Sentences with phrase «director of the life sciences»

Both the central government and local governments, for example, help fund Chinese healthcare startups, according to Marietta Wu, managing director of the life sciences venture fund Quan Capital.

However, NASA's director of life sciences, Joan Vernik, says she is «perplexed» by the report and notes that the space - based crystallography program recently received glowing reviews from the National Institutes of Health.

Paul Schaffer, associate laboratory director of the life sciences division of Canada's particle physics laboratory TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility), which uses particle accelerators to create radioactive materials for medicine, explains in a public lecture that will be broadcast live here on this webpage Wednesday, December 2 at 7 P.M. Eastern time.

He founded BioEYES in 2002 with co-author Jamie R. Shuda, director of life science education at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

The markets that are going to succeed the most in this space, given all of this competition for space and talent, are those that have close proximity to top talent — such as those near universities that produce these graduates — and great access to public transportation, notes Roger Humphrey, executive managing director of life sciences at JLL.

Roger Humphrey, executive managing director of the life sciences group at real estate services firm JLL, says the industry has been growing very fast due to demand from both large and small firms.

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Dr. Freire currently serves on the board of directors of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., a publicly - held urban office real estate investment trust uniquely focused on collaborative life science and technology campuses.

Facilitated by Dr. Jason Field, Executive Director of Life Sciences Ontario (LSO), the panel discussion will focus on «The Road to Commercialization — The story of life sciences companies, their challenges, opportunities and successes&raqLife Sciences Ontario (LSO), the panel discussion will focus on «The Road to Commercialization — The story of life sciences companies, their challenges, opportunities and successes&raqlife sciences companies, their challenges, opportunities and successes».

Vannevar Bush, for example, a former president of MIT and director of the government's Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, published an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly which «offered an amazingly prescient view of the effect of science on the world economy and of computers in daily life.»

Alan Wolfe is professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and Public Life at Boston College.

The director of the new Foundation, Fr Tomasz Trafny of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said: «I don't think most people necessarily see science and faith as being opposed but I do think there is confusion as to where to put faith and where to put science in their life.

«This book features meticulously researched and written chapters by more than 50 Culinology professionals on topics including the principles of food science, food safety and spoilage, shelf life extensions, packaging, nutritious food product development, commercialization and so much more,» RCA Executive Director Suzanne Bohle described.

«The packaging award criteria reflects the right intersection of science, environment and consumers because all of them are extremely critical to the success of the product in the market,» said Sanjay Ghoshal, senior director and global head, Packaging, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. «Most of this packaging will eventually go to create value for human lives; that's really very inspiring for me.»

The collaboration of Ms. Gerstner, a first - rate, professional journalist with a background in reporting on sports science, and Dr. Kutcher, one of the nation's top concussion researchers and clinicians who lives, breathes and eats concussions every day for a living as the National Director of The Sports Neurology Clinic at The CORE InstituteTM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for whom I and my staff at MomsTEAM have enormous respect, is a match made in publishing heaven.

Guest speaker at the 4 - 7 p.m. gathering will be Anita Walker, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that promotes excellence, access, education, and diversity in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences across the Commonwealth to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents.

She said she's a 53 - year - old mother of three who has lived in Rosendale for 17 years, has a PhD in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and is director of the nonprofit Citizens for Local Power.

Commenting on the significance of the symposium to Scotland Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the Edinburgh - based ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, said: «Scotland has long been at the forefront of life - sciences and social science research.

Jennifer Zeitzer, Director of Legislative Affairs for FASEB, said that for the Bay State, the cuts could slow a fast growing life sciences industry.

A former president and CEO of Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress and the Orange County Partnership, respectively, DiTullo has a substantial background in economic development including his most recent position, managing director of the Orange County Business Accelerator where he established a high - tech incubator and attracted more than 22 early stage innovators focused in such industries as the life sciences, bio-medical and web - based software development, to name a few.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

«Our future in medicine and in health depends on understanding the information contained in the human genome, so it's a great topic for Science Week,» said Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Iris Wagstaff, director of EHR's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program, said she has always worked to improve the lives of people around her and discovered along the way that her science background aids her eScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program, said she has always worked to improve the lives of people around her and discovered along the way that her science background aids her escience background aids her efforts.

