Sentences with phrase «chemistry research at»

Schrum, who led early chemistry research at Moderna and made some of the discoveries behind its initial patents, had left the company by the time the AstraZeneca deal was sealed.

Not exact matches

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

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.»

These days, the research she conducts as an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at San Francisco State University (SFSU) focuses less on advancing science and more on helping students advance — especially those from underrepresented groups.

Jake Yeston joined the staff at Science in 2004, with responsibilities to edit and coordinate review for original research submissions in chemistry and overlapping segments of biochemistry and applied physics.

Led by Illinois chemistry professor M. Christina White, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in collaboration with researchers at Pfizer Global Research and Development detailed the new reactivity of the catalysts in the journal Nature.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

Another important lesson was to understand the significance of forensic research teamwork in such complex cases: Together with the departments of chemistry and pathology at the forensic laboratory, we wrote a report that proved to be useful in deciding the case.

«Certainly at the molecular level, research on signal pathways and chemistry are important,» Jock says.

I started a vacation scholarship program in chemistry at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Marine Laboratories and found that science could indeed be interesting.

The ETE comprised different research programs relating to the environment carried out at the NUS faculties of engineering, medicine, and science with research efforts focused on the following six areas: biotreatment technology, membrane technology, adsorption and regeneration, environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis and air pollution control, and air quality management.

«The cortex basically takes all the information coming in and synthesizes it into reality,» says David E. Nichols, a professor of medicinal chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who has done animal research on hallucinogens.

The initiative is designed to stimulate collaborative research at the interface of computing and the sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, materials science, immunology, and ecology.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.

«This began from my core research,» said Morosan, professor of physics and astronomy, of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.

Start - up company Zink Imaging in Bedford, Mass., devised the process, the basic chemistry of which was invented by Stephen Telfer, now senior research fellow at the company.

«We hope that this new catalyst could be a step toward a greener way to produce ethylene,» said Shouheng Sun, a professor of chemistry and engineering at Brown, whose research team developed the catalyst.

Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.

At Queensborough Community College, Svoronos started a chemistry undergraduate research program from scratch.

He was an organic chemistry professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1942 to 1976, where he carried out research on alkaloids, antibiotics, enzymes, and other organic compounds.

In a report last August a research team at the University of Michigan measured placebo - related brain chemistry for the first time, moving the effect beyond the realm of subjective observation.

Shaul Mukamel, a chemistry professor at the University of California - Irvine, said that the Princeton research is a step forward in an important and active research field called coherent control, in which light can be manipulated to control behavior at the molecular level.

After high school, Ford attended Clark Atlanta University, earning a B.S. and M.S. in a 5 - year accelerated program in chemistry at the minority - serving institution with a PRISM - D (Program for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate) Scholarship.

In his junior year, Gazzaley undertook an after - school research internship in a biophysical chemistry lab at Columbia University.

Some degrees focus primarily on course work; the more traditional Master's includes research and a thesis; and the newer approach mentioned by Ortega — the professional Master's degree — aims at preparing students for more specific careers, such as bioinformatics, biotechnology, environmental geoscience, forensic chemistry, industrial mathematics, and many other options.

At the ceremony in Warsaw, Turner — who is a chemistry professor at the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.&raquAt the ceremony in Warsaw, Turner — who is a chemistry professor at the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.&raquat the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.»

«Traditionally, people have adopted very primitive concepts of molecules, representing them with ball - and - stick models,» says Paul Mezey, director of the mathematical chemistry research unit at the University of Saskatchewan and the inventor of the new system.

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

Instead it reveals bumps that could indicate a loss of OH, according to research presented at the AGU conference by Alexander Turner, a graduate student in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University.

One thing that won't get you hired is sending a massive e-mail to every faculty member in that department, says Michael Doyle, former president of the Council on Undergraduate Research and chemistry professor at the University of Maryland.

Physics and chemistry professor Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology married two previously independent lines of research: femtochemistry, in which pairs of brief laser pulses initiate and monitor a chemical reaction, and electron diffraction, in which a molecule's structure is determined from the scatter of electrons fired at a crystal containing billions of copies of that molecule.

New research suggests that surface - generated eddies help distribute heat, chemistry and life at deep - ocean hydrothermal vents

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most important national research funder in Germany, and the Degussa - Hüls AG, a global chemistry corporation based at Marl, have recently jointly set up the Nanomaterials Priority Program involving seven German universities (see Next Wave report).

«I looked at my other chemistry - major friends who were so excited about grad school and about research,» she says, and she decided «that's just not me.

One common application for quantum dots is to use them as cell markers in biomedical research, says Todd Krauss, an associate professor of chemistry and optics at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics who studies the fundamental properties of quantum dots as well as their optical properties.

«Our ultimate goal is to engineer microbes to make new versions of these antibiotics for our use, which will drastically reduce the amount of time and money necessary for new drug testing and development,» says Gavin Williams, associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.

With support from WPI's Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3), Marion Emmert, assistant professor of chemistry, chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering at WPI, and postdoctoral fellow H.M. Dhammika Bandara conduct research at WPI's Gateway Park in a specially equipped laboratory, one of the only such facilities of its kind in the nation.

«This opens up entirely new opportunities in pharmaceutical research and may lead to the discovery of new drugs,» says Yitzhak Apeloig, who specializes in organic chemistry at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Richmond, a U.S. science envoy as well as presidential chair and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, gave some examples of research and commercialization that led to products such as heart valve replacements, medications, voice recognition systems, and automobile airbags that «fell short for women» because they were designed mostly with men in mind.

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications.

As Sankaran Thayumanavan, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains, academics are often only interested in — or only funded for — solving basic research questions, while corporations like to see that a drug or device works in animals before stepping in.

A McGill - led international research team has now completed the first global study of changes that occurred in a crucial component of ocean chemistry, the nitrogen cycle, at the end of the last ice age.

But new research by Leila Deravi, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern, brings us a step closer.

At HMC, Minehan plans to initiate a research program in synthetic organic chemistry, including explorations of «green» synthetic techniques.

Dr. Kubicek studied synthetic organic chemistry for his undergraduate degree at the Vienna University of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in in molecular biology at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

Despite the great pleasure I took in chemistry, I decided not to undertake a Ph.D., which, at that time, was a precondition for a job in research.

Ross is the Roger A. Berg Research Professor of radiology and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School, while Rehemtulla is the Ruth Tuttle Freeman Research Professor of Radiation Oncology.

degree in chemistry at Nijmegen University in 1996; the curriculum included research training at the Solid State Physics group.

Christopher Chidsey, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University who was not involved in this work, says the research «seems to be both theoretically well - grounded and experimentally creative.»