Sentences with phrase «cofounder of»

Resveratrol made headlines in 2006 when Harvard University scientists led by pathologist David Sinclair, the other cofounder of Sirtris, detailed its seemingly miraculous properties.

Congress cut off funding to listen for radio signals from extraterrestrials in 1993, and these days much of the research is supported at the whim of Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft.

She is also the cofounder of Elixir Pharmaceuticals, a company that plans to apply her findings and those of other researchers to create a human antiaging pill.

Here is how to get an appointment with George M. Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, director of four organizations devoted to genomics, cofounder of four biotech firms within the past four years, scientific adviser to 17 ultralow - cost genome sequencing companies, and founder of the Personal Genome Project:

As cofounder of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, she has a soft spot for these strange creatures, which migrate long distances, live in harsh conditions and have no evolutionarily close relatives.

If the muon detectors were left running in their current locations for many years, researchers could get more precise images and possibly detect smaller structures, says Mehdi Tayoubi, cofounder of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute in Paris, which led the project.

Rod Ruoff, a physical chemist at the University of Texas at Austin and cofounder of a spin - off company, Graphene Energy, says even the firm's first experimental model rivaled the best available ultracapacitors in energy storage.

It has not gone unnoticed, for example, that entrepreneurs like Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, Andy Grove, founder of Intel, and Vinod Khosla, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, were all born overseas.

There's an intriguing new book out called Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (a cofounder of the Salon Web site), which centers on a group of engineers struggling to create a piece of personal productivity software called Chandler.

That may soon change, courtesy of Edie Widder, a cofounder of the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) and a specialist in marine bioluminescence.

As a cofounder of ORCA, devoted to scientific inquiry about the health of the world's oceans, she recognizes that time is of the essence for studying as much of the deep - sea ecosystem as she can right now.

Wilson da Silva, editor and cofounder of the Australian magazine Cosmos, said journalists have a responsibility to write about these issues unequivocally.

«Genetically, this type of clone is still a member of our species,» says David Prentice, a cellular biologist at Indiana State University and cofounder of Do No Harm, a group of scientists favoring alternatives to embryonic stem cell research.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

In October John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University and cofounder of Cyberkinetics, announced results from the first human trial of his company's BrainGate system.

Big corporations are beginning to find safer alternatives such as using grapefruit seed extract as a preservative, to reformulate the product using fewer ingredients or to choose different packaging, said Janet Nudelman, cofounder of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, the group that blew the whistle on Johnson & Johnson and now praises it.

Amory Lovins is a physicist, economist, inventor, automobile designer, consultant to 18 heads of state, author of 29 books, and cofounder of Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank.

More pessimistic souls, such as Bill Joy, a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, envision nano - machines as the perfect precision military or terrorist tools.

Peter Todd, an evolutionary psychologist and cofounder of the research group, points out that, given Dr Seuss's famous menu of green eggs and ham, most people would opt for the ham.

Julian Stubbs is a brand strategist, writer, and cofounder of the global cloud - based advertising agency * UP There, Everywhere.

You are the author of a best - selling book and the cofounder of a popular science festival.

At this point Anne Wojcicki, cofounder of 23andMe, entered our conversation full of energy.

Moore went on to become the cofounder of chip giant Intel and now, at 76, is chairman emeritus of its board.

DeSimone is CEO and cofounder of Carbon3D, the company that developed this printing technology, which he and his colleagues call «continuous liquid interface production technology» or CLIP.

«Anyone can buy [our] system, and it's intended to be a highly distributed, very accessible platform,» says Ben Hindson, chief scientific officer and cofounder of 10x Genomics in Pleasanton, California.

As evidence, he points to his role as a cofounder of rOpenSci, a group that creates software packages to support open science and which grew out of connections he made online, including via his online notebook.

Huey Newton, the cofounder of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, once said, «Power is the ability to define phenomena.»

Demis Hassabis, cofounder of Google - owned firm DeepMind, and Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project, have both hinted that StarCraft will be their next target, while Facebook researchers have just released an open - source platform designed to help people develop AI to play the game.

«When a tool breaks, at the very worst the space - station crew calls Houston and says, «Send us a CAD (computer - aided design) file of that tool,» and they'll be able to 3D - print it,» said Jason Dunn, chief technology officer and cofounder of Made in Space, Inc. «Ideally, one day they'll be able to design it themselves.»

An organization called The Computer Ate My Vote, led by entrepreneur Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, has more than 400,000 members and raised $ 100,000 in its first two days of fund - raising.

Neuroethicist Wrye Sententia, acting director and cofounder of the nonprofit Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), responds that fears of a new drug culture à la the «tune in, turn on, drop out» 1960s just do not apply to the modern better - living - through - chemistry model.

Rolf Halden, cofounder of the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that triclosan and triclocarban show up in many waterways that receive treated wastewater — more than half of the nation's rivers and streams.

Brian Greene is a string theorist at Columbia University, author of the best seller The Elegant Universe, and cofounder of the World Science Festival in New York.

Parish is the cofounder of the Energy Action Coalition, a consortium of 50 youth - led groups that motivate young people to advocate for a clean - energy economy.

He was cofounder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero.

Sara is a cofounder of the New Latino Movement, a civic engagement group focused on developing young leaders to promote equal opportunity and justice for Latinos, and a former member and Vice President the Board of Directors of GNYCFC.

Patrick Kennell, a member of Community Board 1 and cofounder of the Financial District Neighborhood Association, is now cofounding a new political club to organize Downtown Democrats.

«Our goal is basically to help the cats in any way we can with the help of the community,» said Kevin Long, cofounder of the Facebook group.

«I can not be more thankful to County Executive [Rob] Astorino and the Westchester Board of Legislators for their vote of confidence,» said cofounder of Standard Amusements Nicholas Singer, who sat in the audience as the votes were cast.

Last March, the Daily News reported that his White House ally, former Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrión, took thousands of dollars in campaign cash from Fine, the cofounder of Atlantic Development Group, and from others connected to a megaproject the firm built in the Bronx, Boricua Village.

Andrew Rasiej, cofounder of the tech politics conference and website Personal Democracy Forum, * talks about «videracy» — a new literacy defined by the ability to produce videos that can express complex ideas.

«With 100 people, we have that ability,» said Zac Moffatt, cofounder of Targeted Victory and the digital director for Romney's 2012 campaign.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers» Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Lactation Services.

By Lysa Parker, cofounder of Attachment Parenting International (API) and coauthor of Attached at the Heart with Barbara Nicholson

Narrator: James Schmidt is an emergency room pediatrician and cofounder of wellhomecheck.org, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

«Parenting for a Sustainable World: Cultivating a Reverence for Life» by Lysa Parker, cofounder of API and coauthor of Attached at the Heart

«Asking a concussed athlete if they can play is like asking a drunk driver if they can drive,» says Lauren Long, cofounder of Concussion Connection, an athlete support group.

«These days when everyone is so busy, we need to be intentional about making space for family time...» Family time, says Contey [cofounder of Slow Family Living] is different for all of us.

As cofounder of Attachment Parenting International (API), she served as the executive director for thirteen years, focusing on program development, public relations, and fundraising.