Sentences with phrase «cell research funding»

An independent study last year found that state stem cell research funding supported more than 500 well - paying jobs.

The previous posting is a little harsh and, I think, misses the point, which is: \ n \ n «In light of the ethical problems, Strieffer called for the Bush Administration's restrictions on stem cell research funding to be overturned.»

This paper continues the investigation of stem cell research funding in the United States by examining the funding patterns at the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission.

In the following years, advocates were also actively engaged in Washington, D.C, encouraging policymakers to broaden embryonic stem cell research funding, which was ultimately passed after President Barack Obama came into office.

Prof. Orly Reiner's research is supported by the Helen and Martin Kimmel Institute for Stem Cell Research; the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases; the Kekst Family Institute for Medical Genetics; the Dr. Beth Rom - Rymer Stem Cell Research Fund; the Dears Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lowenthal; the estate of David Georges Eskinazi; and the estate of Jacqueline Hodes.

This research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS047344, NS048271 and NS072924), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES021957), the National Institute of Mental Health (MH087874), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD06918, HD064743 and HD066560), the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, NARSAD, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) and the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation.

This work was supported by grants from Maryland State Stem Cell Research Fund (grant numbers 2011 - MSCRFII - 0088 and 2011 - MSCRFE - 0087) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (grant numbers 2R01 HL - 073781, U01 HL107446 and T32 HL007525 - 31).

Co-organizers are the Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Karolinska Institute, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund / TEDCO, Mayo Clinic, The New York Stem Cell Foundation, Nova Southeastern University and NSU Cell Therapy Institute, The Cure Alliance, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Florida Center for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Maryland is also one of a handful of states to provide public funds for stem cell research, through its Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF).

The study was funded by Florida State University; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (grant numbers AI119530 and AI111250), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (grant numbers NS048271, NS095348, NS047344, NS051630 and NS079625); and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund.

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) has awarded two rounds of grants since the Charlotte Lozier Institute last analyzed the Fund's pattern of grant making for stem cell research, in the fall of 2013.

State officials who run the stem cell research fund say they're trying to emphasize collaboration between academics and companies to accelerate the pace of development.

To learn more about making a gift to the fund can click here and select «Alpern Stem Cell Research Fund,» or contact Anne Cooper at [email protected] or at [phone].

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• Nexcelom Bioscience, a Lawrence, Mass. - based provider of cell counting and analysis products for biomedical research and the biopharma industry, raised funding of an undisclosed amount.

The Biohub, which has been funding various biomedical research projects since September 2016, includes its own cell - atlas project.

Dr. Tournay Flatto spent a decade as President of the Emerald Foundation, an independently funded medical research foundation based in New York City and was the Director of External Affairs at the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

MaRS Innovation is delighted to announce that two of its commercialization projects — notably an umbilical cord stem cell technology from Mount Sinai Hospital and nicotine addiction therapy from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)-- have received Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP) funding.

This includes a stem cell research centre, a network of drug discovery institutes and a # 20 million global clinical development fund dedicated to supporting Phase I and II clinical trials; and a # 2 million collaboration between University of Cambridge and University College London that will use donated cells from people with Alzheimer's to test potential new treatments

• President Obama did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem - cell research.

ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth's court urging that human embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to see it their way.

Government funding for research into sickle - cell disease is pitifully inadequate (the Sickle - Cell Society receives no government funds at acell disease is pitifully inadequate (the Sickle - Cell Society receives no government funds at aCell Society receives no government funds at all).

Proponents of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical benefits of embryonic stem - cell research override all other considerations» and therefore restrictions on the funding and scope of this research are unwarranted.

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.

In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research argue that restricting federal funding to a limited....

Less incredible, and perhaps only to be expected, is the news that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the dynamic duo who brought The Lord of the Rings to the silver screen, have donated $ 310,000 from the movie's profits to fund human embryonic stem - cell research.

He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human - embryonic - stem - cell research.

Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.

Many of these marketing tactics are used by Medela worldwide, and the information about the Family Larrson - Rosenquist Foundation's lack of arms length status is also important, since Medela has funded research to explore the use of stem cells in breastmilk as medicine.

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.

Britain's stem cell bank was the first of its kind in the world, funded with # 2.6 million from the Research Council, and the biotechnology sector now employed 22,000 people.

We Democrats are on track this year to take all State - wide offices and to come closer to our goal of taking over the State Senate, so that our legislation, including D.R.I.E. parity with seniors, Timothy's Law, inclusion of PWDs in the EPIC senior prescription program, and funding for stem cell research, can be passed.

The Regenerative Research Foundation in Rensselaer, an affiliate of the Neural Stem Cell Institute, will receive nearly one - fifth of the funds, or almost $ 1.1 million, for work aimed at promoting spinal cord regeneration after injury.

Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (1R01NS091010 - 01, 1R01DC014690 - 01), Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO), Pew Charitable Trusts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, McKnight Foundation and New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Under a 2015 moratorium, the National Institutes of Health does not fund research that transplants human stem cells into early embryos of other animals.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

«It gave critics plenty of ammunition to insist that if stem - cell research was funded, human reproductive cloning would be funded too,» says Caplan.

He worries that the ruling could foster an unwelcoming climate that would eventually trickle down to limit funding for basic research on embryonic stem cells.

In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.

In granting an injunction to two scientists who oppose widening US government funding for research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), Judge Royce Lamberth wrote of «simply preserving the status quo».

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

Congressional supporters of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order lifting restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available to federally funded researchers.

That summer, President George W. Bush had approved federal funding for human ES - cell research, but only for a small number of cell lines that had already been created.

The work, funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.

This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National Science Foundation - funded Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

California's stem cell agency has funded new facilities, providing $ 50 million for the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building at Stanford University, for examcell agency has funded new facilities, providing $ 50 million for the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building at Stanford University, for examCell Research Building at Stanford University, for example.

She was on her way out to a pub after a scientific conference when she spotted Paul Nurse, who was working on cell - cycle regulation at Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

Current supported funding areas at NINDS and NIMH include counterterrorism and neuroscience research, neural prosthesis program, neural stem cells, adult and pediatric translational research and treatment development, and the NIH neuroscience Blueprint.