Sentences with phrase «endowed chairs in»

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

The Salk Institute is pleased to announce that faculty members Geoffrey M. Wahl and Martyn Goulding were celebrated as the recipients of endowed chairs in recognition of their significant scientific accomplishments at a special reception on March 29.

In the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western University.

Gilbert, who holds the Presidential Endowed Chair in Computing, is conducting his own study on whether society could change how youths view computer science.

On the other hand, Jill Mann was appointed to an endowed chair in the English department although she is an outspoken atheist.

Mr. Jordan came out of the closet at the University of Notre Dame, where he was engaged in sundry and sordid scandals, and now holds an endowed chair in philosophy at Emory University.

They raised Lutheran money for an endowed chair in religion and for a center for church and society.

Singh holds an industry ‐ endowed chair in Dairy Science and Technology at Massey University in New Zealand.

Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Endowed Chair in Anthropology Director, Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

A major challenge in addiction science is to understand how transient experiences lead to long - lasting risk for relapse in users who try to quit, according to MUSC professor Christopher W. Cowan, Ph.D., William E. Murray SmartState ® Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, and senior researcher on the project.

«The Braden QD Scale provides acute care pediatric clinicians with one instrument to predict both immobility - and device - related pressure injuries across diverse age and clinical populations,» says lead - author Martha A. Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Penn Nursing and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«Despite new therapies, it's virtually inevitable that a patient with multiple myeloma will experience relapse of the disease at some point,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Koman Family Presidential Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School.

«The transplanted islets need a lot of oxygenation and a connection to the body's circulatory system to sense the glucose levels and transport the insulin,» noted García, who is also the Rae and Frank H. Neely Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering.

«We know that the mechanical environment of cells is important,» explained Campàs, who holds the UCSB Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Systems Biology and Bioengineering.

«Corporations need to plug troubled employees into the social network immediately so they don't store up these negative feelings whenever and wherever they get them,» said Quick, who also holds the John and Judy Goolsby - Jacqualyn A. Fouse Endowed Chair in the Goolsby Leadership Academy.

«This is the first time that this specific protein - protein signaling complex has been identified in GBM, and it gives us a new potential target for drug development,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

«In no way is the nonsecretor mother's milk less healthy, and their babies are at no greater risk,» said David Mills, Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair in Dairy Food Science at UC Davis and senior study author.

This pattern of adaptation is often seen in tumor cells, according to J. Alan Diehl, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in Lipidomics, Pathobiology and Therapy at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and senior researcher on the project.

Paulos is an endowed chair in the Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, an associate professor in the Department of Immunology and a member of the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.

Rangnekar, a professor in the department of radiation medicine, also holds the Alfred Cohen Endowed Chair in Oncology Research.

«There's a lot of literature that points to chondrodystrophy in dogs as an exciting animal model for degenerative disc disease in people,» said Bannasch, who also holds the Maxine Adler Endowed Chair in Genetics.

«You go through terrible chemotherapy, achieve remission, have a new lease on life and then your heart fails,» said Dr. Todd Cooper, director of the Pediatric Leukemia / Lymphoma Program and Evans Family Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer at Seattle Children's.

Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Biomaterials at Ohio State, has spent years cultivating new domestic rubber sources, including a rubber - producing dandelion.

Dr. Filardo is director of epidemiology, office of the Chief Quality Officer, for Baylor Scott & White Health and Bradley Family Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Epidemiology.

The average time to recovery from depression was 9 months longer for adults who had been physically abused during their childhood and about 5 months longer for those whose parents had addiction problems» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair in the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

«MCC is rare, but our research shows that it's becoming less rare,» says board - certified dermatologist Paul Nghiem, MD, PhD, FAAD, head of the division of dermatology and George F. Odland Endowed Chair in Dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Gerard A. Silvestri, M.D., M.S., a lung cancer pulmonologist at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center who holds the George C. and Margaret M. Hillenbrand Endowed Chair in thoracic oncology, led the study.

We were intrigued by the occurrence of hydrocephalus in the brains of these mice and began to investigate the structures within the brain that might be involved — the choroid plexus and the ciliated ependyma,» said corresponding author Alessandra d'Azzo, Ph.D., who holds the Jewelers For Children Endowed Chair in Genetics and Gene Therapy at St. Jude.

«Early childhood is protective and presents a very short - lived window for intervention to ensure cardio - metabolic health in the future,» notes Melinda Sothern, PhD, LSU Health New Orleans Professor and Jim Finks Endowed Chair in Health Promotion, the study's principal investigator.

«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.

This complexity contributes to its aggressive nature and resistance to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at Massey Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

«This is the first tool of its kind,» said Jayich, UCSB's Bruker Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering and associate director of the campus's Materials Research Lab.

Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, is the Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington.

-- one of the world's top researchers in the field of human genetics, behavior and neuropsychiatric diseases — has been named Endowed Chair in Behavioral Genomics by the Department of Psychiatry and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.

«As the world's population ages, cognitive frailty is our biggest biomedical challenge,» said Dena Dubal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology, the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegeneration at UCSF and lead author of the study, published May 8 in Cell Reports.

David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, and the W.W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at The Wistar Institute, and peers received the 2018 Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

11/24/2008 Robert Malinow Named First Shiley - Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease at UC San Diego Robert Malinow, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been named the first recipient of the Shiley - Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research in Honor of Dr. Leon Thal.

Smith is director of the Genitourinary Malignancies Program and holds the Claire and John Bertucci Endowed Chair in Genitourinary Cancers in the MGH Cancer Center and is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

February 12, 2008 $ 1.5 Million Gift Allows LRI to Create an Endowed Chair in Cancer Genomics Research; Dr. Charis Eng is First Chair Holder Sondra and Stephen Hardis - who have lost several friends and a close family member to cancer - have committed $ 1.5 million to establish an endowed chair within Lerner Research Institute (LRI) to further cancer genomics research.

Brenda Banwell, MD, FAAP, FRCPC, FAAN Chief of the Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Grace R. Loeb Endowed Chair in Neurosciences

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Systems Biology University of California - San Diego

The position of CGO was envisioned as a way to integrate and coordinate the strong clinical genetics services that now exist across the UCSF enterprise, said Mary Norton, MD, the David E. Thorburn, MD and Kate McKee Thorburn Endowed Chair in Perinatal Medicine and Genetics at UCSF and co-chair of the CGO search committee.

Dr. Ed Vargo, Endowed Chair in Urban and Structural Entomology at Texas A&M University, College Station, is among a team of scientists who recently published «Identification of a Queen and King Recognition Pheromone in the Subterranean Termite Reticulitermes,» in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/15/1721419115

«It's remarkable that we can improve cognition in a diseased brain despite the fact that it's riddled with toxins,» says lead author Dena Dubal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology and the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at UCSF.

This work was supported in part by the Welch Endowed Chair in Biochemistry [grant number BI-0028] at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Jordan Smoller is the MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

-- one of the world's top researchers in the field of human genetics, behavior and neuropsychiatric diseases — has been named Endowed Chair in Behavioral Genomics by the Department of Psychiatry and the University of... More...

Professor Gail Jarvik M.D., Ph.D. is an internist and medical geneticist who holds the Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine and heads the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle.

7/19/2007 UCSD Names Ming Tsuang to Endowed Chair in Behavioral Genomics Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.