Sentences with phrase «biology research funded»

Contaminant biology research funded by the Environmental Health Program is slated for reductions, and the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program would see funding eliminated for radioactive waste disposal and municipal wastewater science.

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As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

This funding opportunity will underpin and rapidly develop a new research area across the interface of chemistry and biology at a vital stage of my career and provide a welcome platform for my future research.»

For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.

If their research interests include a health connection, faculty members in mathematical biology have more potential funding sources than other applied mathematicians, the key source being the Canadian Institutes of Health Researchresearch interests include a health connection, faculty members in mathematical biology have more potential funding sources than other applied mathematicians, the key source being the Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchResearch (CIHR).

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

DARPA itself has been one of the largest public funders of synthetic biology research in the U.S. in recent years, upping its spending on synthetic biology projects to more than $ 100 million in 2014 from nothing in 2010, according to one analysis.

«Based on published NSF research priorities for FY [fiscal year]» 09, funding for synthetic biology may increase in the future.»

EC may fund relevant research proposals and the U.S. Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and NSF all accept research and fellowship proposals with a synthetic - biology slant.

In 2006, the National Science Foundation established the first federally funded engineering research center (ERC) to advance the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Can a postdoc fellow from India apply for plant biology funds to support research here in the U.S.?

HepatoSys, with $ 13 million funding from the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) for the first 3 years and $ 24 million promised for the following three, is a nationwide German systems biology project.

The organization funds postdoctoral research that «promotes molecular biology studies in Europe,» and prefers that fellows move between member countries.

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

It's a standard practice of study sections to say, in effect, this proposal is submitted by a physicist, hence is not worthy of NIH funding, regardless of the importance to biology of the proposed research.

The new funding — part of the chancellor's autumn budget statement, a sort of half - year report on the U.K. economy — will be spent on big data and energy efficient computing, synthetic biology, energy storage, and advance materials, according to RCUK, the body that represents Britain's seven research councils.

Nicola G. A. Abrescia, group leader of structural biology at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias, CIC bioGUNE), is funded by Ikerbasque.

On the upside, in June Congress passed the Farm Bill, which for the first time provides funds for pollinator protection — up to $ 20 million per year for the next five years to support research into honeybee and native bee biology as well as into CCD's causes and remedies.

EMBL, meanwhile, has not stood still in defending its position among a pantheon of top European cell biology research centers, which includes the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London and the Marie Curie and Pasteur Institutes iresearch centers, which includes the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London and the Marie Curie and Pasteur Institutes iResearch Fund (ICRF) in London and the Marie Curie and Pasteur Institutes in Paris.

The agency has been «a real pioneer in federal funding of bioinformatics research,» says Michael Levitt, chair of computational structural biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine.

Should humpback whales be removed from the threatened species list, a direct consequence for conservation biology could be the redirection of research and management funding to enhance the survival of other species and ecosystems that are in greater risk of extinction.

In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.

The ERA - Net ERACoSysMed, collaboration on systems medicine funding to promote the implementation of systems biology approaches in clinical research and medical practice, started in January 2015 as the first ERA - Net on systems medicine under the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

This award recognizes Bob Rabson's steadfast advocacy for plant biology through the creation of funding programs in the Department of Energy for research in basic energy sciences.

That's important to students like Kelly Goode, a senior majoring in genetics and plant biology whose research experience is funded by PEP.

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) fund promising undergraduate students so they can conduct research in plant biology during the early part of their college Research Fellowships (SURF) fund promising undergraduate students so they can conduct research in plant biology during the early part of their college research in plant biology during the early part of their college careers.

This story and other Science News for Kids features describing research in medicine and biology are supported with funding from The Lasker Foundation.

See the Grants & Funding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and eduFunding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and edufunding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and education.

Doing so will allow science to play a more prominent role in the decision - making process in Congress and may result in increased funding for scientific research, improved regulations, and the implementation of other policies that benefit plant biology.

The Synthetic Biology Project found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, funded in large part by the Department of Energy.

To determine how valid the objection against funding of human embryonic stem cell research is because of its use of human embryos, it's important to understand two key aspects of hESCs» unique biology and derivation.

«This success in obtaining public research funding reflects our shared passion for UCSF's mission as a public institution to uncover the fundamental mechanisms underlying human biology and disease while working to transform health worldwide.»

Rick's current Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council started in 2013, and provided another five years of funding to explore the biology of cane toads.

NIH Awards $ 14.5 Million, Five - Year Grant to Scripps Research - The new NIH grant funds work at Scripps Research that will enable structural biology research on membrane proteins, an area of research that has enormous medical poResearch - The new NIH grant funds work at Scripps Research that will enable structural biology research on membrane proteins, an area of research that has enormous medical poResearch that will enable structural biology research on membrane proteins, an area of research that has enormous medical poresearch on membrane proteins, an area of research that has enormous medical poresearch that has enormous medical potential.

Since the, he has established a new research focus in regeneration and aging biology and medicine, recruited five full - time faculty, and raised more than $ 40 million in funding from private and governmental sources to support the Institution's research and educational programs.

This four - year project funded through the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) propose to revisit the processes involved in caries development by combining carefully chosen and highly complementary new analytical and molecular biology tools.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, with the Department of Energy funding a majority of the research.

With the help of federal funding, state support and private donations, the laboratory was transformed into a year - round research institution for the study of aging and regenerative biology.

Participants will include innovators and leaders in biology research and education and representatives of professional societies, funding agencies, and research and educational centers.

This joint venture, funded by the European Research Council, EPSRC and NPL's Strategic Research Programme, is a rare blend of interdisciplinary research bringing together expertise in robotics, haptics and machine vision with synthetic and cell biology, protein design, and super - and high - resolution micResearch Council, EPSRC and NPL's Strategic Research Programme, is a rare blend of interdisciplinary research bringing together expertise in robotics, haptics and machine vision with synthetic and cell biology, protein design, and super - and high - resolution micResearch Programme, is a rare blend of interdisciplinary research bringing together expertise in robotics, haptics and machine vision with synthetic and cell biology, protein design, and super - and high - resolution micresearch bringing together expertise in robotics, haptics and machine vision with synthetic and cell biology, protein design, and super - and high - resolution microscopy.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center finds the Defense Department and its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funds much of the U.S. government's research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk rResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) funds much of the U.S. government's research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk rresearch in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk researchresearch.

«After the SynBERC funding ends next year, it is unclear if there will be a dedicated synthetic biology research program outside of the Pentagon.

The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment by the international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and other fields, perfectly suited for funding by a public research agency.

Phil is also co-Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), whose vast store of data-most major journals and funding agencies now require scientists to submit relevant protein structure data to PDB - has become a key resource for the biology and genomics research communities.

Winn - funded research since the early 1990s has been the basis of many of the important discoveries about the natural biology and pathology of feline coronavirus.

Extramural funding of research in the college totals $ 7.3 million and focuses on veterinary biomedical sciences, cancer biology, diabetes, metabolic diseases, vaccine development, and infectious diseases.

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In their eyes, this single, unspecified piece of industry - funded research debunks three decades of research, research that (by whole - organism biology standards) was highly - funded throughout the 1990s.