Sentences with phrase «development of breakthrough»

Enterprising and resourceful, ability to assist in the development of breakthrough cures and medical treatments, with special focus on patient wellbeing.

California is also a leader in the development of breakthrough, game - changing technology that could dramatically change outcomes, especially beyond 2050.

For almost 30 years the federal government aggressively invested in the research and development of breakthrough drilling techniques and partnered with industry to demonstrate new technologies.

But CRI Clinical Investigator Dr. Ian Frazer is modest about his contribution to the development of the breakthrough cervical cancer vaccine.

The goal is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies capable of turning most cancers into curable diseases.

NHGRI's «Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies» grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human - sized genome to be sequenced for $ 1,000 or less.

Forging such strategic partnerships will help to facilitate the development of breakthrough technologies which have the potential to deliver huge societal and economic benefits.»

The idea is to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies that can take waste carbon dioxide streams from industrial facilities, and turn them into valuable and useful items, from t - shirts to toothpaste.

To fast - forward development of breakthrough defense technology Lockheed Martin is investing in start - ups through its Lockheed Martin Ventures fund.

Not exact matches

Considered one of the first three «modern programmers,» Dr. Hopper made trailblazing breakthroughs in the development of computer languages.

These might include anything from winning a project, getting a new client, hitting a milestone of some sort, taking a trip somewhere, or making a personal - development breakthrough.

Consider that over the past 20 years, software development has been the discipline from which some of the most radical breakthroughs in business have emerged.

The breakthrough, he adds, has been an evolutionary one in the development of the controls needed to manipulate the magnetic fields to the temperatures (millions of degrees) and pressures in which fusion happens.

TORONTO, August 16, 2016 — Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

In the letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft said a tie - up would achieve economics of scale while allowing combined research and development efforts to achieve breakthrough products, particularly in the growing areas of online video and mobile Internet connections.

But the great and encouraging consequence of this breakthrough is that the humanity of the unborn child, even at the earliest embryonic stage of development, is now a subject of polite conversation even in the circles that so fanatically resisted acknowledging the facts of life.

The birth of a cloned human being or the attempt to gestate a genetically engineered baby, the development of an artificial womb (currently in animal testing), or some other such sudden breakthrough — any of these could awaken the sleeping giant and spark an intense policy brouhaha.

One of DairiConcepts» breakthrough developments is Ascentra ™, a sodium - reducing, flavor - enhancing powder ingredient that naturally amplifies the perception of salt.

A breakthrough in our understanding of how betaglucan structure is controlled may enable the development of healthier wheat grains with higher levels of soluble betaglucan, a special type of dietary fibre that can help lower blood cholesterol.

Talking about this major breakthrough in promoting flexible packaging sustainability, joint president of packaging and new product development at Uflex Mr Jeevaraj Pillai said: «Edible oil needs to be carefully protected from oxygen that makes it rancid.

Hector Bellerin's breakthrough into the Arsenal football club first team is something of an accelerated development!

Late - night talks finally ended in Germany dropping its objections to plans for the European Central Bank to become the chief supervisor of European banks, in a development being viewed as a breakthrough in the struggle to contain the ongoing eurozone crisis.

Biden even adopted a favorite Cuomo talking point when comparing the investment in photonic research and development to other massive infrastructure and technology breakthroughs, saying it is akin to the construction of the Erie Canal in New York under DeWitt Clinton.

They will not be expected to attend conference, he said, and materials will be provided to them to keep them abreast of developments in budget talks (assuming any breakthroughs are made).

In New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party (Routledge, # 26.99), Matthew J Goodwin examines the development of the BNP, its successes and failure to breakthrough to the big - time.

A major breakthrough in the treatment of cancer was the development of multiple chemotherapeutic agents (known as combination chemotherapy).

As the county's new official economic development entity, the Partnership has been tasked to leverage our obvious assets and to breakthrough the clutter of a crowded marketplace to showcase our lesser - known growth clusters.

Located next to the Buffalo General Medical Center, the facility brings Kaleida Health physicians and SUNY Buffalo researchers together to join in the advancements in care and treatment, development of new medical technologies, discovery of breakthroughs and the spin off new biotechnology businesses and jobs.

Helping transmission «backbone» «This is a major breakthrough,» said Bob Mitchell of Trans - Elect Development Co..

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

One breakthrough was the development in 2002 of gels made of synthetic materials such as polyhydroxyethyl methacrylate, which can be injected into a joint where it solidifies and becomes a cushion with the same shock - absorbing function as cartilage.

«While the methods available to those who would undermine privacy have undergone rapid development, the methods of «defense» have not achieved similar breakthroughs,» according to the authors.

This breakthrough discovery is a major step forward towards the development of an asthma vaccine.

One major technological breakthrough that allowed for the creation of skyscrapers in the late 1800s was the development of a material that was lighter and stronger than previously used materials: steel.

«Major breakthrough identifies new mechanism for the development of schizophrenia.»

«The research performed at NSLS - II will probe the fundamental structure of novel materials and help drive the development of low - cost, low - carbon energy technologies, spark advances in environmental science, and spur medical breakthroughs,» Moniz said.

Although scientists have welcomed the development, they say the real breakthrough will be when someone manages to extract ES cells from the inner cell mass of cloned blastocysts and generate a cell line from them.

The project will provide grants for development of «breakthrough» technologies in areas such as reduction of foreign oil consumption and energy - related emissions, and improvements in energy - efficiency.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

Erik DeBenedictis of Sandia's Advanced Device Technologies department said Sandia can play an important role in creating breakthroughs that are not simply variations of transistors — developments such as computers that learn or technologies that move data from one part of the computer to another more efficiently — crucial for big data problems.

It is expected the breakthrough could have a major impact on the development of therapies for a variety of diseases, including cancer.

The breakthrough was based on the development of ultra-bright electron sources that dates back to the 2003 work.

These developments laid the foundations for the communications revolutions of the 20th century, although no crystal ball gazer at that time could have quessed how they presaged the incredible technological breakthroughs to come.

«It tells us that forests are not absorbing all of industrial emissions, but we all knew that before,» says Linus Blomqvist, director of the Conservation and Development Program at the Breakthrough Institute, a neoenvironmental think tank.

They have become a valuable resource for biologists, enabling momentous scientific breakthroughs including the development of the polio vaccine the Nobel Prize winning studies defining the role of telomerase in aging, and research on the causative role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in some types of cervical cancer.

«The Chinese government has been actively pursuing and supporting a technology development agenda that very quickly allowed China to make a breakthrough in the new generation of various technologies, and carbon capture and storage technology development was at first riding on this wave,» said Ellina Levina, an energy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

Each year, Science chooses a singular scientific development as Breakthrough of the Year.

A wunderkind of astronautical engineering during his 11 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Edwards led the development of the world's first optical cryocooler, a breakthrough device that achieved supercold temperatures with no moving parts («It breaks two, if not all three, laws of thermodynamics,» he says), and designed missions to the moon and Jupiter's moon Europa.

Now, an international group led by Prof. Danny Porath of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four DNA strands, signaling a significant breakthrough towards the development of DNA - based electrical circuits.