schools.