Sentences with phrase «associate director of»

«Mapping the brain regions affected is also important for early detection and prevention,» said Paul Thompson director of the ENIGMA consortium and an associate director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.

As Huber Warner, associate director of the Biology of Aging Program at the NationalInstitute of Aging, says, «If we knew what regulates life span inturtles, that might be useful in figuring out how humans age and how tointervene.»

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

Shihua and Xiao - Jiang Li jointly run a lab at Emory, which collaborated with Liangxue Lai, PhD, associate director of the South China Institute of Stem Cells and Regeneration Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Park Je - Geun, Associate Director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and colleagues have observed, quantified and created a new theoretical model of the coupling of two forms of collective atomic excitation, known as magnons and phonons in crystals of the antiferromagnet manganite (Y, Lu) MnO3, a mineral made of manganese oxide and rare - earth elements called yttrium (Y) and lutetium (Lu).

Moral judgments follow the money,» was conducted by Peter DeScioli, an Assistant Professor in Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University and Associate Director of the Center for Behavioral Political Economy, and colleagues.

«To predict how climate change will impact the future, it's important to know what has happened in the past,» said Joshua Feinberg, a University of Minnesota associate professor of Earth Sciences and associate director of the Institute for Rock Magnetism, who supervised the research.

«For years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«We have known for a while some of the details as to how high temperatures hurt some symbiotic algae inside the coral, but how multiple stressors affect all three components of the holobiont and how such effects may interact across these players is a big question for the field,» said co-author Mark Warner, associate director of the Marine Bioscience Program at the University of Delaware.

The CGM adds years of life and years of quality life,» said Elbert Huang, MD, Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study.

«We studied soccer players because soccer is the world's most popular sport,» said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of Einstein's Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center and medical director of MRI services at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein.

«This is really a geotechnical monitoring success story,» says the new study's first author, Kris Pankow, associate director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and a research associate professor of geology and geophysics.

Dr. Michael Kilgard, associate director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) and Margaret Forde Jonsson Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, led the research team with Dr. Seth Hays, the TxBDC director of preclinical research and assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD» 17.

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.

«I'm looking at the relationship between seismicity and industry activity across different geographical areas,» said Cliff Frohlich, lead - author of the study and associate director of the Institute for Geophysics at University of Texas at Austin, who previously conducted similar studies, including one of the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, Texas.

Wittrup, an associate director of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and also a faculty member in the Department of Biological Engineering, is the senior author of a paper describing the work in the journal Cancer Cell.

According to Deborah Stine, associate director of COSEPUP, their goal was to compare results with the earlier survey and measure whether any change had occurred.

The briefings, organized by AAAS with support from the Dana Foundation, provide scientific evidence to lawmakers with the hope that it will help them find solutions to society's problems, said Erin Heath, associate director of the AAAS Office of Government Relations.

the home,» said co-lead author Emily McReynolds, associate director of the UW's Tech Policy Lab.

«In this study, we focused on the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, which has been shown by others to be related to error processing, and which we have shown to be associated with fatigue,» said Dr. Wylie, who is associate director of Neuroscience Research and the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation.

«The data speak to the difficulties of making the case for science in the politically polarized environment,» said Cary Funk, lead author and associate director of research at Pew Research Center.

«It's a natural insulating layer Mother Nature built into these artificially created materials,» said Joshua Robinson, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and associate director of the 2DLM Center.

Charles Groat, the associate director of the university's Energy Institute, coordinated the report while serving on the board of PXP, a company that uses fracking.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

They called the idea «a harebrained treatment out of Star Trek,» recalls Rizzo, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California and associate director of its Institute for Creative Technologies.

«We were confident all along that we would find a solvent that would be compatible with existing DNA nanotechnology,» added Hud, who is also director of the NSF - NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, both at Georgia Tech.

«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host disease, new approaches to make stem cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's.

Bee management specialists and veterinarians need to support bee keepers with information, tools, and resources to adapt to a swiftly growing production system,» said Dr. Kristine Smith, Wildlife Veterinarian and Associate Director of Health and Policy at EcoHealth Alliance.

His additional appointments include: head of the Swim Across America / Ludwig Collaborative Laboratory; associate director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy; and director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at MSK.

«We're planning to use these results as a basis for future studies to better understand how reducing these risk factors may possibly lower the frequency of memory complaints,» said author Fernando Torres - Gil, a professor at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and associate director of UCLA's Longevity Center.

She is the associate director of the Myers - Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech, where she has taught since 2007.

The state - funded facility came about because of feedback from biotech companies who wanted to avoid raiding each other's talent pools, explains Bill Welsh, BTEC's associate director of strategic support.

She has been working on the Dunedin data with Duke University professors Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt, who is the associate director of the New Zealand study.

Working together was critical to reaching that goal,» said study co-senior author Bronwyn MacInnis, associate director of malaria and viral genomics in the Broad's Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program.

A team led by John Mitchell, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and associate director of the laboratory's Materials Science Division, describe the compound's potential as a high - temperature superconductor in the June 12 issue of Nature Physics.

The technological challenges can be overcome, says Marilyn Smith, associate director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence at Georgia Institute of Technology.

In addition, «California has some of the most attractive urban areas on the planet,» says Elbert Branscomb, associate director of biosciences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Sperling is now associate director of Davis's new road ecology center.

«These findings will probably be surprising to many doctors and patients alike, as BMI is the current standard method to assess the risks for diseases related to body weight,» said Andrew Dannenberg, MD, associate director of Cancer Prevention at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine.

AAAS Associate Director of Government Relations Erin Heath said that the toolkit primarily consists of the organization's existing resources, gathered together as a «one - stop shop» for would - be advocates.

This nickel oxide compound does not superconduct, said John Mitchell, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and associate director of the laboratory's Materials Science Division, who led the project, which combined crystal growth, X-ray spectroscopy, and computational theory.

Morayma Reyes, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Hannele Ruohola - Baker, professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, headed the University of Washington team that made the discovery.

«One of the primary effects of ketamine in the brain is to block the NMDA [N - methyl - d - aspartate] glutamate receptor,» said James W. Murrough, MD, principal investigator of the study, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Associate Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Sherburne «Shere» Abbott, Nominee for Associate Director of Environment, Office of Science and Technology Policy

At the University of Washington, Hannele Ruohola - Baker, professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor and Henrik Sperber, graduate student, withdraw embryonic stem cell lines from liquid nitrogen storage.

«It appears that pregnant women infected with Zika can pass the virus to babies in utero and that newborns also may be susceptible to infection,» said Diamond, also an associate director of the university's Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs.

Neal Pellis, associate director of the Biological Sciences and Applications Office at the Johnson Space Center, suggests that buckyballs and other nanomolecules may have free radical — scavenging possibilities.

Environmental scientist Shere Abbott has been named by the White House to be associate director of environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — a position that requires Senate confirmation.

Lili Farhang, associate director of Human Impact Partners, said she supports efforts to bring HIAs into the spotlight.

I am the associate director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.