What do you tell your students interested in
basic research working in the current climate?
Fish parasitologist, Dr. Rubio Godoy, one of the few specialists in the country aside from doing
basic research works directly with mojarra - tilapia producers to identify harmful microorganisms and develop ways to prevent disease in the species.
Many of our neurologists are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health for
their basic research work on various neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and peripheral neuropathy.
And, at the same time, support (with taxpayer funding)
some basic research work hopefully leading to an economically competitive and environmentally acceptable alternate to fossil fuels, in order to accelerate this process.
A meticulous individual who effectively handles travel arrangements, manages calendars and performs
basic research work.
Much
basic research work is left to be done, particularly in examining how the components of EC work together.
Not exact matches
«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs, but their
work will rely on the kind of
basic research that only governments can fund,» Gates said in a statement.
Thus the two
basic axes of interaction analysis are the resistance / warmth pole and the power / acquiescence pole.18 Gregory had an uncanny intuitive sense of how interactions
work along these two axes, even though the empirical
research on them came fourteen centuries later.
I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical
research (medical
research on monkeys and mice only
works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and
basic body architecture is identical to theirs).
It has been nurtured in many ways: by
research into
basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the
work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this
research and reflection.
There are several industry collaborations that are
working to identify technologies to make collection and sortation of flexible packaging waste feasible and economically effective, as well as
research into chemical recycling, which degrades the mixed plastics into monomers or
basic chemicals to turn into new products.
In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many
basic elements of traditional American pedagogy
work in direct opposition to what the psychological
research tells us will help those children succeed.
Before I began Baby
Basics, in depth
research went into assessing community support for
working poor families.
Our longstanding dedication to
working with industry and investors is reinforced by the creation and continual advancement of infrastructure, technologies and policies that fully support
basic and clinical
research — and its translation into commercially viable products and services in health care.
If it wasn't enough that, as his
research assistant, I was having to daily talk him through attaching files to emails, finding an internet page, the joys of Twitter and the benefits of blogging, I am now doing three times more
work than the entire parliamentary IT unit by answering his
basic and annoying questions about gadgets.
The Master of Theology (MTh) is a postgraduate
research programme designed for those who wish to do higher theological
work beyond the
basic degree of BTh or MDiv.
And, by showing how animal studies can help us understand when and why our own weapons
work — or don't
work — as deterrents, it drove home the importance of
basic research.
► «Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier
research agency to cut jobs and eliminate
work in certain fields, including
basic climate science,» Leigh Dayton wrote this morning at ScienceInsider.
Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier
research agency to cut jobs and eliminate
work in certain fields, including
basic climate science.
Zadeh's
work was among three bodies of
research honored with a 2017 Golden Goose Award, which recognizes federally funded
basic research that has had unexpected and significant societal impact even if the original
research sounded obscure.
At Swansea he can concentrate on
basic research, while others
working alongside him can develop applications.
I spent the next decade completing rigorous
basic science
research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my
work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.
In 2008, he took a staff position in the bioinformatics department at Gladstone, where he now leads a team of biologists - turned - programmers and programmers - turned - biologists
working to build free, open - source software tools for
basic biomedical
research.
«We want to encourage cross-disciplinary training,» she adds, giving as an example a student who is
working on ethics and on
basic research.
The Laboratory is managed by Princeton University for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, which is the largest single supporter of
basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is
working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
The efficient movement of
basic science discoveries into clinical applications — often described as «bench to bedside»
work — is the goal of translational
research.
Of approximately 300 staff at the Center for Therapeutic
Research, only nine postdocs and students are conducting basic research; the rest work in drug discovery and deve
Research, only nine postdocs and students are conducting
basic research; the rest work in drug discovery and deve
research; the rest
work in drug discovery and development.
I also look into setting up relationships with large science organizations such as the European Space Agency, the Particle Physics and Astronomy
Research Council, and the Science Museum, so that we can share content at the most
basic level or
work together on larger projects.
Whereas some companies a decade ago may have only lent their might to academic
research that was likely to result in a relatively quick return, we now find them pitching in on higher quality, more
basic research projects that are not necessarily in line with their core
work but still on their radar.
It is not rare to find first - year graduate students raking through the library helplessly trying to find for themselves all the
basic information they need just to get started on their
research work.
That our
research group has been able to demonstrate such an important and
basic physiological role of AMPK in muscles is fantastic, and a reward after many years of effort,» according to Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski, who had overall responsibility for the group's
work.
«The
basic research nature of my
work made it possible to publish without infringing on any other
work, such as the development of [therapeutic] molecules.»
«The nice thing about
working for big pharma is that they can allocate resources for doing
basic research,» says Gervais, now a
research scientist at the company.
At Mayo, some immunologists
work on
basic research and others lean more toward the clinical applications of immunotherapy.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of
basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is
working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Gaab's interest in
working at the intersection of
basic, clinical, and education
research was piqued when she was doing her doctoral
work in neuroscience, studying how auditory or musical training affects the brain.
This
work is
basic research, but possible future applications could include rehabilitation following a stroke, which often affects a patient's movements.
And because most of the
work is applied in nature, there is limited funding for more
basic research.
Apart from the skills needed for
basic work — mathematics, objectivity, ineptitude at contact sports — scientists have long had to write and edit scientific journal articles and present
research at conferences.
Successful public - private partnerships
work at the interface of
basic and applied
research, he says, with enough room for both types of science.
The vast majority of respondents are scientists
working in areas of
basic or applied
research and development (see Survey Demographics box).
We need the two elements of
research —
basic and translational — to
work tightly together.
Since the simple design of Hydra has great
basic and translational relevance and promises to reveal new and unexpected
basic features of nervous systems, further
research into the interaction between body and bacteria will therefore concentrate more on the neuronal aspects,» said Bosch, to summarise the significance of the
work.
«It will certainly stimulate further
work, both in
basic research and real - life applications of molecular electronics and miniaturized devices.
Brad Spellberg's
research interests are diverse, ranging from
basic immunology and vaccinology, to pure clinical and outcomes
research, to process improvement
work related to delivery of care, focusing on safety net hospitals.
Another Lasker award, which honors
basic research, will go to Stephen Elledge and Evelyn Witkin for their
work unraveling the fundamentals of how the body detects and corrects for DNA damage.
But it was Pert's supervisor, Solomon Snyder, who in 1978 shared the prestigious Albert Lasker
Basic Medical
Research Award with two scientists
working in Scotland, Hans Kosterlitz and John Hughes, the first to isolate the enkephalins, natural chemicals that bind to the opiate receptors.
Between his Ph.D. and his postdoc in Lund, Sweden, he
worked as a staff scientist at Novozymes, and says his
work there became a major focus of his
basic research at Aarhus University.
The scientists who have contributed to this issue are
working on
basic research into the cellular, molecular, and behavioral changes associated with running.
«This
work is an example of how integrating
basic science and clinical care may reveal privileged opportunities for biomedical
research,» said Matthew O. Hebb, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, a researcher involved in the
work from the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences (Neurosurgery), Oncology and Otolaryngology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada.