Sentences with phrase «bring in research funding»

Meanwhile, it's sad to see the University of Victoria promoting global - warming scare stories that have no foundation in fact simply because these scares bring in research funding.

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Clearly, there's still room for improvement, and the evening's fundraiser brought in close to $ 1 million in funds for research and other initiatives.
Some of Trump's proposals would slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by $ 1.23 billion, Bloomberg reports, and could bring research spending levels back to their level in 2000.
InVivo paid for a year of Pritchard's graduate fellowship and funds his research in Langer's lab; in exchange, Pritchard brings to InVivo insights gleaned from some of the smartest scientists working in biomaterials anywhere.
These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.
The Orfalea Fund helped to bring about new standards in early childhood education, school food, and disaster readiness by doing in - depth research, taking risks to discover what works, bringing together dedicated partners to execute programs, and helping families, educators, and policy - makers raise their expectations for a healthier, more resilient community.
The first task was to become world leaders in science, to which end he announced an extra # 50 million funding in stem cell research, and a new partnership of pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that would bring in # 500 million in research and development funds.
According to the complaint, Silver accepted more than $ 3 million in a scheme that brought asbestos referrals to the firm through a doctor who then received $ 500,000 in state funds for research, as well as additional benefits.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said she is also working to bring Republicans around to the legislation, which calls for $ 7.4 billion in research, treatment and compensation funds for 9/11 responders who were exposed to toxic dust during the rescue and recovery efforts.
Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research into the modern age.
While Silver was bringing in the patients — a total of about 25 to 50 — he authorized two state grants, each worth $ 250,000 to fund Taub's Columbia University research, focused on mesothelioma cases related to 9/11.
SERC also funds the Temasek Professorship, * which brings together foreign, world - renowned leaders / professors to spearhead cutting - edge research projects in Singapore.
Johnson was speaking during last month's UK GRAD Annual Conference in London, which brought together representatives of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Research Councils, and Higher Education institutions (HEIs).
The UK's Higher Education Funding Councils are working to improve the standards in research degree programmes so that standards for training, supervision arrangements, feedback mechanisms, and induction are brought in to help overcome the most serious problems faced by research students.
In addition, we will also bring you news on funding for CAM research and development and expert views on upcoming growth areas in CAM that are likely to create new career opportunities for scientists in the years aheaIn addition, we will also bring you news on funding for CAM research and development and expert views on upcoming growth areas in CAM that are likely to create new career opportunities for scientists in the years aheain CAM that are likely to create new career opportunities for scientists in the years aheain the years ahead.
Behind all of Hockfield's goals for bolstering the scientific enterprise lies the idea that brought success to the MIT projects she once shepherded — the concept of articulating the power and potential of scientific research in order to encourage participation and funding.
LabMate, a Boston - area, investor - funded, startup company that launched in May, aims to «disrupt» the current science career logjam by bringing the «gig economy» to bioscience through its proprietary online platform, according to co-founder and CEO Craig Russo, who went into business development after completing a bachelor's degree in biological and biomedical sciences and working as a research assistant.
In 2012, the Obama administration earmarked $ 156 million over two years to fund research, bringing the total to $ 530 million a year; the goal is to defeat Alzheimer's by 2025.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto / LeventKonuk Four years ago the Obama administration offered up $ 19 billion in stimulus funds to help get health care IT (including electronic health records, or EHRs) in the pink — or at least in the black.Better information technology throughout the health care system would save money, improve care and bring the health care industry into the 21st century, proponents argued.But, as is obvious by the continuance of paper records, isolated institutional networks and clunky interfaces, health care IT is still in critical condition.A new report, assembled by the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan research group, suggests that health care IT is not a hopeless case, however.
As a minister, Funeriu passed deep reforms in the national education and research system, aimed at bringing university governance, academic hiring, funding mechanisms, and evaluation in line with other European countries.
If this comes to pass, «we will have one giant and a lot of dwarfs,» says Alain Trautmann, the public face of Sauvons la Recherche, a protest movement that brought thousands of researchers onto the streets last year to protest cutbacks in research funding.
The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.
The pharma giant Novartis, which agreed to fund further research in exchange for ownership of the results, will bring tisagenlecleucel to market under the trade name Kymriah.
However, I was offered a senior Research Officer position for 1 year in Sydney at the Centenary Institute and a chance to continue to work on my project with the intention that I would stay after this period and bring in my own funding.
The first burger was always intended as a proof - of - concept that would bring new funding to the field of in vitro meat research.
To engage in more prosperous international scientific collaborations, it would be valuable to have more funding opportunities that bring together researches from various countries so they can establish together scientific and conservation objectives for various regions of the world.
