Sentences with phrase «first grants awarded»

Kessler Foundation is the recipient of one of the first grants awarded by the International Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Alliance.

Blattner's team started its long decoding project in 1990, after receiving one of the first grants awarded by the NHGRI's predecessor, the Human Genome Center.

It is not the first grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to perform bitcoin analysis.

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Two Western Australian firms have been among the first round of companies awarded federal grants in the «Accelerating Commercialisation» entrepreneurs program.

Summit Power Group LLC, which was awarded $ 450 million in stimulus grants by the Energy Department under the Obama administration, spent $ 1.3 million on «unallowable costs» including spa service, alcohol, first - class travel, limousine services, catering on a private jet and travel expenses to attend a charity event, according to the department's inspector general.

These awards have restrictions that lapse as to one - half of the number of units on the first and second anniversaries of the date of grant.

If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

HRC's determination that the Company has met as of December 31, 2012, certain performance criteria specified in the award; (2) the Performance Shares granted during 2010 that will vest in full if at all in the third quarter of 2013, subject to the HRC's determination that the Company has met as of June 30, 2013, certain performance criteria specified in the award; and (3) the Performance Shares granted in 2011 that will vest in full if at all in the first quarter of 2014, subject to the HRC's determination that the Company has met as of December 31, 2013, certain performance criteria specified in the award.

When granting restricted stock, FedEx first determines the total target value of the award and then approves the delivery of that value in two components: restricted shares and cash payment of taxes due.

When granting restricted stock, the Compensation Committee first determines the total target value of the award and then approves the delivery of that value in two components: restricted shares and cash payment of taxes due.

In the first ever Austin WeWork Creator Awards, seven Austin entrepreneurs won $ 845,000 in financial grants and now head to New York City fo the final event.

Marks - Gardener is the first young person to be awarded William Grant & Sons» new annual spirits scholarship

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring awards state's first grape and wine grants

UN grant: UNICEF has awarded a $ 9,000 grant to Cook County Hospital to be the first U.S. research site for the UN Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.

Carrollton City Schools was also awarded one of the first USDA Farm to School Planning grants in 2013, seven Georgia Shape Grants between 2013 - 2015 and multiple Alliance for Healthier Generation's ggrants in 2013, seven Georgia Shape Grants between 2013 - 2015 and multiple Alliance for Healthier Generation's gGrants between 2013 - 2015 and multiple Alliance for Healthier Generation's grantsgrants.

LINCOLN, MA — The Massachusetts Cultural Council recently awarded Mass Audubon's Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield a $ 119,000 grant that will ensure the completion of the first phase of a renovation / expansion program to enhance the visitor experience at one of Essex County's most popular destinations.

We first met Renee Frederick in June of last year when we announced that she had won the 2013 Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant.

On Thursday, friends of the conservancy awarded their first Golden Rabbit Award to conservancy board member Mary Zavett for her «hundreds of hours» of work on behalf of Grant Park, council President Bob O'Neill said.

It is my hope that the grant awarded to the Conklin Reliable Market is the first of many to help improve the food markets in underserved communities throughout the State.»

Albany, Schenectady and Saratoga Springs are among the 18 communities that will receive funding to combat blight through through smarter use of data as part of the first phase of the Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement («Cities RISE») grant awards, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office announced.

This is the first time FIMI has granted a Social Awareness Award to a pre-mining project rather than an established mining operation.

«The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund's small grant awards are a much - needed first step in reversing the long history of environmental abuse that the Greenpoint community has suffered,» said State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who represents North Brooklyn, in a statement.

This is the second year of the grant program for farmers in their first 10 years of business; $ 610,000 has already been awarded to 19 farms in the state.

It's the first part of the process that will lead to $ 750 million in development grants being awarded across the state.

The twenty - four projects awarded, which range from $ 36,000 to $ 100,000, represent the first grants of the New York Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention Grant Program.

The project, first announced by the County Executive in the fall of 2012, utilizes funding from a two - year grant awarded the state's Center for Environmental Health by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) and was one of only two awarded nationally in that grant round.

AAAS provided 42 reviews for proposals submitted to the Nebraska EPSCoR Faculty FIRST Awards initiative, which is designed to help early career faculty initiate their research programs and compete more effectively for NSF CAREER grants.

The study has been financed by the «Plan Nacional» of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and by the European Union programme Marie Curie Actions, through a postdoctoral grant awarded to Marko Marjanović, first author of the study.

