Sentences with phrase «fighting global diseases»

We believe that unleashing the full potential of scientists worldwide is our best hope for fighting global diseases, feeding our growing population, and protecting our planet.

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This means that in the global fight against malaria, we need to do everything we can to slow the rise of drug - resistant forms of the disease.

According to United Nations Foundation executive director Elizabeth Gore, this partnership is a natural step in the fight against global poverty and disease.

For several decades we've been contributing to the global fight against rust, a devastating fungal disease.

Following the recent celebration of World Heart Day on 29th September, Philips has announced a partnership with the World Heart Federation (the world's only global body dedicated to leading the fight against heart disease and stroke), to further enhance its commitment to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and to help people improve their heart health.

The fight against tobacco use is global: approximately 1 person dies from a disease caused by tobacco use every six seconds around the world.

«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»

«New global migration mapping to help fight against infectious diseases.»

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

The former president has helped lead the global effort to fight Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, through his work with the Carter Center, a foundation he and his wife, Rosalind, established for fighting disease and promoting human rights.

Vague comments about Keystone Addressing the threat of rising global temperatures would be a central part of his efforts, Kerry said, arguing that foreign policy is «not defined by drones and deployments alone» but also by humanitarian aid, fighting disease and promoting freedom.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

April 19, 2018 - Americans may seem divided as ever politically, but today we celebrate one of our greatest bipartisan successes: leading the global fight against malaria, a preventable disease that kills a child every 2 minutes.

The mission of The ALS Association is to lead the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

Working through a number of global collaborations, we are developing this necessary infrastructure — scientific, technical and institutional — to support the use of genomics as a tool in the fight against infectious diseases.

The GEM Report recommends the forthcoming Global Book Fund proposed by several donors increase external resources for textbooks by following models similar to those used by the Gavi Alliance in fighting disease, which includes matched private - donor funding.

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So too, these days, do our efforts to meet our energy needs, feed a growing global population, ensure peace and security, and fight poverty and disease rely on wisely managing water resources that we can no longer treat as limitless.

Runoff from chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.

The ALS Association (National Office and Massachusetts Chapter) operates under a shared mission: to lead the fight to cure and treat ALS through global cutting - edge research, and to empower people with Lou Gehrig's Disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

London About Blog LEAP UK is a global network of law enforcement figures who seek alternatives to failing, punitive drug laws.Our mission at LEAP is to reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition.