Sentences with phrase «biomedical research environment»

The purpose of this exposure to a biomedical research environment is to encourage students to consider careers in science and medicine.

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, Bill Gates discussed the challenges of research on diseases common in developing countries in a market - driven biomedical research environment.

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In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

Sunday's vote ended an energetic campaign by Swiss biologists to convince the public that transgenic laboratory animals are essential to biomedical research, and that genetic engineering can provide benefits without posing a serious threat to the environment.

«I am building up a team of physicists but in a biomedical research unit, so I will be in a perfect environment to develop projects at the interface between physics and biology.»

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.

As noted in the study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»

By Jennifer Nguyen The biomedical research enterprise has been dealing with a tight funding environment for over a decade, and universities have struggled to adjust their finances accordingly.

The Hollings Cancer Center is embedded in MUSC's active and growing biomedical academic environment with state - of - the - art research facilities.

We promote and enhance biomedical and biological research, including the humane care and use of animals, for the improved health and well - being of people, animals, and the environment.

The current funding environment has raised serious concerns about the long - term viability of the biomedical research enterprise, as securing NIH grants has become increasingly difficult for scientists early in their careers.

TRTH participants include medical, biomedical and pharmaceutical doctorate trainees who work in a hematology - related research environment as junior faculty or program leaders and have completed their fellowship training within the past three years.

SF BUILD's mission is to enhance diversity of the biomedical research workforce by transforming the teaching and research environments at SF State.

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»

SciLifeLab and the host universities want to support young researchers and further strengthen the research environment at SciLifeLab and are therefore now advertising eight career positions for research leaders, two at each of the universities, in the fields of microbial bioenergy production, applied physics, biomedical sciences, ecological genomics, RNA biology, molecular medicine and molecular biosciences.

Only in the last decade, when multiple spacefaring nations and corporate entities have announced plans to embark on manned exploratory missions to Mars and prolonged habitation on the Moon, has biomedical research been directed towards identifying possible CVD risks associated with the deep space radiation environment.

Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States welcome a decision by India's Ministry of Environment and Forests to require the use of modern, non-animal tools in place of dissections and live animal experiments for biomedical education and research, with the exception of new molecular research.