In this respect the NIAMS R03 awards resemble the old NIH - wide R29 (FIRST) awards, which were discontinued 5 years ago; FIRST awards, however, were larger, granting up to $ 350,000 over a 5 - year span, with a maximum of $ 100,000 in any year.

The evening before the AAAS science diplomacy conference, Prof. Mariusz Jaskólski of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and Dr. Alexander Wlodawer of the National Cancer Institute in the United States received the first Poland - U.S. Science Award, granted jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and AAAS.

Young Investigators» Grants are awarded to teams of researchers, all within the first 5 years after getting an independent laboratory.

On February 8 2010, almost a year after it launched, the ASF awarded its first grants, splitting $ 180,000 between six PhD students.

In the meantime, some 34 research teams from around the world have applied for 5 - year, $ 5 - million - a-year Global Research Partnership grants, of which five will be awarded in the first round.

In 2000, its first year, the program awarded eight grants, and Kress says that in 2001, the HRSA «hope [s] to fund additional centers [to cover] larger parts of the country.»

And last week, the recently created Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations awarded its first grant for development of a Lassa fever vaccine to Themis Bioscience, a biotech in Vienna.

As reported by Theodore Kotchen et al. and Howard Dickler et al. in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2004 and 2007, respectively, about 40 % of M.D.s with K08 (mentored clinical scientist development) awards do not even apply for a subsequent first independent (R01) grant.

Despite confusion over how grants will be awarded and how ENCODE will proceed, participants were thrilled by the project — the first opportunity, they say, to dig deep into the human genome.

Interest has been so great that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has had to push back the first round of grants, which the FRA initially promised to award by late summer, until early next year.

The goal of the Damon Runyon award — the first clinical scientist grant program to offer loan repayment — is to help retain physician researchers who otherwise might choose a different career path.

For many postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty, applying for grants and awards is their first exposure to the administrative and financial worlds of scientific bureaucracy.

The research was made possible by an ARC Linkage grant awarded to Strategic Energy Resources Ltd and Monash University and was the first linkage grant for graphene research in Australia.

For the first time, two researchers at the same division and department at Chalmers has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, each of 2.5 million euros.

The first Kit Club grants were awarded mid-2016.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

The institution ranks first in the number of research grants awarded by the National Cancer Institute.

In 2008, she was awarded an Individual Artist Grant by the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the first draft of what was to become The Tiger's Wife, the novel that would propel her into the public eye.

Thanks to a recent grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation — the Marilyn Hilton Award for Innovation in MS Research, the first to be awarded from the Foundation for MS, with the goal of stimulating innovative and potentially paradigm - shifting research — Dr. Akassoglou will investigate whether certain proteins found in the blood can be useful in tracking the progression of the disease in patients.

This is Kelly's second five - year grant from the National Cancer Institute; the first was awarded in 2015.

Funding Agency CPRIT - First Time Tenure Track Award Title Understanding Functional Heterogeneity in Sarcomas Status Active Active Period 2016 Role Principal Investigator Grant Detail Relapse is the major problem in the clinic and understanding how tumors change or evolve at relapse is the focus of this gGrant Detail Relapse is the major problem in the clinic and understanding how tumors change or evolve at relapse is the focus of this grantgrant.

For his outstanding research contributions, Roland Wiesendanger has received numerous scientific awards and honours, including the Gaede - Prize of the German Vacuum Society in 1992, the Max Auwärter Prize in 1992, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 1999, the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2003, two Advanced Grant Awards of the European Research Council in 2008 and 2013, the Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the American Vacuum Society in 2010, the first Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal and Prize in 2014, the Hamburg Science Prize of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences in 2015, and the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics inawards and honours, including the Gaede - Prize of the German Vacuum Society in 1992, the Max Auwärter Prize in 1992, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 1999, the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2003, two Advanced Grant Awards of the European Research Council in 2008 and 2013, the Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the American Vacuum Society in 2010, the first Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal and Prize in 2014, the Hamburg Science Prize of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences in 2015, and the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics inAwards of the European Research Council in 2008 and 2013, the Nanotechnology Recognition Award of the American Vacuum Society in 2010, the first Heinrich Rohrer Grand Medal and Prize in 2014, the Hamburg Science Prize of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences in 2015, and the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics in 2016.