Scientists from UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research are bringing stem cell science funded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, directly to patients in two exciting new clinical trials scheduled to begin in early 2014.
Many of these prolific scientists are likely the heads of laboratories or research groups; they bring in funding, supervise research, and add their names to the numerous papers that result.
The new research, funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health and published in Nature Genetics, brings the number up to 34 loci.
«The idea is to bring together the best of Spanish science in the cardiovascular area, provide a modern infrastructure and funding to generate high - quality research results, and to train scientists and medics,» says Moncada.
To supplement Leonhardt's COER salary, photonics expert Sailing He and colleagues at COER helped him apply to two government programs for attracting foreign talent: the Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts, or «Thousand Talents» plan, which offers a onetime 500,000 RMB ($ 81,642) resettlement subsidy for a minimum of 3 years of part - time work, and a program offshoot called the Guangdong Province Leading Talent grant, which brings an additional one - time subsidy of 1 million RMB plus up to 5 million RMB in research funds over 5 years.
Between 2007 and 2013, U.K. researchers brought home more than $ 7 billion in EU research funding, second only to Germany.
This brings the absolute risk up to 1 in 10, reveals new UCL research funded by the Medical Research research funded by the Medical Research Research Council.
Similarly to the first campaign, Momentum2 is being launched amid the excitement of a major gift: $ 100 million from the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation — funds that will support research and inevitably bring the world closer to a cure for a disease that afflicts more than 25 million people in this Research Institute Foundation — funds that will support research and inevitably bring the world closer to a cure for a disease that afflicts more than 25 million people in this research and inevitably bring the world closer to a cure for a disease that afflicts more than 25 million people in this country.
Strange said since it started, it has brought more than $ 144 million in research funding into Maine and created 205 jobs.
«We're pleased to fund this project that will bring together well - established and highly regarded research groups throughout the world to enable an unprecedented sharing and analysis of Alzheimer genetic data,» said William Thies, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, and Philippe Lagayette, President of the Fondation Plan Alzheimer in France.
All told, with more than $ 170 million of funding, the state's eight Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) and the IDeA Network for BioMedical Research Excellence have brought economic opportunity to Rhode Island, said Dr. Jack A. Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown, in a videotaped welcome.
The Alliance brings together the efforts of the major National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)- funded Model Organism Database (MOD) groups, and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium, in a synergistic integration of expertly - curated information about the functioning of cellular systems.
Instead, the Kavli IFN will bring researchers together in a dynamic way, so that they can successfully get grants through Cal - BRAIN, the BRAIN Initiative, the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, DARPA, or other funding sources to advance their research.
Historically, Dr. Balling has taken plenty of money from fossil fuel interests, which brings in funding not only to Balling's predetermined «research,» but hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead payments to Arizona State University (see Balling's 1997 testimony to the Minnesota News Council).
The Safadi Program gift will fund research pilot grants to propel early - stage translational research aimed at enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration in the neurosciences; launch an annual lecture series to bring world leaders in the neurosciences to Chicago to foster the dissemination of related research; and support recruitments of neurology and neurosurgery faculty contributing to the translational mission.
To bring this technology to the UK for the first time, we'll be funding Professor Dive's team to work with Professor Kuhn and his colleagues to set up identical labs in Manchester and USC, with real - time sharing of research data and experimental procedures — principles that we know are central to the Moonshot's success.
In 2014, FP7 is replaced by Horizon 2020, a new funding framework that brings together all existing EU - level programs that support research and innovation to ensure scientific excellence; boost industrial leadership and competitiveness; and tackle societal challenges.
I imagine that a formidable challenge for many young scientists is the decision to remain in academia when there are other paths that could bring more money for less effort, especially with such low levels of government funding for research.
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.
These funds support an important research initiative, which brings together expert scientists and medical specialists from across Australia in collaboration to brainstorm high priority issues.
I've got a bit of a nail biting meeting tomorrow, where I'm running a workshop to discuss potential research opportunities across disciplines and ways we might bring in additional funds by thinking outside of the square.
Research on pharmaceuticals is funded by private firms with one goal in mind: bringing profitable drugs to market.
This brings the total of research schools up to 22, five were chosen last October, and a further six were allocated funding in April this year.
Funded by: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation Amount: $ 2,500 Dates: 4/2/17 — 5/1/17 Summary: Dr. Travis Bristol, Assistant Professor in the School of Education, will host a breakfast and discussion at the 2017 AERA Annual meeting designed to bring together senior and junior scholars, as well as graduate students to develop a research agenda for increasing, supporting, and retaining a diverse teacher workforce.
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