Sentences with phrase «as lead investigator»

As lead investigator in a research project funded by the National Science Foundation, Rolf Wigand, Ph.D., an endowed chair in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's CyberCollege, has spent part of the past five years gathering answers.

This she has done as lead investigator of 34 grants since 2010, as an author, mentor and collaborator.

She has published two research papers as the lead investigator and has been involved with numerous other research projects.

He served as lead investigator for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure under Chairman James L. Oberstar immediately before joining the FAA.

But Jake Gyllenhaal, as a lead investigator known only as Detective Loki, is an eerie loner - weirdo of a different kind.

Couple that with with Gyllenhaal as lead investigator, this is a far cry from Zodiac 2; but that may just be the trailer talking.

As the lead investigator for Plant Gravity Perception, botanist Chris Wolverton describes the investigation's central question: «We want to know - what's the least amount of gravity plants can detect to cause the falling of heavy [starchy] bodies in their cells?»

Dr. Timmerman, who holds the Effie Marie Cain Distinguished Chair in Cancer Therapy Research, has championed the use of SABR globally and has served as the lead investigator in several national trials designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of SABR to treat cancer in the lung, liver, spine, and prostate.

The hiring of Perry as lead investigator was an odd choice for a governor renowned for maintaining a tight, loyal circle of personnel.

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.

As the lead investigator said in a statement, «Countries that have been holding back on implementing medical circumcision programs due to a lack of evidence regarding risk compensation should have no concerns about scaling - up programs.»

As the leading investigator, Detective Constable Paul Constable, explained:

How the film features five women scientists as the lead investigators going into the Shimmer and how that's not the norm in a lot of big Hollywood movies.

A whole lot of my professional colleagues, Bill, make a bunch more money for being on pharma companies» «speakers» bureaus» and serving as lead investigators in proprietary Phase III and Phase IV clinical trials than they do by playing musical exam rooms and actually treating patients.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — John Dowd resigned on Thursday as President Trump's lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation as Mr. Trump signaled that he was prepared to ignore his advice and wanted a sit - down with investigators.

Not long after, federal investigators began searching a home near Parkland, as they continue to piece together what led a gunman to open fire at the high school three miles away.

Investigators may have compared a serial killer's DNA with that of one million unwitting genealogy enthusiasts as part of an investigation that led to the arrest earlier this week of a man accused of being California's elusive «Golden State Killer.»

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.

Because of the cumulative effect of these coercive techniques — the leading, the fact ‐ feeding, the false promises, the manipulation of Dassey's desire to please, the physical, fatherly assurances as [Calumet County Sheriff's investigator Mark] Wiegert touched Dassey's knee etc. — no reasonable court could have any confidence that this was a voluntary confession.

As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and biochemistry professor at Stanford, Pat led a team that developed the first methods for analyzing, visualizing and interpreting global gene expression programs.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

The footnote identified former Senate intelligence committee staff investigator Daniel J. Jones, head of the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), as leading the new anti-Trump campaign.

NEW YORK — Federal investigators have begun wiretapping a new set of potential targets as a result of the probe that led to the indictment off former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, DNAinfo has learned.

City investigators went as far as to recommend an independent integrity monitor to ensure NYCHA is performing lead paint and other inspections, according to a home health aide who frequently works with NYCHA tenants.

Soon after the News posted its story, Cuomo administration counsel Alphonso David announced in a statement the review of the economic development program would be led by Bart Schwartz, an independent investigator who had served as chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney's office.

«It's sort of like you are standing on a diving board as a medical student and you are right at the end and you are doing okay, but then something happens in your personal life and you just tip over,» says Liselotte Dyrbye, an internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and lead investigator of the study, which appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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.

«We used the science of energy as the starting point,» said George DeBoer, deputy director of Project 2061 and the grant's lead investigator.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

As head of the bioluminescence department at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Fort Pierce, Florida, Widder, 52, is the leading investigator of this mysterious light and the animals that display it.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

«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.

Until this trial came out we didn't know if it was going to be clinically better or not and now we know it is better,» said lead author Keipp Talbot, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, who served as coordinating investigator for the more than 100 study sites.

«Persistent VPC asthma was defined as having VPC asthma at both TENOR I and TENOR II enrollment visits; the comparison group had well or not well - controlled asthma at either visit,» said lead investigator Tmirah Haselkorn, PhD, of EpiMetrix in Los Altos, California.

«Beginning readers have to sound out words as they read, which makes reading a very long and laborious process,» says the study's lead investigator, Laurie Glezer, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow.

The project has been led by Dr. Antonio Fernández Anta, Research Professor at the Institute, as the Principal Investigator, and Dr. Nicolas Nicolaou, as the Marie - Curie Fellow.

However, in general, by feng shui lore, obstruction of Chi leads to disorder, which in turn leads to turmoil; and, as many investigators can attest, turmoil is just one small step behind experimental disaster.

«Our society deems essential oils as safe,» said study lead investigator J. Tyler Ramsey, a postbaccalaureate research fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.

«The treatment of multiple myeloma has improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of therapies such as proteasome inhibitors [which interfere with tumor cells» protein - disposal system] and potent immuno - modulatory agents,» said the paper's senior author and lead investigator, Paul Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research at Dana - Farber's Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

At NASA, a 6 - month period is typical for principal investigator — led spacecraft, such as the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, says James Green, the director of NASA's planetary science division in Washington, D.C.. However, Green says, NASA headquarters can insist that the principal investigator release data for key media events.

«Because the community is led (as it should be) by individuals who have succeeded in the status quo ante, investigators at early stages of their careers might judge (perhaps wrongly) that the best chances of success... will come from working within and for the system,» the series» authors concede.

«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.

Now, a team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) offers some early answers by studying an intriguing class of non-coding RNAs known as circular RNAs.

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.

«It's extraordinary; the cells just sit there as if in a state of suspended animation,» explains Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine and lead investigator.

In a randomized, phase 2 multi-center clinical study, led by Manisha Shah, MD of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James), investigators tested the effectiveness of the targeted therapy drug, dabrafenib (pronounced «da bRAF e nib» and marketed as Tafinlar), given alone compared with the same drug given in combination with trametinib (pronounced «tra ME ti nib,» marketed at MeKinist) to treat a subset of advanced papillary thyroid cancer patients with B - raf mutations.

«The Arctic Ocean is the first ocean where we see such a rapid and large - scale increase in acidification, at least twice as fast as that observed in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans,» said Cai, the U.S. lead principal investigator on the project and Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at UD.

«We challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.

«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.