Sentences with phrase «conducted pioneering studies»

Wildlife biologists AMY VEDDER and BILL WEBER, who married in 1972, conducted pioneering studies of Rwanda's gorillas and co-founded the Mountain Gorilla Project.

A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.

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«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

The pioneering study, conducted by researchers from the world - leading Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), found that the C9orf72 protein, which is encoded by the C9ORF72 gene, functions in the autophagy pathway — something which is defective in patients with the most common inherited form of ALS and FTD.

Richard C. Thompson is a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in the UK who has conducted some of the pioneering studies on microplastics in the marine environment.

It's here that researcher Mark Mattson has conducted a lot of pioneering animal studies.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

Outsider Artists began to emerge as a force to be reckoned with during the early 1920's, with the publication of two pioneering studies of art made on asylum inmates, conducted by European psychiatrists in search of universal truths about human creativity.

Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt herself a child of divorce conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003.

Because of our commitment to data quality, in 2011, REDX pioneered an innovative new measurement of lead quality (known as Octane ™) as well as a method of data quality analysis, and conducted an exhaustive study comparing its product against 22 of the largest national data providers.