Sentences with phrase «for young investigators for»

Ken Nakamura received the Jon Stolk Award in Movement Disorders for Young Investigators for his research on how changes in mitochondria contribute to Parkinson's disease.

Not exact matches

The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacYoung Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacyoung New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.

Private investigator Sam Brower, who has followed the FLDS for nearly a decade, says that Jeffs» younger brother, Lyle, could become the next so - called prophet of the FLDS.

A native of New York, Shapiro has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology Award for Clinical Research, the UCLA Division of Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Teaching Award, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigators Award.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, corecipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and former Presidential Young Investigator.

He had hunted Soviet subs in the Baltic Sea, lost a small fortune in the 2000 stock market crash, racked up a series of awards for young investigators, and authored numerous papers in top journals.

At EMBO's Young Investigator program meetings, it facilitates extra rooms for mothers of babies or accompanying parents and will arrange babysitting services upon individual request, Wallon says.

If you divide this number by the number of clinical specialties, it becomes obvious why the competition for young physician - investigators with promise can be so fierce.

Next year, the ERC will launch its own young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for early career scientists.

Gaining independence as a postdoc is a critical factor for future academic success, and dedicated fellowships and junior investigator programs may help young scientists make the leap.

What drew these scientists to Maryland's Eastern Shore was the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Center for Cancer Research Fellows and Young Investigators (CCR - FYI) Third Annual Retreat.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are training grants designed to enable young investigators to qualify for independent careers in suicide research.

After all that travel, and yet some more, Bachtold, who this week was awarded a European Young Investigator award by the European Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF), is now enjoying the feeling of being in the right place for both his professional and personal life.

«Those young family years, it's a wonderful time, but at the same time for some people who are trying to get their careers started as independent clinical or translational investigators, that's a tough enough time as it is, while having other very important [family] responsibilities,» Garrett says.

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

- Young Investigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectInvestigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectinvestigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.

For Emiliani, who this week was awarded a European Young Investigator award, it was worth the wait.

For a young investigator, this provides an excellent opportunity to launch their independent, scientific endeavors without having to worry about the source of the next grant.

I could have continued at IMP for two more years but somehow I felt it was time for me to be subjected to the tribulations of a young investigator.

Its National Research Foundation, only eight years old, provides hefty fellowships to young investigators (up to US$ 3 million), as well as support for technology accelerators and startups.

These, she thinks, were instrumental in her receiving an EMBO Young Investigator Award, for which she had nominated herself.

Today, young investigators must utilize the usual R01 machinery to get funded — and that means that NIH has to make sure that the standard review process works well for this second tier of young investigators.

Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.

The scientific community has long considered single - investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding — but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for young investigators.

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From Advice for a Young Investigator

Its storied history includes its packaging for human trials of a failed cancer drug, azidothymidine (AZT), in the 1980s, after a young NIH investigator named Sam Broder — later director of the National Cancer Institute — decided to investigate whether it would work to treat AIDS.

«If indeed funding gets tighter in the U.S., India might be more attractive, but it would be a great leap for the typical American postdoc to move to India,» observes Ronald Vale of the University of California, San Francisco who spent a 9 - month sabbatical at the NCBS in 2007 - 08 and co-organized the Young Investigator Meeting, now in its 6th year.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

One of the founders of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he flashed a slide of his lab team and gave a warning: Because investigator - initiated grants have become impossible to get, he said, these young researchers don't have «much of a future.»

For most technical positions, this means that for a young scientist a 3 - 4 page CV is more likely to be the norm than a shortened resume (and we all know how long they can get for those senior investigatorFor most technical positions, this means that for a young scientist a 3 - 4 page CV is more likely to be the norm than a shortened resume (and we all know how long they can get for those senior investigatorfor a young scientist a 3 - 4 page CV is more likely to be the norm than a shortened resume (and we all know how long they can get for those senior investigatorfor those senior investigators).

The study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23 HD054720), Flora Family Foundation, UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award, Stanford University Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award and the Extraordinary Brain Series of the Dyslexia Foundation.

«This is the first study, we believe, to assess the impact of estrogen replacement on memory and other cognitive processes in young athletes who lose their periods due to excessive exercise,» said Charu Baskaran, MD, the study's lead investigator and a pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston.

They've called for programs to deploy research findings more rapidly and get young investigators interested in the nitty - gritty work of developing a new drug or treatment.

Until the 1960s, young scientists who chose to become postdocs (and most did not) stayed in that status for a year or two, then established themselves as independent investigators well before they left their 20s.

For example, EMBO, based in Heidelberg, Germany, offers networking and mentoring resources which can often mean more than the three - year $ 45,000 research award given to young investigators.

When separate analyses were performed for psychiatric disorders diagnosed during childhood (0 - 19 years) and in young adulthood (≥ 20 years), the investigators found that the risk estimates were not markedly changed, indicating that the increased risks persist into adulthood.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual research grants.»

In this regard, as NIH's acting deputy director for extramural research, Sally Rockey, describes it, young investigators often face a catch - 22.

Meanwhile, With queries postdocs and mentors about new initiatives using a listserv she developed; and Wiest turns to the CCR Fellows and Young Investigators for programmatic feedback and help planning the annual postdoc science retreat.

She received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the first President Bush in 1990 and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring from his son in 2004.

«Children or young adults may not be aware of having abnormal coronary vessels because their circulation is adequate until the heart is stressed by increased demands, for instance when participating in strenuous sports,» explains Lien, who is also an assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine and an investigator at the Cardiovascular Thoracic Institute, both at the University of Southern California.

The process of acquiring funding in the biomedical sciences is different for young investigators now than it was for Johnson in the 1970s, partly because of changes in NIH policy.

Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, pediatric surgeon and principal investigator at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, treats a large number of young patients who require surgery for various intestinal diseases.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on research.

«It's a tremendous leap of faith for young investigators to commit themselves to translational research.

Firstly, we fund scientific research in a truly global context in the form of grants for international collaborations between two to four labs in different countries (and with high priority given to teams on different continents), with both a special programme for Young Investigators and programme grants for scientists at any stage of their careers.

Using specimens collected annually in patients seen at Dr. Young's bone marrow failure clinic at the NIH Clinical Center, the investigators show that patients can support good blood cell production for many years from only a few stem cell clones, which can contain many unfavorable mutations.