Sentences with phrase «for research on»

This breakthrough research has been led by Dr. Chaekyu Kim of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who is now at UNIST, and Dr. Ok Hee Jeon of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in collaborations with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, the University Medical Center Groningen, Unity Biotechnology, Inc., and the University of California, Berkeley.

Using a novel approach, scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older adults.

Davis - Kean and colleagues Jacquelynne Eccles, also of the University of Michigan, and Miriam Linver of Columbia University presented their findings in a paper titled «Influences of Gender on Academic Achievement» at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in New Orleans on April 13.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

As a result, the code may present an overly negative view of researchers and discourage communities from participating in studies, says Charles Rotimi, founding director of the National Institutes of Health Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Before joining the Center, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Oregon Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, studying the links between exposure to environmental toxicants and cancer.

See M. M. Robinson, B. L. Yegidis, and J. Funk, Faculty in the Middle: The Effects of Family Caregiving in Universities, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Working Paper 296 (Wellesley, 1999).

«Being raised by a single parent really puts kids at a disadvantage in terms of resources that would be available to them,» said Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., co-author and senior investigator in NHGRI's Inherited Disease Research Branch and director of the trans - NIH Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH).

Researchers at Penn State University led by biologist Gong Chen have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury, and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers at Penn State University have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury, and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer's disease.

«We've long known that exposure to traditional forms of media, such as fashion magazines and television, is associated with the development of disordered eating and body image concerns, likely due to the positive portrayal of «thin» models and celebrities,» said lead author Jaime E. Sidani, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant director of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health.

«We make bad decisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like insulation.

This year's tranche consists of # 270 million for research on robotics, electric vehicle batteries, and drug manufacturing technology.

Likewise for the research on firearms: the majority of evidence clearly shows that more guns lead to more gun violence.

As a group, PCBs are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as known human carcinogens, and their manufacture was banned in the U.S. in 1979.

The World Health Organization based International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified UV - emitting tanning devices as «carcinogenic to humans» in 2009 (www.iarc.fr).

Eric Kandel, the avuncular regular on the Charlie Rose Brain Series, actually rode the back of Aplysia to a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research on the biochemical processes underlying memory.

«Even then, it is not one of the most dangerous mycotoxins for health and it is included in group 3 within the categories laid down by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),» Monsalud del Olmo pointed out.

Working in the lab of Salk's Fred Gage, the Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age - Related Neurodegenerative Disease, Narvaiza, Marchetto and their colleagues identified genes that are differentially expressed between iPSCs from humans and both chimpanzees and bonobos.

Dr. Garcia - Sastre directs the Icahn School of Medicine's Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis, one of five National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.

In accordance with that decision, the new guidelines would allow scientists to use NIH funds for research on cell lines isolated from embryos as long as the cells were derived by privately funded researchers who followed a set of ethical guidelines.

But yesterday health minister Tessa Jowell told the House of Commons that «more evidence is required» of the need for research on cloned human embryos and of its potential risks and benefits.

Although what drives this process has not been clear, studies have indicated that caspace - 2 might be involved, according to senior author Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD, the Delafield Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, chair of the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, and co-director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at CUMC.

«This suggests that refugee experiences in countries before coming to Canada are not conducive to good health,» said Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne, a researcher at St. Michael's Centre for Research on Inner City Health, who has a PhD in epidemiology.

Less than 1 % of research funding awarded by public and charitable bodies to UK researchers in 2008 - 13 was awarded for research on antibiotics, according to new research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Blasco is best known for her research on the enzymes that maintain telomeres — repetitive DNA sequences capping the chromosomes — and their role in cancer and aging.

This microorganism can therefore serve as a scientific model for the research on defects in these defense processes, opening the way to possible treatments.

The bill zeroes out a $ 118 million initiative for biofuels research, for example, and reduces the size of a program for research on fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops from $ 230 million a year to $ 200 million.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

Stuart Sutherland is director of the Centre for Research on Perception and Cognition, University of Sussex.

But his request for Congress to approve $ 10 million for research on several aspects of violence prevention — including a look at the effects of video games and media images — could face stiff resistance among advocates of gun ownership.

Young people across the United States who smoke electronic cigarettes are considerably more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes within a year than their peers who do not smoke e-cigarettes, according to an analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health (CRMTH) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

Engineer Daniel Sperling, of the University of California, Davis, joins the roster of Blue Planet laureates for research on the impact of transportation on the environment and pioneering studies leading toward more efficient and environmentally friendly transportation systems.

Workshop participants build an agenda for research on this oft - ignored bridge between mother and fetus

They say the new finding paves the way for research on how stereotypes may grow from the tiniest seeds into major misconceptions.

One example is this plea last fall for more funding for research on pediatric cancer.

• The DOI for the research on swine flu published in The Journal of the American Medical Association should have been: 10.1001 / jama.298.6.644 (9 May, p 4).

To be precise, Smith put a 2010 NSF grant to Bushman for research on self - control of aggression on a list of 11 NSF awards that Smith regards as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The brief also rebuts the argument by two researchers who filed the suit that the guidelines make it harder for them to win grants for research on adult stem cells.

Yodh directs the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Hauser is well - known for his research on the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals and has been an admired teacher and mentor, as well as the author of several popular books on animal behavior.

Professor Piddock and her colleague analysed funding databases for the UK's main research funding organisations [1], finding that of # 13 · 8 billion total available research funding, # 269 million (1 · 9 %) was awarded to bacteriology projects, and around a third of this (# 95 million or 0 · 7 % of total funding) was awarded for research on antibiotics.

Following the murders at Charlie Hebdo in January, the agency funded several new research projects on security and violence — for example, into new mathematical models for social interactions — and increased its support for research on human behavior, the Middle East, the Muslim world, and religions in general.

The new multi-locus metabarcoding method involves all three markers and could serve as a valuable tool for research on the native bee species that comprise local bee communities.

Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

The second body would be an advisory committee that includes expert members of the public, akin to bodies that already exist for research on human subjects.

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal.

Mrs Magali Redding, CEO of Eczema Outreach Scotland, added: «This is a fantastic step forward for research on eczema in children.

In January, President Clinton signalled a change in attitude towards the use of RU486 in the US when he signed an Executive Order calling for research on the drug.

But the measure faced potent opposition from antiabortion activists, the Catholic church and fiscal conservatives, because it would pay for research on discarded human embryos and increase the state's debt.