Sentences with phrase «also lead investigator»

Historically, Dr. Wyatt has provided counseling and talk - therapy in not - for - profit organizations, taught at regional and comprehensive universities in Oklahoma, has written and administered grants and served as an assistant professor of research at the University of Oklahoma, College of Public Health, where she was also a lead investigator on the HEART of OKC Teen Pregnancy Project and co-principal investigator for the High Risk HPV project, both funded through the Centers for Disease Control («CDC»).

He is the also the lead investigator for the Permafrost Carbon Network, an international consortium of researchers aimed at synthesizing new knowledge on this topic.

Dr. Hornig is also a lead investigator for the Autism Birth Cohort, a prospective birth cohort study in Norway that is identifying how genes and maturational factors interact with environmental agents to lead to autism.

«We are pleased with the results of this first - of - its - kind study,» adds Dr. Heere, who was also lead investigator.

Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator for NASA's long - lived Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected for flight).

«We are pleased with the results of this first - of - its - kind study,» adds Dr. Heere, who was also lead investigator.

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Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.

As lead investigator, Detective Sgt. Coffman and a task force also arrested a burglar who confessed to 150 burglaries in the northwest Chicago area, said Park Ridge Deputy Police Chief Larry Herzog.

An unambiguous trail led to Clive Goodman, the News of the World reporter who covered the royal family, and to a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, who also worked for the paper.

Ms. Olatoye said that no one told her at the time that investigators had also contacted the health department with questions that focused on lead paint.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dr. Olivier Elemento from Weill Cornell Medical Center is the study's co-senior investigator, and Dr. Katerina Hatzi, also from Cornell Weill, is the lead investigator.

Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission's science observation planning and data processing.

Meteorites are also easier to locate in Antarctica partly because of the contrast between dark rocks and white ice sheet, says Ralph Harvey, principal investigator of the U.S. - led Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program.

«Our findings show that a specific genetic marker (known as allele * 2 of the HS1, 2 A enhancer region) influences not just disease activity in RA patients, but also response to therapy in the early stages of their disease,» said lead investigator Dr Gabriele Di Sante of the Institute of Rheumatology and Related Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

During a «Shark Tank» - style pitch presentation and feedback session on the first day of the colloquium, Cloyd presented the project along with lead investigator Elizabeth Suhay of American University and research associate Erin Nash of Durham University in the U.K. Erin Heath, associate director of the AAAS Office of Government Relations, is also leading the project and the team includes two graduate student researchers.

If the stress factors remain, it can also lead a weakened immune system,» says Tomas Faresjö, professor of medical sociology and chief investigator for the study.

«Our study suggests that although you need to have some level of IgE to trigger a food allergy response, you also have to produce MMC9 cells to get a severe response and anaphylaxis,» says Yui - Hsi Wang, PhD, lead investigator and a researcher in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's.

Principal investigator for the study and a professor at UNICAMP's Medical School (FCM - UNICAMP), José Dirceu Ribeiro recalls that bronchiolitis is the most common disease during the first year of life, and also the leading cause of hospitalization during this period of infancy worldwide.

«Electronic bullying is a very real yet silent danger that may be traumatizing children and teens without parental knowledge and has the potential to lead to devastating consequences,» said principal investigator Karen Ginsburg, also at Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

IMB Senior Principal Investigator Dr Bruno Reversade, one of the study's authors, who also led the discovery of Elabela two years ago, stated, «I am very pleased that we have further uncovered a critical role of Elabela in the establishment of the circulatory system, following its discovery as a hormone essential for heart development in 2013.

«In general, using a prosthesis is an unnatural act that requires training, extra effort and can have a certain amount of awkwardness to it,» explains Douglas P. Murphy, MD; from Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center who is also an associate professor of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead investigator (along with Ou Bai PhD from Florida International University) in a recent study that sought to establish the feasibility of manipulating a prosthetic knee with BCI.

Trauma, such as burns, are also a leading cause of corneal scarring, said senior investigator James L. Funderburgh, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology at Pitt and associate director of the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, a joint program of UPMC Eye Center and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Several clues, like the fact that many of the cortical auditory regions responsible for linguistic and musical processing are the same and the existence of auditory illusions dependent on the mother tongue or dialect, have led investigators to hypothesize that native listening transfers also to non-linguistic sound stimuli such as music.

