Sentences with phrase «federal funding for research»

There has been a modest decline since 2008 in support for requiring better fuel efficiency for vehicles, increasing federal funding for research on alternative energy and spending more on mass transit.
As such, he said, it breaks the law at the center of the case: the Dickey Wicker amendment, which bars federal funding for research in which human embryos are destroyed.
Since 2001, the United States has banned federal funding for research on all but a few lines of embryonic cells.
The Genetics Policy Institute in Wellington, Florida, a non-profit supporting hESC research, has also asked to file an amicus brief with its analysis of why the NIH policy doesn't violate the Dickey - Wicker law barring federal funds for research that harms embryos.
About eight - in - ten (79 %) favor requiring better fuel efficiency for cars, trucks and SUVs, and 74 % support increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.
In 2001, President George W. Bush limited the use of federal funds for research done with new ESCs.
By providing seed funding for microbiome projects at UW — Madison, we hope to position our faculty to be more competitive when applying for federal funding for their research in this area.»
While the government shutdown and limited federal funding for research created a challenging environment for conducting science, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) clearly remained a force at the intersection of chemistry and biology.
January 18, 2016 Comer Children's doctor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin call for federal research funding into gun violence A University of Chicago Medicine physician Catherine Humikowski joined U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D - Ill., at a press conference Jan. 14 as he continued to push for federal funding for research into the causes and implications of gun violence.
Wicker, then a congressman, was one of the two coauthors, in 1995, of the Dickey - Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal funding for research in which human embryos are destroyed, and which sits at the heart of the current legal dispute.
One of Bill Clinton's first presidential decisions was to lift a ban on federal funding for research with tissue from aborted fetuses.
In March, President Barack Obama lifted Bush's ban on using federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells derived after August 2001.
Advocacy groups have jumped on the new study to call for more federal funding for research and better services for families affected by the disorder.
One oft - stated explanation is that the gun lobby has quashed federal funding for research into firearms violence.
These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.
With further federal funding for research and development, «I think we can get to 70 percent efficiency.»
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released draft guidelines that permit federal funding for research on stem cells from human embryos set to be discarded by fertility clinics.
The axiom that federal funding for research enjoys bipartisan support will be sorely tested next year as the U.S. Congress tries to reauthorize major legislation governing federal policies on research and science education.
The NSF / SRS Federal Funds for Research and Development surveys for 1998 estimate federal contributions to universities and colleges to total more than $ 15 billion, which is almost 60 % of all research funds that academic institutions received that year.
Barbara Schaal, president of AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is calling on Congress to restore federal funding for research on gun violence and set aside ideological differences to help save the lives of some 30,000 Americans felled by gun - related violence each year.
In March 2009, Obama made it possible for researchers to receive federal funding for research on more than 75 different hESC lines.
The order severely restricts embryonic stem cell research to existing lines of cells and bans federal funding for any research expansion outside his directive.
That prospect has been the subject of several congressional hearings since 2001 when President Bush restricted federal funding for research on stem cells derived from embryos.
Meanwhile, there has been silence from Judge Lamberth of the District Court, who has been asked by both sides to rule quickly on the primary question of whether federal funding for the research should be blocked permanently.
Every year, more and more doctoral scientists are seeking to acquire research grants; the intense struggle to win federal funding for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grants!»).
I'm dreaming about the Feds requiring all universities that take federal funds for research to dedicate 50 % of their medical / pharmaceutical research funds to make the statement, «Food should be your medicine and medicine should be your food» come true.
Similarly, 64 % of Republicans favor increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology, down 21 points from two years ago.
Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.
Second, is their argument — that hESC research violates the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for research that destroys or harms embryos — reasonable?
Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.
To recap: On 23 August, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction freezing National Institutes of Health (NIH) support for hESC research because it likely violates the Dickey - Wicker law banning federal funds for research that harms embryos.
News of the trial is also likely to raise the morale of federally funded researchers at the US National Institutes of Health working on hESCs, as the legality of federal funding for their research is being challenged in court.
The new survey finds continuing support for a range of policies to address the nation's energy supply, including requiring improved vehicle fuel efficiency and increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.
NBCC's mission includes increasing awareness about breast cancer, training people to be grassroots activists and increasing federal funding for research.
But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.
The doctors, who include James Sherley, an adult stem cell researcher at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, had argued that by opening up federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), the NIH guidelines made them less likely to win funding to study adult stem cells (ACSs).
The bipartisan budget deal reached in late 2013 was praiseworthy, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner said in a newly published Politico op - ed, but more must be done to counteract the decades - long decline in federal funding for research and development.
But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos; seeing as there are not yet any embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-embryonic stemcells.
The vote is the latest twist in a bitter fight between many House Republicans and the U.S. scientific establishment over the rules of engagement on federal funding for research.
That law bans federal funding for research that destroys embryos.
«Given the dramatic decline in federal funding for research, this challenge gift is a perfect opportunity for everyone to step up to the plate and vote with their checkbooks to show support for our science,» said Brian Kennedy, PhD, Buck Institute President and CEO.
Both McCain and Obama voted in 2006 and 2007 for bills that would increase federal funding for the research, but President Bush vetoed those plans.
Not only is caring for SMA kids difficult, but federal funding for research is scarce.
James Battey, head of the stem - cell task force at the National Institutes of Health, says Congress has barred federal funding for any research that poses a serious risk to an embryo.
However, it wasn't until the 1960s that the Computer - Based Instruction Theory began to take shape, thanks to federal funding for research and development for various industrial and educational labs throughout the United States.
He favors more state and federal funding for research and development.
His solutions, such as «increase federal funding for research and rollout of fossil - fuel substitutes such as hydrogen, cellulosic ethanol (produced from grasses and agricultural waste) and plug - in electric engines,» reflect a touching faith in the ability of the federal government to pick winners among all the potential alternatives to oil out there.
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