Sentences with phrase «for federal research dollars»
The scientists claimed that, because they used adult stem cells exclusively in their research, the new rules would increase competition for federal research dollars, thereby affecting their ability to obtain funding.
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What do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research?
Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.
Based on the chart you have on Katusa Research of the U.S. dollar versus gold and in the wake of the Federal Reserve's inaction at its last meeting, what's your thesis for gold for the rest of 2015?
As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.
«The Government expects that Dr. Taub will testify that for many years he disapproved of [Silver's] law firm Weitz & Luxenberg because it made millions of dollars from representing mesothelioma victims (enough to buy «private jets»), and yet it did not donate money to support mesothelioma research,» federal prosecutors wrote in the new court papers, which were filed Monday.
They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»
When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»
Between 1986 and 1995, federal funding for biomedical research almost doubled, with half of those dollars allocated to academic research, and much of that portion allotted to medical schools.
DOD accounted for 12.3 % of the $ 40.1 billion in federal research dollars universities received in 2012, up from about 8 % a decade ago.
«It's important to have federal dollars in the game as a match,» says Thomas Van Arsdall, director of the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research.
Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.
Republican budgetmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives signaled their support for basic research and their reluctance to invest federal dollars in applied research today in their markup of a bill that would set the budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) next year.
Price also advocated streamlining the Food and Drug Administration's approval processes for new antibiotics and medical devices, and giving scientists more discretion in how federal research dollars are allocated.
Money can be spent immediately: Federal funding for non-defense research has fallen in real dollars every year since 2004 for the life sciences and far longer for the physical sciences.
In the end, George Bush tried to split the difference with a partial ban that limited the kinds of embryonic stem cell research that could be paid for with federal dollars.
That bill, based on one from Rep. Diana DeGette, D - Colo., would have allowed federal dollars to flow toward research on stem cell lines using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, slated for disposal and donated by the parents.
In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.
Maris Vinovskis calls attention to the misuse of the federal research dollar in education and the need for a basic restructuring of the federal research enterprise.
In last week's State of the Union address, Obama promised more federal research and development dollars to fund more efficient vehicles but again emphasized his goal for 1 million EVs on the road by 2015.
But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.
Though not exclusively an energy bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided for more than four billion dollars in federal tax credits to homeowners for energy efficiency improvements, authorized additional renewable energy and efficiency research and development, and called for reductions in diesel engine emissions.
These rights figure in the Bayh - Dole Act of 1980, which is intended to ensure that valuable inventions reach the public by allowing universities and other recipient of federal research dollars to apply for patents that protect resulting inventions, and provide incentives for their development.