Dr. John D. Scott, professor and chair of pharmacology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, along with Dr. F. Donelson Smith of the UW and HHMI, led this study, which also involved Drs. Claire and Patrick Eyers and their group at the University of Liverpool.

Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has discovered that mitochondria, the metabolic energy sources essential to the health of kidneys and other organs, also play a key role in kidney injury.

A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators suggests that bariatric surgery can significantly reduce the risk of asthma attacks — also called exacerbations — in obese patients with asthma.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

The team was led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor and HHMI Investigator Gregory Hannon, also a Professor and Senior Group Leader at the CRUK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge, and CSHL Associate Professor Michael Schatz.

The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).

An analysis led by a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators shows that achieving the treatment targets of the National HIV / AIDS Strategy (NHAS) by 2020 not only would prevent hundreds of thousands of new infections and deaths but also would demonstrate excellent value.

«The results of the trial suggest that resiquimod is safely and effectively absorbed into the skin, and beyond diminishing treated lesions, also enhances the immune response, leading to healing of even untreated lesions,» first author and principal investigator Rook, said..

Given that the investigators have previously shown the influence of the host molecular clock on the gut microbiota, they will also ask if taking this NSAID at different times of day might lead to higher efficacy and less side effects in animal models and eventually in humans.

«For the first time, we were able to demonstrate, in surgically resected metastases, that treatment with bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy before metastasectomy also changes the clinical significance of the growth factors as potential biomarkers,» explains Stefan Stremitzer, one of the lead investigators from MedUni Vienna's Department of Surgery.

He is also the founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, the largest consortium in the history of psychiatry.

This investigator - initiated phase II trial, called TOPARP - A, was led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and also involved several other institutions in the UK.

In their research in mice, described in the journal Nature online Oct. 21, the investigators showed that TRN neurons, which have been previously implicated in the dampening of brain signals in people, were also less active when the mice were led to focus on — and respond to — a visual flash of light to get a milk reward.

The work has led to a whole new way of doing genetic studies, said Krasnow, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The Cancer Institute's Associate Director for Education and Training Edmund Lattime, PhD, who is also a professor of surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Elizabeth Poplin, MD, co-director of the Cancer Institute's Gastrointestinal / Hepatobiliary Program and a professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are the lead investigators of the study.

Patients with a lower level of education were also less likely to understand the concepts pre - and post-visit but did show benefit from the counseling sessions, leading investigators to recommend exploring strategies to enhance the teaching tools used for people with the lowest education levels.

In the same issue of The American Journal of Pathology, another team of investigators from the University of Kansas Medical Center, led by Dr. Wen - Xing Ding, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, also report that FOXO3 protects against acute ethanol - induced steatosis and liver injury.

Research jointly conducted by investigators at Institut Gustave Roussy, Inserm, Institut Pasteur and INRA (French National Agronomic Research Institute) has led to a rather surprising discovery on the manner in which cancer chemotherapy treatments act more effectively with the help of the intestinal flora (also known as the intestinal microbiota).

«Results from the ADAPT - DES registry definitely demonstrate that high platelet reactivity after implantation of drug - eluting stents is an independent predictor of one - year stent thrombosis and heart attack, but it is also protective against major bleeding, both of which impact mortality,» said lead investigator Gregg W. Stone, MD..

«Chronic inflammatory diseases last for months and years, so you have to have a medicine that can be used for treating inflammation for the long term without having side effects,» said Dr. Jian - Dong Li, a lead investigator of the study and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State and also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

In addition, the study, led by investigators in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, revealed four novel tumor subtypes, while also identifying genomic similarities between endometrial and other cancer types, including breast, ovarian, and colorectal cancers.

An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

Prof. Dawkins is leading the Australian efforts in the development of a National Plan for Rare Disease, in concert with this policy position he is also coordinating the Australian partnership in a European Commission Framework Program 7 applications, RD - CONNECT and concerted action project RARE - BestPractice and a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Australian European coordination grants.

«Not only have we shown that we can reprogram skin cells, but we have also demonstrated that these reprogrammed cells can be differentiated into insulin - producing cells which hold great therapeutic potential for diabetes,» said study lead author Yi Zhang, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC and member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.