According to Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061 and the principal investigator for the new curriculum project, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the classroom.

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Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and eduScience to improve science literacy and eduscience literacy and education.

Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton (2010); $ 18.95 at kidscanpress.com; ages 8 to 13 Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, touts this book as «an excellent introduction to a topic not frequently covered in children's books.

«We feel strongly that science is a part of everyone's lives, and that everyone has a science story to tell,» said Artistic Director Erin Barker.

Dick Wettenhall, current director of the institute, and others wanted to establish a unique multidisciplinary center that would expand opportunities in the modern life sciences and provide a link between academia and industry.

The project was successful; drug giant Novartis licensed the contact - lens technology last year and Otis is now director of the Google life - sciences team's hardware and medical - device development.

In September, Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, announced that he would soon be joining Google's life - sciences company to help develop ways to apply technology in mental health.

Dr. Uhlén founded the Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, where he served as director from 2010 to 2015, and has authored more than 750 publications in bioscience with a focus on the development and use of affinity reagents in biotechnology and biomedicine.

Richard Hudson, director of science production for Twin Cities Public Television, called it a memorable film in which Frank «leverages her reflections on her own life and personality to amplify the discoveries and insights of the articulate experts.»

The application solicitation from NSF Director France Cordova (author of this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life article) «sets a 10 - year goal of «transforming [science and engineering] so that it is fully and widely incScience Careers - produced Working Life article) «sets a 10 - year goal of «transforming [science and engineering] so that it is fully and widely incscience and engineering] so that it is fully and widely inclusive.

Dr. Rainer Gerold, Director for Life Science Research of the European Commission, summarized the main goals of the ambitious ERA initiative for Science's Next Wave.

In a perspective piece published November 6 in the journal Science, Eddy Rubin, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, along with Microbial Program Head Tanja Woyke, discusses why the time is right to apply genomic technologies to discover new life on Earth.

«There are some building - science labs out there who try to bring in as many components as possible, but we never thought they got to the point where they really could address all the issues that might come up in a building design standard,» says Dana Pillai, president of Delos's research division and executive director of the Well Living Lab.

The improved economy has led to an uptick in industry hiring in the state, which is good news for life sciences grads, says J. Lynn Griesemer, associate vice president for economic development at the University of Massachusetts and executive director of the UMass Donahue Institute.

Right now, humans are the only hominid species on Earth, but it seems unlikely to remain the case, notes Juan Enriquez, CEO of Biotechnomy, a life - sciences investment firm, and a founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business Schlife - sciences investment firm, and a founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business SchLife Sciences Project at Harvard Business School.

Matt Jackson, a managing director at the financial and professional services firm Jones Lang LaSalle, says that Massachusetts remains the standout among the eastern U.S. bioclusters because its life sciences infrastructure and high quality of life enable it to bring in world - class talent.

Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said, «Science lives and dies with the issue of testability, replication, verification, falsification.»

Dr. Kallioniemi was recently nominated as director of the Science for Life Laboratory, a national infrastructure for life sciences in StockhLife Laboratory, a national infrastructure for life sciences in Stockhlife sciences in Stockholm.

«Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways,» said Judy Skog, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coastal SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) program, which funded the research.

The event was designed to encourage discussion from different perspectives about the applications and risks of big data in the life sciences, said Kavita Berger, AAAS CSTSP associate director.

tweeted Jessica Polka, director of ASAPbio, a nonprofit group pushing for the use preprints in life sciences.

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

«The takeaway here is that these devices may very well be a useful alternative to manual CPR for patients who may be in need of advanced life support,» said the study's corresponding author Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, an associate professor of Emergency Medicine and clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at Penn Medicine.

Professor Ian Owens, Director of Science at the Natural History Museum, says this research is a great example of how natural history collections support high - impact scientific research that addresses challenging questions such as the diversity of life.

«The fundamental mission behind our Worldview enterprise is to foster a productive, meaningful dialogue on the ways in which nations can best leverage their assets for the betterment of their life science and biotechnology sectors» observes Jeremy Abbate, Director of Global Media Solutions, Scientific American.

Christian Marcazzo found his molecular biology and biochemistry degree at the University of California, Berkeley — and his «ability to apply the scientific methodology and approach to problem solving» — essential when he took a BI position as senior director for life science marketing at TIBCO Spotfire in London, he says.